Later this month, Competitive Technologies Inc will start marketing technologies covered by 280 IBM Corp-owned patents. Competitive was initially called in by IBM last year to review its vast patent portfolio and look for things that were exploitable and no longer central to IBM’s core business. Competitive will soon begin to approach prospective licensees or buyers for the patents. All forms of technology transfer are to be considered – exclusive and non- exclusive licenses, sale, joint venture, new company start-up and enforcement. The 280 patent dockets are covered by 900 US and foreign counterpart patents and break down into 20 technology and market areas which we have grouped into 60 packages of technology-related patent dockets the firm said.
