{"id":25232,"date":"2017-12-11T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/?p=25232"},"modified":"2017-12-11T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:19:15","slug":"mergers-acquisitions-typically-good-indicators-growth-can-create-unique-challenges-intellectual-property-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/blog\/mergers-acquisitions-typically-good-indicators-growth-can-create-unique-challenges-intellectual-property-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"When Two Become One: IP In The  Age Of Mergers &amp; Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When working in the intellectual property department of a corporation and specifically for those that handle the prosecution of a portfolio, the announcement of a merger or acquisition can create all sorts of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>First, there\u2019s the emotion of uncertainty and not knowing what\u2019s going on. Eventually, you start to think about all the work associated with getting the IP portfolio ready to go or ready to integrate into your own company\u2019s portfolio. It can be overwhelming to consider the amount of work that is about to follow.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of activities included in an IP due diligence. What we\u2019re focusing on in this article are those elevated activities that are administrative, very time consuming and require a team of people dedicated to the effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/info.clarivate.com\/_Verify?cn=IP Management Whitepaper - Mergers &amp; Acquisitions &amp;cid=70139000001&amp;doc=https:\/\/clarivate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/When-Two-Become-One-IP-In-The-Age-of-MADec.pdf&amp;desc=IP Management Mergers &amp; Acquisitions&amp;ls=Clarivate Blog&amp;product=The IP Management System - Mergers &amp; Acquisitions&amp;sbu=IP Solutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"ext-gen580\" class=\"text-entry \" data-entrytype=\"comment\" data-entryid=\"274367722\">Click here to download the whitepaper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is how to handle them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,444,446],"class_list":["post-25232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-derwent","tag-ip-payment-service","tag-the-ip-management-system"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":25232},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}