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I’m in the process of organizing the corporate paperwork for Jack Polymath LLC. As part of that work, I compiled a list of the regular service providers for the business. These are the providers that “keep the lights on” for us. This does not include employee salaries, nor governmental taxes. It’s just a list of [...]

As in a lump of coal. That is, for people, silence may be golden. But for companies publishing the results of their business efforts, silence is a very bad sign. Take Ocean Tomo’s 2009 Spring Auction which it now calls “IP Market 2009“. That auction was held almost 5 weeks ago (on March 26-27). Yet [...]

In yesterday’s post, I noted that Ocean Tomo’s auctions seem to be fetching prices that are, on average, over 5 times less than what IPotential has been getting. At the end of that post, I ruminated on how this amazing discrepancy could exist. I concluded that the basic problem with Ocean Tomo’s approach lies with [...]

A couple of postings ago, I noted that I had attended the Theory and Practice of Patent Valuation conference in Berkeley last Friday. As I mentioned in that post, the conference seemed to be scattered, and I used that post to try to rationalize the proceedings. However, the biggest shortcoming of that conference wasn’t its [...]

The neat thing about truth is that when we hit upon one aspect of it, connections to other aspects become obvious. This is the essence of what we wrote on our company About page: Looked at close enough, and also from far back enough, everything is everything else This fuzzy philosophical idea becomes concrete when [...]

Two days ago, I attended the Theory and Practice of Patent Valuation conference held at the Bancroft Hotel in Berkeley, California. The conference was hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Although the conference was interesting, at first blush, it seemed to be a mish-mash of vaguely-related ideas. This post attempts to rationalize [...]

(NOTE: This post was originally created on May 5, 2008. It is just now being migrated to WordPress.) Recently, in some work in which I’m involved, it occurred to me that the “C” in CRUD can be critical to competitive advantage. This situation arises when you are starting up a new web 2.0-based business in [...]