2. Topics for today
Using online platform to promote Patent Sales
Cross Border Tech Transfer Models & Issues
3. What TYNAX does
TYNAX operates a global
exchange for patents and
technologies
TYNAX helps buyers find
IP assets to purchase or
license.
TYNAX helps sellers find
IP licensing or acquisition
prospects.
4. The IP and tech commercialization market
today is fragmented and local in nature
Geographical and industry
barriers have meant that
the IP commercialization
market has been very
inefficient.
There has been no good way
to connect buyers and
sellers.
With the TYNAX
infrastructure, buyers and
sellers around the world can
now connect and transact
business..
5. TYNAX is a truly global marketplace for
technology and IP, connecting buyers,
sellers and brokers around the world
Participants in the
network:
•IP brokers worldwide
•Fortune 500
corporations
•R&D organizations
•Universities
•Independent developers
6. …and reach a global market of buyers and
sellers
Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm, Sweden
Oslo, Norway
Boston, MA
London, UK Munich, Germany
New York, NY Berlin, Germany
Paris, France
Washington, DC Prague, Czechoslovakia
Toronto— Moscow, Russia
Chicago & Great Lakes
Shanghai, China
Seattle
—Portland & Vancouver Beijing, China
Hong Kong
Silicon Valley
—San Jose, San Francisco Taipei, Taiwan
Phoenix, AZ Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, Korea
San Diego—LA
Austin—Houston, Dallas Singapore
Delhi, India Sydney, Australia
Bombay, India
Bangalore, India
7. TYNAX reaches customers through multi-
channel distribution
Reach Global Audience
Alerts Emailed to Individuals Tracking this Topic
Displayed on Tynax Website
Post Listing Tynax Exchange Displayed on Tynax Partner Websites
Embedded in RSS Newsfeeds
Circulated to Tynax Partners Worldwide
13. MISCONCEPTION
ONLINE PLATFORM for displaying listing
Not a platform for conducting transaction
Direct interface between buyers and sellers
with Tynax partners managing the processes:
- NDA
- Information exchange and all communications.
- Price negotiation & LOI
- Due Diligence progress and monitoring lawyers
communications.
14. UNIQUE FEATURES OF TYNAX
Advanced Search Capability
- Search by patent classes
SELL SIDE:
Clients with large patent portfolio for sale
- Use our database to manage their patents
- Free up their staff having to catelog
their patent database.
15. UNIQUE FEATURES OF TYNAX
BUYSIDE requirements
- Arms length intermediary
- Willful infringement is a big issue.
- Confidentiality/ Stay Anonymous
- Bring in other brokers.
Account managers for large companies with
specific needs
- We understand their requirements
- Shorten search cycle and sourced patents more
efficiently.
16. Tynax Experience in Patent Sales
- Transact hundreds of patents annually.
- Active in hot technology areas
- Wireless
- Mobile
- LED
- Green tech: Energy savings, Energy
conversion.
17. TECH TRANSFER CLIENTS PROFILE
PROFILE OF CANDIDATES MAKING TECH
ACQUISITION:
1.Company with Related Technology/Business.
- Tech Transfer less challenging
- Quick business ramp up.
- Bolster IP position in Market
2.Start-ups
- Technology is compatible with their technology
development
- Potential to save major 1-2 years development
cycle.
18. TECH TRANSFER CLIENT PROFILE
3. Competitor
- Acquires technology and IP to strengthen
market/ patent position.
- Independent broker role crucial.
4. PE funds.
- Will fund start-ups/ management team
- Exit thru IPO or trade sale
- Combo.
19. CROSS BORDER TECH TRANSFER
China
- Many buyers unwilling to sign NDA
- Lots of MNC which are public listed company
require NDA
- Tech Transfer presents difficulties with work
structure, besides language.
SEA
- IP acquisition confined to Tech Acquisition
- Undervalues the underlying patents protecting
the technology
20. CROSS BORDER TECH TRANSFER
TAIWAN
- Companies has monetized their investment
thru patent portfolio sales
- ITRI is a great example
- Both sell and buy side activity
S KOREA
- Active on buy & sell side
- Experienced in Tech acquisition
- Emulated Japan in tech acquisitions
JAPAN
- Matured market like U.S., less litigation.
21. Patent Sale/Tech Transfer Process
• Indication of • Sign NDA
Interest • Exclude other
• Letter of Intent buyers
• Info exchange • Initial DD
• Price Nego • 1-4wks from
• Sign PPA initiation
• Due Diligence • 2-4 wks from
• Tech Transfer initiation
commences • 4-8 weeks.
• Deal consumated • 6-9 months from
init.