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MDB awards Kopin with “Bright Lights Award”
Kopin was one of the companies to receive a CLARUS Award for technology leadership and obtaining one of the highest number of granted patents.
MDB Capital Group, Wall Street's only IP Investment Bank, has announced the winners of its 2nd annual Bright Lights Innovation Awards held during the Bright Lights Conference at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City on May 10-11, 2011.
Chosen from 40 of MDB Capital Group's "Best and Brightest" small-cap companies, the award-winning companies represent IP leaders based a number of variables including, patent applications, patent novelty, quality, and impact and other factors as identified by MDB Capital's PatentVest, a proprietary IP business intelligence platform.
Kopin Corporation was one of the companies to receive a CLARUS Award for technology leadership and achieved one of the highest Tech Scores and number of patent grants.
Bright Lights is one of the only conferences with an exclusive focus on companies possessing disruptive and market changing IP, providing institutional investors a venue to discover the largely unrecognized value of embedded IP.
Bright Lights is showcasing approximately 40 public companies ranking in the 90th percentile for their respective technology leadership from more than 1,500 small-cap companies with granted U.S. patents, as rated by PatentVest.
In addition to company presentations, IP industry thought-leaders are leading Bright Lights sessions, providing insightful analysis and discussions on innovation and IP monetisation topics during this invitation-only event.
Keynote speakers include:
David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Paul Ryan, CEO of Acacia Research, one of Wall Street's largest IP holders and licensing companies
Marshall Phelps, author, IP Hall of Fame member and former Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft
John Cronin, CEO & Founder of ipCapital Group, one of the foremost experts on IP development and licensing and former head of the IBM Patent Factory
