Mei-Hsin Wang
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Patent securitization is a form of intellectual property-based assets securitization which started in United States in the 1970s. The earliest cases of intellectual property securitization involved copyrights in the musical and digital-rights fields by entertainers, such as David Bowie, James Brown, Ashford & Simpson, the Isely Brothers, and Iron Maiden. Other examples include the Italian film maker- Cecchi Gori (securitization of future movie income in 1999), fashion designer Bill Blass (trademark securitization) and Formula 1 (securitization of trade mark, copyright and royalties).
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