A common and real concern for startups and small businesses is balancing the business realities of building a sustainable enterprise with the necessary but sometimes difficult costs of registering your intellectual property, specifically your trademark…
Patent assertion entities have been making waves in the last few years. Though these entities are referred to in a wide variety of ways (patent assertion entities, non-practicing entities, etc.) and the actual definition is…
We have just launched our new website at www.ipnexus.com with new features and services. Our upgraded IP Exchange, matches intellectual property (IP) owners with buyers, licensees and their agents. With our new community features lawyers, brokers, finance and business…
Waseda Business School – Today CEO Hidero “Hidi” Niioka gave a talk at Professor Sean Hackett’s Strategy & Online Business class at Waseda Business School. After listening to a student presentation on the IP brokerage…
Last month, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, announced that the electric car company will be making Tesla patents available to other companies that want to use them. Specifically, he stated that “Tesla will…
The U.S. patent system is at a cross-roads. Despite helping to make the U.S. one of the most innovative and economically robust countries in the world, the system has been coming under increasing criticism for…
IP Nexus was featured as one of Hong Kong magazine’s promising new startups in an exclusive article published on their website on June 6th. Hong Kong startup creates first intellectual property marketplace in APAC It…
We are very pleased to have recently closed a successful seed-funding round raising approximately 900,000 USD with notable investors including a renowned venture capital fund, senior partners/leaders from the legal and finance sectors, and the…
We will soon be relaunching in beta as ipnexus.com. ‘Nexus’ meaning ’connection’, ‘link’ or ‘series of links’ reflects our vision of being the leading global marketplace for intellectual property. This name change will not in any way…
Hidero Niioka (CEO) and Jonathan Krueger (General Counsel) attended the 6th Global Sensory Branding Forum in Hong Kong on May 9th. The event was organized by the Cacht International Research Center for Senses and supported…
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