... 2001in IP-re-lated payments, most of it cash, and nearly all of it pure profit. Canon,Hitachi, Lucent and many other top patent holders enjoy significant re-turns on their R&D investments. ... clear understand-ing of “the currency of the New Economy” by systematically explain-ing the essential legal elements and business value of each type of IP,with useful suggestions of how to acquire, ... notice of the demise of any of the IP (patent expi-ration or obsolescence, trade secret loss through disclosure or independ-ent reinvention). Rather, it implicitly assumes that the pool of intellectual...