Quoted in Bloomberg “AT&T-Uber Patent Sale Caps Off Q1 Brokered Market Deals”

“Software patents are still in the basement only because of the fear of invalidity,” Mark Holmes, chief executive of Silicon Valley-based patent brokerage firm PatentBridge, said.

However, application software patents related to cybersecurity, the internet of things and self-driving cars are “very hot,” Holmes said. “If you have something that fills the need of a large company, they have the appetite for it.”