This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we are going to dive into the online gaming and game development world in a conversation about gaming, intellectual property, licensing, game development, branding and much more. Our conversation this week focuses on Spaceport Technologies, which is a technology company that enables brand owners to monetize their IP and game platforms to offer content creators the ability to license the use of those brands within their game environment. To do this Spaceport uses innovative technology that reduces transaction costs and allows for the monetization of intellectual property assets. In fact, through the use of Spaceport protocols and apps the acquisition of rights and payment for those rights through numerous small dollar value transactions is not just faster and easier, the deals actually become possible. 

So, with that backdrop, let me introduce our guests. First is Dan Temkin, who is General Counsel and Head of Intellectual Property for Spaceport Technologies. He began his career working for Procter & Gamble, where he spent nearly a decade. It was while he was at P&G that he became first introduced to intellectual property, telling me that as he worked with the IP attorneys, he came to the conclusion that what they were working on was “a lot more interesting” than what he was working on. Reaching that conclusion led him to Boston University for law school and ultimately a career in intellectual property law. 

Our second guest this week is Jay Kolbe, a co-founder of Impact Partners, which is a strategic communications firm that focuses on family offices, venture capital and startup founders. Jay is a specialist in marketing technology-focused PR. He develops influential communications programs that increase the valuation of the companies he advises. And in addition to working with Spaceport, Jay also works with Josh Harlan and Harlan Capital, who we spoke with several weeks ago about how they invest in and monetize recurring IP revenue streams.

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