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5 - Patent Privateering

The Rise of Hybrid Patent Assertion Entities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2017

D. Daniel Sokol
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University of Florida Levin College of Law
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Holmes v. Lerner, 88 Cal. Rptr. 2D 130 (1999).

26 I.R.C. §§ 368(a)(1)(A) (merger), (B) (stock acquisition), and (C) (asset acquisition).

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