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josh lerner

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Boom and Bust in the Venture Industry: The dotcom bubble of the late 90s and the subsequent crash of the public markets have had far-reaching consequences for the venture capital industry worldwide. This article briefly examines whether this can be prevented from happening again? In this extract from The Money of Invention Paul A Gompers and Josh...; Tags: Investment, venture capital, dot-com, industry; White papers 2003-03-26
Patent Evaluation Goes Public: Inventions today are more complicated than ever, which makes it hard to judge the quality of new patents and relatively easy to get protection for half-baked ideas. Sooner or later, those half-baked inventions become the subject of bank-breaking litigation, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently said that needs to stop....; Tags: Litigation, patent evaluation, Andrew Hines, patent office, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent; Blog posts 2007-06-06
Are Private Equity Buyouts the Devil's Work?: Private equity deals have always had a bad rap. The naysayers argue that PE-driven leveraged buyouts of public companies lose money for investors, victimize employees, lead to massive job cuts, and pretty much steal money from orphans and widows when given half a chance....; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sean Silverthorne, private equity, Josh Lerner; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Patent Sharks: Technology firms face a serious menace: patent sharks. These predators collect patents through acquisitions in bankruptcy proceedings, licensing agreements, or their own R&D efforts. They hide their intellectual property--to deliberately trap tech firms into inadvertent patent...; Tags: Joachim Henkel, Markus Reitzig, patent, NTP, R&D, patent infringement, mobile e-mail, licensing agreement, bankruptcy, leadership, intellectual property, environment, acquisition, knowledge, mobile, industry; Articles 2008-07-01