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Article: Intellectual Property in Secured Transactions.
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 11, 2004
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Introduction
Many intellectual property lawyers believe that the entire subject of secured transactions1 does not concern them. Whether that was ever true, such a belief could be disastrous today. There has been a growing acknowledgement over the last few years among lenders and investment bankers that a company's intellectual property is often its most valuable asset. This is so not just for high tech companies with their portfolios of patents or computer software developers with software copyrights and patents, but equally for entertainment and publishing companies, whose copyrights are at the heart of their businesses. For consumer product companies -- ...