Blue Capital's original plan, drawing on Colony's expertise, was to make a one-off profit by having Carrefour sell all or part of its propertyportfolio.
If Google's acquisition of Motorola was indeed priced solely on a cost-per-patent basis, as looks likely, it would set a benchmark for valuing an intellectual propertyportfolio.
The former prime minister and his wife have paid? 975000 in cash for a maisonette in west London for their 22-year-old daughter Kathryn bringing the family propertyportfolio to nine homes.