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Join the leaders of the Deep-Tech Licensing Industry and benefit from access to the industry’s deal flow pipeline, the world’s largest licensing database, and an opportunity to network, and discuss global policy coordination, for the success of your licensing programs.

TIP-X is Now Live

After a successful pilot phase, TIP-X has now come out of stealth mode and is live! Over the past six months, TIP-X was supported by 25 well-known organizations, and received tremendous input that helped shape and optimize the service offerings to make them practical and useful. The initial members were a mix of large Operating Companies, Licensing Organizations, Law Firms, Service Providers and Funders from the US, Europe and Asia.

TIP-X Solutions

Deal Pipeline

TIP-X gives you exclusive access to emerging licensing deals, off-market opportunities, and helps you forge partnerships to maximize your IP’s value while reducing costs.

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Licensing Database

Our comprehensive licensing database, built on 11 years of research and proprietary analysis, offers unparalleled insights to guide your entire licensing lifecycle and evidence to empower your decision-making.
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Industry Networking

TIP-X brings together industry leaders, innovators, and experts to address challenges in the Deep Tech Licensing sector, fostering knowledge exchange for a more efficient technology ecosystem for all.

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Deal Pipeline

Unlock untapped potential and streamline your licensing strategy. As a TIP-X member, you gain members-only access to a curated pipeline of emerging licensing opportunities not always found in the public domain. We proactively identify promising cross-industry and off-market deals and provide all available data for each deal, empowering you to forge strategic partnerships, uncover new licensing prospects, and reduce transaction costs.

Our live Deal Pipeline enables swift engagement with potential partners and early access to transactions spanning licensing programs, license-grade IP assets, M&A opportunities, financings, and insight into relevant bankruptcies globally. Whether you seek to acquire, divest, or collaborate – TIP-X empowers you with the information and connections to achieve your licensing goals.

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Licensing Database

Enhance your decision-making with the industry’s most 
comprehensive licensing database.
Access a wealth of information, including detailed transaction data (M&A, financings, restructurings), non-confidential royalty rates, market trends, competitive landscapes, litigation settlements, cross-licenses, and more.

Leverage these insights to conduct in-depth research, create customized analytics, and negotiate from a position of strength. Our impactful technology and industry reports provide a comprehensive view of the market, empowering you to make informed decisions with confidence.

We built a proprietary database over the past 11 years including research and analysis on just under 1,000 projects that provides unparalleled insights for each stage of the Licensing Program Lifecycle.

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Industry Networking

Connect with the brightest minds shaping the future of deep-
technology licensing. TIP-X brings together an exclusive network of industry leaders, innovators, investors, and experts to address the most pressing challenges and explore transformative opportunities within the Deep Tech Licensing Industry.

By fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration, we empower our members to network, access industry expertise, and collectively drive a shared public policy agenda for the growth and efficiency of the entire licensing ecosystem.

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Frequently Asked Question

What our clients mostly ask about.

TIP-X is a membership-based organization, and our aim is to promote a healthy licensing ecosystem by empowering organizations to get access to more relevant commercial opportunities, have good licensing-related data at their fingertips, and can connect and organize as a standalone industry – the “Deep Tech Licensing Industry”. Members come from a variety of backgrounds – Fortune 25 Operating Companies, Licensing Entities, Funders and Investors, Universities, Service Providers, SMEs and Start-ups.

Driven by industry demand, in early 2024 we launched a “pilot” with a dozen diverse of organizations, including a global mix of leading Fortune 500 technology companies, public and private licensing entities, funders, patent pools, attorneys and consultancies, all contributing to a vibrant ecosystem.

Our formal launch is at IPBC San Francisco in June 2024, and all organizations involved in “healthy” technology and patent licensing ecosystem are invited to join, including SMEs, startups, universities, research organizations and service providers.  Organizations who take aggressive anti-patent positions and systematically refuse to engage in reasonable licensing discussions with professionals, as well as “patent trolls” who abuse the procedural aspects of the patent system with weak patents are outside of our membership target.

If you are interested in joining TIP-X, all you need to do is contact us, discuss options, and sign the Membership Subscription Agreement.

All our member organizations enjoy all the privileges of membership. We offer free membership for startups, universities, and nonprofits, and discounts for SMEs and select service providers. Contact us for more information and to organize a “try-before-you-join” setup.

