Intellectual Property Assets in Mergers and Acquisitions

In mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property assets can be especially difficult to accurately value, most notably in rapidly evolving high-tech industries. Understanding the factors that create value in intellectual property assets, and the part such assets play in both domestic and international mergers, is vitally important to anyone involved in the merger and acquisition process. This book provides an overview of the intellectual property landscape in mergers and acquisitions and thoroughly covers important topics from financial and accounting concerns to due diligence and transfer issues.

Bringing together some of the leading economists, valuation experts, lawyers, and accountants in the area of intellectual property, this helpful guide acts as an advisor to business professionals and their counsel who need answers for intellectual property questions. The valuation methods presented here are simple and don’t require a background in finance. Whether you’re a manager or executive, an accountant or an appraiser, Intellectual Property Assets in Mergers and Acquisitions offers all the expert help you need to better understand the issues and the risks in intellectual property assets in mergers and acquisitions.

Customer Reviews:

Review #1: good but expensive book
2009-01-17
The book is a collection of articles by different authors. Most are good. Found the article about "International Mergers / Canadian Prespective" silly, as it is hard to consider Canada as "International". Many of these articles are available for free on the Internet, but if you dont have time to search, the book is a good instant collection of useful articles.

Since the publisher could not bother to put in a table of contents or exerpt, which is how you sell books like this, (note to author, find a new, smarter, technology savy publisher for your IP TECHNOLOGY book) here it is:

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: AN OVERVIEW (Patrick A. Gaughan, Ph.D., College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Economatrix Research Associates, Inc.)
THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (Robert Boyden Lamb, New York University, Stern Graduate School of Business)
INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACCOMPANYING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (Gordon V. Smith, AUS Consultants)
VALUATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (Michael J. Lasinski, INTECAP, Inc.)
ACCOUNTING FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DURING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (Andrew W. Carter, INTECAP, Inc.)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASPECTS OF ACQUISITIONS (Glenn A. Gundersen, Dechert)
U.S. ANTITRUST AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (Thomas G. Jackson, Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon, LLP)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TECHNOLOGY DUE DILIGENCE IN BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS (Sheldon Burshtein, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, DUE DILIGENCE, AND SECURITY INTEREST ISSUES IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (Melvin Simensky, Visiting Scholar in Intellectual Property Law, New York Law School; William M. Heberer, Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood, LLP)
PATENT OPINIONS (David A. Loewenstein, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP)
INTERNATIONAL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE (Francois Painchaud, Louis-Pierre Gravelle, Panagiota Koutsogiannis, Christian Danis, and Matie-Eve Cote, Leger Robic Richard)
INTERNATIONAL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE (Benedict Bird, Anna Carboni, and Deborah Lincoln, Linklaters & Alliance)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFERS TO HOLDING COMPANIES (Susan Barbier Montgomery and Leonard Schneidman, Foley Hoag & Eliot, LLP)
OFFSHORE CORPORATIONS (Tira Greene, Consultant, Anguilla; Michael J. Ward, Counsel Limited, Anguilla)
ACQUISITION AND LICENSING OF FAMOUS NAME TRADEMARKS AND RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY IN THE UNITED STATES (Theodore C. Max, Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon, LLP)
TRANSFER OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY UPON MERGER OR ACQUISITION (Lanning G. Bryer and Scott J. Lebson, Ladas & Parry).