{"id":264,"date":"2011-01-28T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2011-01-28T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:35:30","slug":"ma-evaluating-a-target-with-ip-rights-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/ip\/copyrights\/ma-evaluating-a-target-with-ip-rights-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;A: Evaluating a Target with IP Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">David Drews, CLP (IPmetrics LLC) has an upcoming publication which will cover this topic, among other related intellectual property issues. <\/span><\/span><\/address>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The publication will address one of the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">pr<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;\">imary vehicles used by companies interested in growth: the acquisition of or merger with a separate company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;\">In more and more instances, the decision to go ahead in M&amp;As hinges on the intellectual property (&#8220;IP&#8221;) that the target company owns or controls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">In this publication, David Drews will explore the impact that intellectual property as an asset class has on M&amp;A activity, the various forms of intellectual property that may be important or attractive to an acquirer, and the methods necessary for properly evaluating a takeover or merger target.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\">You can subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">IPmetrics Blog RSS<\/a> feed to keep abreast of additional articles in this series.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Drews, CLP (IPmetrics LLC) has an upcoming publication which will cover this topic, among other related intellectual property issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,11,12,14,16,17,19,20,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-4g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}