Leadership Team

We are a team of seasoned business, engineering, IP, and legal experts with hundreds of executed IP deals.​

Lea-Marija Bevanda

Operations Analyst

Elvir Causevic​

Co-Founder

Chuck Fish

Senior Vice President 

Ed Fish​

Co-Founder

Haris Hadziabdic

Chief Technology Officer

Indira Habibovic

Tech Lead

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Leadership Member

Lea-Marija Bevanda

Operations Analyst

Ms. Lea-Marija Bevanda is an Operations Analyst at Tech+IP Exchange. Before joining Tech+IP, Ms. Bevanda worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Proventis Partners GmbH (now atares GmbH) in Munich, Germany.

Ms. Bevanda completed her studies at the University of Sarajevo, at the School of Economics and Business, majoring in Finance. She holds a MSc degree in Financial Management.

Leadership Member

Elvir Causevic

Co-Founder

Elvir Causevic is co-founder and Managing Director of Tech+IP Capital, which recently spun out of Houlihan Lokey to empower clients with additional tools to help them realize tangible value from intangible assets. He is a recognized technology and intellectual property (IP) investment banking professional focused on public and private board advisory, M&A, capital formation, and financial restructuring of technology and IP businesses. He was recently named by his peers in the IP field as a “Top 40 IP Dealmaker” by IAM in 2019, one of the most prestigious recognitions in the industry. Most recently Elvir was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Tech+IP Advisory Group at Holihan Lokey, a leading global investment bank (NYSE:HLI), and before that was founder and CEO of BSIP LLC, a boutique investment bank focused on valuing and trading Tech+IP assets, and advising global technology clients on IP licensing, litigation, and transaction related matters, which was acquired by Houlihan Lokey in 2017. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Ocean Tomo IP consultancy Strategic Advisory Services practice, and served as an expert witness on issues relating to patent infringement, licensing, financial restructuring, investment and a variety of economic damages issues. Prior to Ocean Tomo, over the past 20 years, Dr. Causevic founded and ran several high technology companies focused on signal acquisition, processing and communication hardware and software. He raised over $50 million in premier venture capital for his businesses and technology products, two of which were ultimately acquired by Fortune 500 companies (Thermo Electron/Viasys and Stryker Medical). He originated and negotiated a series of complex license and technology transfer agreements as both principal and outside advisor. Dr. Causevic is a named inventor on over 25 patents and patent applications, as well an author of numerous scientific and IP publications. He served as an independent technical and economic damages expert in patent litigation, arbitration, and U.S. PTO proceedings, and has advised leading patent pools and technology companies on licensing matters, FRAND, standard essential and implementation patents. Dr. Causevic began his academic teaching career as a J.W. Gibbs Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Yale University, followed by other academic appointments in business, economics and engineering programs globally. Dr. Causevic holds B.S., M.S. and Doctor of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and a J.D. degree from UC College of the Law, San Francisco, with formal training in accounting, economics and finance.

Leadership Member

Chuck Fish

SVP

Chuck Fish is a seasoned intellectual property and legal executive with 25 years of experience in IP creation, management, licensing, valuation, counseling, and litigation.

As a principal at Ronin IP Mr. Fish has assisted a variety of SMEs with contentious and cooperative IP creation, assertion and valuation matters. Before that as VP and Chief Patent Counsel at Kudelski Group, a leading independent supplier to the pay TV industry and licensor of intellectual property, Mr. Fish focused on patent strategy, portfolio development, standards activities and complex IP-related licensing, litigation and M&A. Over his career as an IP executive, Chuck has successfully negotiated and closed deals with U.S., European, Asian and Middle Eastern companies in excess of $500M and managed large scale, multi-jurisdictional patent litigation and licensing activities.

Before joining the Kudelski Group, Mr. Fish served as VP and Chief Patent Counsel at Time Warner Inc., where he was responsible for all patent management functions, licensing, litigation, and deals including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures (such as the co-investment with Microsoft in the DRM company ContentGuard) for seven divisions (each a Fortune 500 company if standing alone: AOL, HBO, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Turner Broadcasting / CNN, Warner Bros., Warner Music). He earlier served as VP and Sector IP Law Director at Motorola, Chief Patent Counsel at General Instrument Corp., and a patent attorney at Sony Corporation, and with premier IP law firm practice groups including Chadbourne & Park, Perkins Coie and Morgan Finnegan.

