Ocean Tomo LLC

Ocean Tomo is an intellectual property merchant bank that provides financial products and services, including expert testimony, valuation, research, ratings, investments, risk management, and transactions. They are headquartered in Chicago, IL, USA. They also have offices in Greenwich, Orange County, San Francisco and Houston. Subsidiaries include Ocean Tomo Risk Management, LLC, Ocean Tomo Asset Management, LLC, OTI Data Networks, LLC, Patent Marking, LLC, and Ocean Tomo Capital, LLC. In addition, Ocean Tomo is the founder of the Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI). Their current CEO is James E. Malackowski,^[1][2]

Practice Groups

Ocean Tomo has five main practice groups which include Expert Services (Financial Testimony, Valuation & Surveys), Research (Ocean Tomo PatentRatings system, PatentMarking, and OTI.com), Investments (Asset Management, Ocean Tomo Indexes & Investment Banking), Risk Management, and Transactions.^[3]

Auctions

Ocean Tomo introduced the world's first public auctions of patents, trademarks and copyrights.^[4] The auctions have also included business method patents,^[5] and the rights to Jimi Hendrix's music recordings.

Intellectual Property Stock Index

Ocean Tomo has also pioneered the first stock index based on corporations whose overall market value is in large part due to the value of their patent portfolios. The index is called the "Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index".^[6] The index starts with the 1,000 most liquid securities on U.S. exchanges. Patent-owning companies in this group are divided into 50 style and size groups and ranked by patent value (divined by OT's proprietary system) divided by book value. The six highest ranking securities in each group are selected and weighted by market capitalization. The ranking system assumes that the patent's value is related to its owner's willingness to pay patent maintenance fees. The system reviews 53 factors in a patent document to estimate whether a patent would be renewed.^[7][8] An ETF based on this index trades on AMEX.

References

1. ^ James E. Malackowski | Ocean Tomo
2. ^ "Ocean Tomo". http://www.oceantomo.com/. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
3. ^ Products & Services | Ocean Tomo
4. ^ Ocean Tomo IP Auctions
5. ^ "Going Going Gone" Insurance IP Bulletin October 15, 2006
6. ^ Ocean Tomo 300(tm) Patent Index
7. ^ Sipress, Alan (2007-05-06). "Ocean Tomo Catches the Wave in Valuing Intellectual Property". Washington Post. pp. F03. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050402691.html. Retrieved 2008-12-10. 
8. ^ Method and system for rating patents and other intangible assets. 2003-4-29. 

External links

• Ocean Tomo home page