Selling or auctioning off patents is fairly common in the IP world (my wife is an IP Lawyer). In fact, if a company goes bankrupt, but has some good patents or technology, those patents often end up being sold though legal proceedings to pay off creditors.
Thanks, Chauncey On 10/17/07, MJ Broadbent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Saw the headline below yesterday and thought I'd share. Kind of > trippy; had never thought that intellectual property would/could be > auctioned in this way! Particularly UI stuff. Hmmmm, weird. Anybody > aware of this sort of thing? Thoughts/comments? > > CHICAGO, Oct. 16, 2007 (Business Wire) -- Ocean Tomo Auctions, LLC > today announced it will sell several Lots relating to User Interface > Technology and Digital Media Systems & Management at The Ocean Tomo > Fall 2007 Live Intellectual Property Auction on October 25th at The > Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. > > Catalog: > < http://69.59.189.170/Auction/Catalogue/OTA_Catalogue_Lot.asp? > eventid=42007 > > > FAQ: > < http://www.oceantomo.com/auctions_FAQ.html > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