Mr. Fish is a named inventor on over 10 US patents and published applications. He earned a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, and subsequently served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, mainly in the Western Pacific. He earned a J.D. cum laude from Wayne State University, is a registered patent attorney and member of the NY bar, and speaks regularly on patent and legal topics, including having testified before Congress.

Leadership Member

Ed Fish

Co-Founder

Ed Fish is co-founder and Managing Director of Tech+IP Capital, which recently spun out of Houlihan Lokey to empower clients with additional tools to help them realize tangible value from intangible assets.

A recognized global leader in building and realizing value from innovation and intellectual property, Mr. Fish’s 30-year career includes experience as an Investment Banker, Technology Company Executive and Board member, Entrepreneur, Inventor and IP Attorney.

Most recently Mr. Fish was Managing Director and Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Tech+IP Advisory practice, where he specialized in IP and Advanced Technology transactions, and strategic and Board advisory work, helping clients conduct over a $1BN in IP-related transactions. Previously, Mr. Fish was a Senior Managing Director at BSIP, LLC, a boutique investment bank focused on valuing and trading IP, which was acquired by Houlihan Lokey in January 2017. In addition, Mr. Fish has served as a board member and President at digital rights management and IP licensing pioneer InterTrust Technologies Corp (NAS: ITRU; IPO 1999; sold to Sony/Philips for $453 million in 2003); as President and CEO at social education company ePals Corp. (now Cricket Media, TSX:CKT). At the height of the internet boom he served as a Senior Vice President, Premium Services, and Senior Vice President, Instant Messaging, at AOL, where he ran both AIM and ICQ with over 100 million monthly users, a global leader at the time. At AOL he also managed/launched more than a dozen services in the Digital Music (AOL MusicNet, MusicNow and Winamp), Education (Step By Step Math, Study Buddy) and Security/PC Management spaces, as these businesses created entirely new products and technologies. Mr. Fish’s experience in private and public market fund raising, includes assisting his own Companies with raising over $US300M and IPOs and follow-on offerings in the US and Canada.

Earlier in his career, Fish practiced law in the New York and Silicon Valley offices of international law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he specialized in patent/IP transactions. After law school he served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Howard Markey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court that exclusively hears all patent appeals in the United States. Mr. Fish earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University and a J.D. magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Wayne State University. He is a registered patent attorney and is FINRA registered (Series 79, 63, and SIE).

Mr. Fish is a named inventor on 33 issued US patents (and many more pending) in such diverse fields as presence and instant messaging, social networking, online gaming, mobile computing, search, and collaborative learning. Many of those patents are fundamental to those areas, and are now assigned to, among others, AOL, Facebook, Google, and Cricket Media

Leadership Member

Haris Hadziabdic

CTO

Mr. Haris Hadziabdic is a seasoned intellectual property expert with over a decade of experience in technical analysis of patents, managing extensive patent portfolios, and advising Fortune 500 companies on patent trading and technology strategies to maximize their investment value across a wide range of industries.

Previously, Mr. Hadziabdic served as a Senior Patent Engineer at Rimac Group, where he provided comprehensive technical and legal support across multiple business units, including Rimac Technology, Rimac Energy, and Bugatti-Rimac. He collaborated with inventors from diverse departments to capture and protect innovative ideas in areas such as renewable energy, energy storage systems, automotive battery systems, powertrains, ADAS, vehicle engineering, and autonomous driving.

In addition to his role at Rimac Group, Mr. Hadziabdic served as a Senior Data Analyst at Atlantbh, where he leveraged large datasets to drive business solutions. He also worked as the Head of Patent Analytics at BSIP, where he managed a team of eight engineers and oversaw the analysis of extensive patent portfolios.

Mr. Hadziabdic is a certified patent agent and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sarajevo. He is also a named inventor on three patent applications.

Leadership Member

Indira Habibovic

Tech Lead

Ms. Indira Habibovic is a Technical Expert at Tech+IP Advisory. Before joining Tech+IP, Ms. Habibovic worked as a Senior Engineer with BSIP and on an exclusive consultant team for Houlihan Lokey’s Tech+IP Group.

Before BSIP, Ms. Habibovic worked both as an academic researcher and lecturer with a specialization in telecommunications. Before that she spent several years as a telecommunications Engineer.

Ms. Habibovic is currently pursuing a PhD in the field of telecommunications and holds a MSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Sarajevo. While in University, Indira was selected as a guest lecturer at several universities. She also kept busy managing a telecommunications lab while continuously growing her body of published scientific papers and books in the field of telecommunications.

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