Assetless by Design: When a Funder’s Security Becomes the Claimant’s Problem A patent claimant pledged its patents, its licenses and every dollar those patents might ever earn to the funder paying for the case. The Unified Patent Court read the pledge, called the company “basically assetless in an economical sense,” and ordered it to produce […]
The Patent Platform Turn: How Families Beat Single Cases Funders moved from single patents to families and licensing campaigns, and the strategy is genuinely better than what I bought as a retail investor. But the thing that actually repriced patent assets over the last eighteen months wasn’t strategy at all. It was a screen at […]
The VC Myth, Debunked: Why Patent Funders Aren’t VCs A defence firm says patent funders bankroll junk in the hope one case pays for everything. A funder’s general counsel says the arithmetic makes that impossible. I rebuilt his model and it reconciles to the dollar — so he wins. Then I read what he deliberately […]
LexShares Case #644: The Passport Patent Payday An inventor’s RFID technology ended up in every US electronic passport. After 9 years of litigation, the government finally paid. The Numbers Invested $25,000 Returned $45,897 Net Profit $20,897 MOIC 1.84x IRR 9.43% Holding Period 2,458 days The Case In the mid-2000s, an inventor developed technology for securely […]
