Prickly profits

Last month’s IP Investor focused onthe double standard applied topersons who deploy intangibles likepatents for profit, as opposed toinvestors who deal in hard assets.The net-net: real estate moguls arecapitalists; aggressive exploiters ofIP are anti-competitive. The followingare insights from prominent patentowners, managers and advisersabout the IP double standard andwhat can be done to mitigate it