Media Releases & Coverage

5 Jul 2010 | Sun & Wind Energy (excerpt p. 136 - 141)

Rapid layer exchange

It would be a great leap forward for Si thin film if the Ti-MILE technology could be brought to industrial maturity. The Hamburg-based technology development company IPB AG has taken up a method that for several decades has been known under the name ALILE (aluminium-induced layer exchange). It could replace tempering (annealing), which the PV industry regards as problematic in economic terms.
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14 Apr 2010 | IAM magazine

Intangible assets in capital markets

The large investment bank Deutsche Bank (DB), however, announced publicly that it is currently managing three IP funds totalling more than €150 million invested in IP assets. Partnering with IP Bewertungs AG, DB has identified and purchased IP assets for further legal and commercial refinement to be sold and/or licensed.
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30 Dec 2009 | Kunststoffe international

Mirrors for Electromagnetic Waves

The patent-pending material combination from the inventor group headed by Prof. Martin Koch was honored at the beginning of the year with the Patent Award, the Prize of the Future, by the IP Bewertungs AG (IPB). The inventors look forward to working with partners from the plastics industry who are interested in marketing
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20 Feb 2009 | Financial Times

Put your mind to intellectual matters

More and more IP auctions are springing up globally, run by the likes of Ocean Toto, Iceberg Transactions and IP Bewertungs. Companies, it seems, are rationalising their inventory of patents, and using the auctions to make money by flogging off the ideas they can’t afford to develop further.
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27 Jun 2008 | Nano Science and Technology Institute

IP Profile: Polymerelectronics: Next generation of production method

The overview of the IP describes the second production generation of polymer electronics. With this technology, it is possible to generate very small structures of conductive polymer as a basis for organic electronics with high performance, which is necessary for RFID-tags, e-paper, displays and low-cost-electronics.
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27 May 2008 | iam Magazine

Mixed views on German patent investment funds

[IPB AG‘s] business model is based on the acquisition of patent rights which it believes underpin technologies that industry is looking for – primarily in areas such as biotechnology, renewables, electronics and medical devices.
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9 Apr 2008 | German-Finnish commerce (Finnish)

Polymerelectronics: Next generation of production method

Patentin hyödyntämisrahstot väloportaana innovaatio - ja pääomamarkkinoiden välillä
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19 Feb 2008 | Medical News made in North Germany

Value from knowledge

In view of these large quantities of excellent innovations and knowledge transfer, one of Europe's leading consulting firms for intellectual property services, IP Bewertungs AG (IPB), expands into this growing market.
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1 Jul 2007 | Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management

The monetization of intellectual property

Guido von Scheffer, Stephan Lipfert and Juliane Ostler at IP Bewertungs AG (IPB) discuss how IP is turning from collateral into a separately tradable asset.
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21 Jul 2006 | by Shigeki Kamiyama, Jerry Sheehan and Catalina Martinez (OECD) as a STI Working Paper 2006/05 of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Valuation and exploration of intellectual property

As firms shift to more open models of innovation based on collaboration and external sourcing of knowledge, they are exploiting their intellectual property, notably patents, not only by incorporating protected inventions into new products, processes and services, but also by licensing them to other firms or public research organisations (PROs), using them as bargaining chips in negotiations with other firms, and as a means of attracting external financing from banks, venture capitalists and other sources.
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1 Apr 2006 | by Jerry Sheehan, Catalina Martinez, Shigeki Kamiyama (OECD), Dominique Guellec, Tilo Bachmann, Giovanna Oddo (EPO) and Thomas Zuleger and Thomas Multhaup (BMWA) as Summary Report of the OECD-EPO-BMWA-Conference on June 30 / July 01, 2005 in Berlin (Germ

Intellectual Property as an economic asset: Key issues in exploration an valuation

This report summarises the main conclusions and discussions held at the International Conference on "Intellectual Property as an Economic Asset: Key issues in Valuation and Exploitation" organised in Berlin on 30 June and 1 July 2005 by the European Patent Office (EPO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour (BMWA).
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1 Dec 2005 | by Stephan Lipfert and Guido von Scheffer; this article originally appeared in issue 15 of IAM magazine, December 2005 / January 2006, published by Globe White Page, London (www.iam-magazine.com)

Europe's First Patent Value Fund

Funds that invest in patent portfolios are not common anywhere. In Europe, however, they are unknown. Until now, that is. IP Bewertungs AG pays to take a share of patent portfolios in the hope of securing lucrative deals that will see their overall value increase.
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1 Aug 2005 | by Dirk Loop, Stephan Lipfert and Guido von Scheffer; this article originally appeared in WIPO SMEs NEWSLETTER, August 2005

Case Studies: Patent Valuation at IP Bewertungs AG (IPB)

For many years patents had only been a topic of interest to scientists, inventors and patent lawyers. Today, a wide range of companies have become aware of the importance of patents as key business assets. They are also beginning to take a closer look at the monetary value and economic use of patents. Today, patents can also be used as collaterals for financial transactions or as assets for alternative investments.
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1 Feb 2005 | by Guido von Scheffer, Dirk Loop and Stephan Lipfert; this article originally appeared in issue 110 of IAM magazine, February / March 2005, published by Globe White Page, London (www.iam-magazine.com)

From Patents to Finance

Traditionally it has been difficult to obtain cost-effective and reliable valuations of patents and patent portfolios. A new approach may just change this and bring major benefits to companies both large an small.
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1 Jan 2000 | Siemens ippress