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Monetizing & Managing Your Patent Portfolio: PT 1	Topic: Intellectual Property
Intellectual property has become a key corporate asset. As with any asset, its value comes from the returns you can expect when putting it to work. Unlike most assets, however, patents and other intellectual property are created by the constitution and legislature and their fundamental value comes...

Eight Potential Pitfalls of Merger Transactions	Topic: Mergers and Acquistions
A merger is a corporate transaction negotiated by two or more corporations which is effectuated in accordance with state statutory law and consummated by the adoption by each corporation of a plan of merger and the filing of certain documents with state officials.

The Basics of M&A Due Diligence	Topic: Mergers and Acquistions
In advising companies that are acquisition candidates, two of the questions that I most frequently receive are: 1. What should I expect from the due diligence process? and 2. How can I best protect my confidential information while still moving the process forward? Of course, the due diligence proce...

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Blocking Strategies for Intellectual Property
Vincent Brault
CPA North America

BDA: Vincent, please give us an overview of CPA North America.

Mr. Brault: CPA is the leading provider of intellectual property services serving the legal community; has been in business for almost 40 years and serves 40,000 customers. Today we have 1,100 staff in 16 offices. We specialize in outsourced legal services including Intellectual Property, Litigation Support, and Contract Management solutions. CPA initially built the business around the management of IP maintenance fees for a mix of corporations and law firms. Around 2000, CPA began actively diversifying offering software to manage Intellectual Property portfolios for both law firms and corporations. CPA further broadened its product portfolio offering other capabilities such as patent searching, patent analytics, and Legal Process Outsourcing both in Intellectual Property (proofreading, illustration, docketing, and paralegal work), litigation support and contract management. Our solutions help our clients realize profitable revenue through cost reduction, increased capacity, and risk management. More....

Estimating Damages of Patent Infringement