Article: Stock index gauges value of companies' patents

BY JON VAN, MC CLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
11-16-2006

Stock index gauges value of companies' patents
BY JON VAN, MC CLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Date: 11-16-2006, Thursday
Section: BUSINESS
Edtion: All Editions

CHICAGO — The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 make up an exclusive club, one the Ocean Tomo 300 patent index wants to join.

Launched last month by Ocean Tomo, a Chicago-based intellectual property firm, the new stock index consists of 300 diverse companies that Ocean Tomo ranks as having the strongest patent portfolios going.

The firm believes an information-based economy needs a way for people to make investment decisions based upon ...

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