> "All IP (trademarks, copyright, patents) from one of the two merged companies gets released to the public" This sounds very extreme to me, sometimes acquisit

> "All IP (trademarks, copyright, patents) from one of the two merged companies gets released to the public" This sounds very extreme to me, sometimes acquisitions are done exactly because the buyer is interested in the other company's IP. This would be a showstopper even in the cases where the buyer really wants to use the IP it is going to aquire.