IP-backed securitisation goldmine or hype

Anyone familiar with the IP-value conference circuit will by now have heardabout intellectual property-backed securitisation. Coming at a time when manycompanies are facing liquidity squeezes, attention has been focused on thepreviously untapped value residing in intangible assets and the ways in whichthese assets can be used to plug into readily available asset-backed debtfunding. By Nigel Page