Patents as Collateral Assets in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis
Abstract
In this paper, the practice of using patents as collateral for debt has been studied. To this aim, the USPTO Patent Assignment database has been used and all the patents that reported the “security interest agreement” type of conveyance, registered in the 2007-2010 years, have been extracted. The final dataset is made up of a total of 8,818 security interest agreement records, in which 133,110 patents are pledged as collateral for debt. Nearly...
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Patents as Collateral Assets in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
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