Legal Opinion
Ocean Tomo, LLC v. PatentRatings, LLC
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 14, 2017No. 12 C 8450PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
■ Memorandum Opinion and Order
Honorable Thomas M. Durkin, United States District Judge
Jonathan Barney, through his company PatentRatings, LLC, .created, patented, and developed software for analyzing and evaluating patents. Ocean Tomo, L.LC, provides financial services related to intellectual property, including patent ana-lytics. In 2004, the parties reached an agreement that provided for (1) licensing PatentRatings’s software to Ocean Tomo; (2) giving Ocean Tomo an ownership interest in ‘ PatentRatings; -and (3) giving Barney an ownership interest in, and a management position with, Ocean…
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