Royalty Rates & License Fees For Technology
Russell L. ParrIPRA, Inc., President, Yardley, PA, USA The focus of this article is on the compensation terms in technology license agreements. Specially discussed are royalty rates and upfront license fees. Royalty rates permeate many aspects of business beyond the completion of licensing transactions. They are also often used in technology valuation assignments where a […]
Licenses As Critical Sources Of Innovation
Viktor BraunVisiting Scholar at MIT, Sloan School of Management, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Currently Düsseldorf, Germany In financially and economically unstable times, when stock markets become rollercoasters, apparent safe-havens such as mortgage lenders or re-insurance companies tumble and fall like cardboard houses, and economies across the world are on the brink of falling into […]
U.S./Canadian Licensing In 2007-08: Survey Results
Louis P. BernemanTexelerate, LLC, President , Philadelphia, PA, USA Iain CockburnSchool of Management, Boston University, Professor, Boston, MA, USA Ajay AgrawalRotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Peter Monk Professor of Entrepreneurship, Toronto, Canada Shankar IyerCornerstone Research, Senior Manager, Washington, D.C., USA Initial Results of a Survey Conducted in Spring 2008 by The Licensing Foundation […]
Book Review Trade Secrets: Law And Practice General Editors: David W. Quinto and Stuart H. Singer, Oxford University Press Inc. 2009
John T. RamsayQ.C., Partner, Gowling LaFleur Henderson, LLP Barristers & Solicitors, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Although the stated emphasis of this book is trade secret litigation, it is an excellent resource for the non-litigation lawyer, as well as individuals charged with managing their company’s trade secrets. It is a very readable book with many checklists and […]
Software & Valuation In The Information Society Part Three: The Software Inventory Valuation—TSV (OV)
Dwight OlsonCLP, LESI Copyright Committee, V3Data, Principal, San Diego, CA, USA Software based intellectual assets are known in the computer industry as the software inventory. This software inventory could be considered to include both Intellectual Property (IP) and Intellectual Assets (IA). Like Vertex of Canada one could consider traditional IP to comprise just patents, trademarks, […]
Basis Of Damage Awards In Trademark Cases
Gauri Prakash-CanjelsARPC, Vice President, Washington, D.C., USA Kristen HamiltonFormerly of Analysis Research Planning Corporation (ARPC) There have been some significant damage awards in patent and trademark litigations over the last twenty years. The largest patent damage award to this date is the 1990 award in Polariod Corporation v. Eastman Kodak Company, which was for more […]
Still A Long Way To Value-Based Patent Valuation The Patent Valuation Practices Of Europe’s Top 500
Martin A. BaderBGW AG Management Advisory Group, St. Gallen-Vienna, Managing Partner, Rorschach am Bodensee, Switzerland Frauke RüetherInstitute of Technology Management, University of St. Gallen Research Associate St. Gallen, Switzerland Innovations and patents make important contributions towards corporate success. A survey on the top 500 patent applicants of the European Patent Office on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers […]
From Traditional Tech Licensing To Entrepreneurial Tech Commercialization
Norris F. KruegerMax Planck Institute for Economics, Entrepreneurship Northwest External Research Fellow (MPI); Founder (EN), Boise, Idaho, USA Brian A. CummingsUniversity of Utah, Executive Director, Technology Commercialization, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Steven P. NicholsCockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Chair of Free Enterprise, Austin, TX, USA + university […]
Licenses As Critical Sources Of Innovation Part 3: Technological Revolutions & Implications
Viktor BraunVisiting Scholar at MIT, Sloan School of Management, Attorney and Counselor at Law, currently Düsseldorf, Germany There is something inherently comforting and yet bewildering in the cyclical flux of the seasons. The often sublime shifts from the blossoms of spring to the light and warmth of summer to the beautiful decay of fall influence […]
Overview Of The Implications Of The Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. Decision On The Drafting Of License Agreements From A Canadian Perspective
Francois PainchaudLéger Robic Richard, L.L.P., FP Partner/Lawyer, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Claire CébronLéger Robic Richard, L.L.P., CC Lawyer, Montreal, Quebec, Canada On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a much awaited decision (the “Quanta decision”) which clarified the uncertainty surrounding the application of the doctrine of patent exhaustion in the United States (which essentially […]
