"Secured financing in intellectual property is a rapidly evolving area of the law as intellectual property becomes the core asset in many industries. Secured Lending in Intellectual Property, 2nd Edition serves as a guide to best practices in this financing segment by examining the commercial and legal context of intellectual property in commercial transactions as well as financing vehicles and procedures, and the associated commercial and legal risks. The scope of this new edition has been significantly expanded and revised to cover all types of intellectual property, including copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and domain names...The scope of this second edition has been significantly expanded and revised to include the extensive number of decisions that have been released since 2006 as well as a more comprehensive review of the 2009 amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act that relate to intellectual property."-- Résumé de l'éditeur.

For 20 years, Asset-Based Lending: A Practical Guide to Secured Financing has been a model of clear, sensible, step-by-step coverage of the techniques, documents, risks, and protections at the heart of this complex specialty.

The overall objective of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (the Guide) is to promote low-cost credit by enhancing the availability of secured credit. In line with this objective, the Supplement on Security Rights in Intellectual Property (the Supplement) is intended to make credit more available and at a lower cost to intellectual property owners and other intellectual property rights holders, thus enhancing the value of intellectual property rights as security for credit. The Supplement, however, seeks to achieve that objective without interfering with fundamental policies of law relating to intellectual property.

The "Model Law" deals with security interests in all types of tangible and intangible movable property, such as goods, receivables, bank accounts, negotiable instruments, negotiable documents,

The Global Innovation Index 2020 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 131 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The 2020 edition sheds light on the state of innovation financing by investigating the evolution of financing mechanisms for entrepreneurs and other innovators, and by pointing to progress and remaining challenges – including in the context of the economic slowdown induced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis.

We study bank portfolio allocations during the transition of the real sector to a knowledge economy in which firms use less tangible capital and invest more in intangible assets. We show that, as firms shift toward intangible assets that have lower collateral values, banks reallocate their portfolios away from commercial loans toward other assets, primarily residential real estate loans and liquid assets. This effect is more pronounced for large and less well capitalized banks and is robust to controlling for real estate loan demand. Our results suggest that increased firm investment in intangible assets can explain up to 20% of bank portfolio reallocation from commercial to residential lending over the last four decades.

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