World’s #1 IP Dealmaker You Haven't Heard of...Yet
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English - March 10, 2023 09:45 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsBusiness News Tech News intellectualproperty patenteligibility patents patentsystem Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If you’ve come across a national news story about some brash character making lots of money from patent deals, chances are that the person making those deals happen behind the scenes was an unassuming lawyer in Israel. Her name is Lillian Shaked.
On this episode, Lillian tells the story of how she went from being a commercial attorney in Israel to working with who’s who of patent monetization legends around the world and likely working on more major patent deals than any other attorney in the world. Lillian also talks about her relatively recent transition from being the lawyer to acquiring and monetizing the patents herself. This is likely only the beginning of that story….
In this episode, Eli & Lillian discuss:
How moving from Canada to Israel set her apart as Israel’s high tech sector boomed
How Lillian made a patent transaction career from one patent deal
Working with Erich Spangenberg
Advantage of working from Israel on American patent deals
Importance of ongoing, positive relationships between parties involved in patent transactions
Monetization strategies based on reasonableness of infringers/potential licensees
Impact of course correction in patent market after the boom years in the early 2000s
Rise of litigation funding
Why patent litigation funding companies moved from taking passive role to taking active role
How and why patent litigators prevent win-win outcomes
Terms to avoid in patent deals
Why and how deals fall apart
Importance of momentum for patent transactions
Why the BlackBerry patent deal fell apart
Transitioning from handling the transactions as a lawyer to acquiring patents from beginning
Advice for building valuable patent portfolios
Efforts to shame patent assertion entities
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