IP Broker/Auction House

Quoted: Ocean Tomo, the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm, was established in 2003. The firm specializes in understanding and leveraging intellectual property assets and provides IP-related M&A advisory, valuations, expert services, analytics and auction services.

A listing of my 4 issued patents.

Quoted: Michael C. Koss - Patented inventions by inventor Michael C. Koss

It looks like I was granted a new patent in August - for my Location Based Browser patent I filed for Microsoft. What I don't understand is why there are two patents filed with the same disclosure. The claims are slightly different between the two. Perhaps they wanted to re-write the claims and split out the original filiing into two (but were able to keep the original priority date based on my disclosure).

Quoted: Google Spreadsheets have their roots in the technology of 2Web Technologies, who developed an application called XL2Web. In June of last year, an

Nathan Myhvold's patent licensing company.

This actually could be a trend that helps the little guys actually make some money from their patents, as opposed to being intimidated by the giants.

Quoted: Don't blame Nathan Myhrvold for taking advantage of the culture of rampant patent litigation in this country. He is only doing what large ...

I want a T-Shirt that says:

"I am my own Lexicographer."

Quoted: APPLICANT MAY BE OWN LEXICOGRAPHER

Searching the Google Patent database, it appears that this was the first patent FILED (March 1985) and ISSUED (May 1986) to Microsoft.

Among the inventors - Steve Ballmer!

The patent covers the packaging Microsoft used in some of their earlier products - a clam-shell acrylic box that would hinge open to become a stand for the manual that was shipped with the software.

I still have some of these in my basement.

My patent (assigned to Microsoft) on using GPS data to augment a web browser request. This patent took 6 years(!) to issue (filed in 1998 and issued in 2004).

I'm not aware of any products using this now. The invention uses a new HTTP request header to send the user's GPS location. A GPS-aware server, can then respond with geo-targeted results AND provide a geo-graphic "expiration" zone (the comapatible browser will re-fresh automatically when the user leaves the valid zone).