Intangible Assets continue to be the greatest asset to today’s companies. Ocean Tomo, an Intellectual Property merchant bank, have released their 2015 Intangible Asset Market Value Study which values the S&P 500’s Intangible Assets at 84% of total value. This value represents 4% growth from 2005, 16% from 1995 and a staggering 52% growth from 1985. These figures highlight the importance of Intangible Assets. To compete in today’s global market, you must be actively develop

Ireland recently became the latest European Union (EU) country to adopt the “Knowledge Development Box” (known as “patent box” in other countries) income-based tax structure for intellectual properties. Thanks to the plan, companies that hold intellectual properties, such as patents, in Ireland will receive tax breaks on income earned from said intangible asset. Compared to the U.S., the savings could be substantial. Ireland is considering reducing their already low corpora

Excellent article from The Wall Street Journal explaining how new patent laws will make it tougher to receive software patents and how creators may look to other intellectual property's such as trademarks and trade secrets. These are hard times for software patents. Months after the Supreme Court ruled on whether—and when—computer programs can qualify for intellectual-property protection, software patents have been dropping like flies. Reports WSJ’s Ashby Jones: Since the cou

Recently, Facebook announced an agreement to purchase virtual reality (VR) startup Oculus VR for $2 billion. In less than two years, the Oculus VR headset had gone from founder Palmer Luckey’s prototype to Kickstarter darling to being purchased by Facebook. How does a company that’s less than two years old, with less than one hundred employees and no retail consumer product garner $2 billion from Facebook? Intellectual Property/Intangible Assets. Like many other tech comp

Square Inc., owner of the credit card payment system adapted to use on smart phone devices, is being rumored for acquisition by a number of large tech suitors such as Google, Apple, and eBay’s PayPal according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. The company has grown rapidly since its inception in 2009 with card processing rates of $20 billion in 2013 and 2014 projections growing to $30 billion. Valuation of the company is estimated at $5.2 billion based on insiders so