By: Andrew Henderson
As the tech industry has grown and software has begun to “eat the world”, a new knowledge economy has taken shape that values intellectual property (trademarks, patents, and ideas) more highly than old-school equipment in factories.
As knowledge businesses have grown, so too has the value of their intellectual property (IP). Companies now routinely buy, sell, trade, and litigate over patents and stuff so seemingly minute that the average person struggles to understand how the ability to pinch two fingers together on a mobile phone could be patentable in the first place.
International companies are well-known for using offshore holding companies to house much of this intellectual property. This, in turn, leads solo entrepreneurs to ask themselves if they need a similar structure as well.
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