Patents.com to be Auctioned. ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces for Auction the Domain Name WWW.PATENTS.COM

San Francisco - (June 27, 2012): ICAP Patent Brokerage, a division of ICAP plc and the world’s largest intellectual property brokerage firm and organizer of ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions, is offering for auction the domain patents.com. The lot being sold by Patents.com LLC will be included in the 16th ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on July 26, 2012, at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The starting bid will be $2,500,000.00

 

 

This asset for sale provides a unique opportunity to own one of the most valuable domainsnames on the web. The prices paid for domain names have risen steadily as the worldwide usage of the internet has grown exponentially. Comparable recent domain name sales include insure.com ($16m), diamond.com ($7.5m), toys.com ($5.1m), and fund.com ($10m). For a full list of the highest domain sales visit: http://www.domaining.com/topsales. Internet users searched on Google for “patent” 6.1m times per month; this is the premier domain name for the most valuable category of intellectual property.

 

Contact Clay Becker of ICAP Patent Brokerage at 561-797-1161 or via email at clay.becker@us.icap.com.

 

ICAP Patent Brokerage is a division of ICAP plc and the world’s largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm. 

 

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