You Can’t Push a Rope or Legislate Innovation, So What Has Bayh-Dole Done For Me Lately?
Daniel I. Jamison IV As a practitioner of intellectual property based business development, I am a firm believer that “amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.” I recently attended the LES Spring Meeting in Boston (“IP for Entrepreneurs and Universities, Commercializing Early Stage Technologies”) where one of the plenary speakers opined that patents just aren’t that […]
The Technological Comparability Of Patent License Agreements
John Elmore You are a master at strategy. The cards in your hand show it. With a smile, you lay down your winning formula. “Gin!” you declare triumphantly. Your adversaries around the card table stare in disbelief. After a pause, one of them utters, ”But we’re playing poker, not gin rummy.
The Continued Evolution Of Patent Damages Law: Patent litigation trends 1995-2009 and the impact of recent court decisions on damages
Chris BarryAlex JohnstonRonen AradDavid StainbackLandan AnsellMike Arnold As the world’s largest corporations face increased threats of patent litigation from their competitors and from nonpracticing entities (NPEs), the debate over U.S. patent reform continues. In each of the last five Congressional sessions, variants of a Patent Reform Act have been introduced, yet none have become law. […]
Socially Responsible Licensing Of Health Technologies: Policy And Practice In South Africa
Rabogajane BusangKarine Boisjoly-LetourneauBernard FourieMichelle MulderHarry Thangaraj The objectives of Socially Responsible Licensing (SRL) are mainly to ensure that licensing of intellectual assets is negotiated and transacted in a manner conducive to providing access to essential medicines and other life enhancing innovations. The goals of SRL are to make available to society globally, but in particular […]
Rules Of The Road: Valuing Commercialized Software-Based Technology
David DrewsDwight Olson Companies that develop and own software often have the need to communicate the business value of their software in a meaningful way. The question “what’s your software worth” often arises in many different contexts, such as when acquirers/investors are interested in assessing their options, licensees desire a reasonable exclusive royalty/license price, or […]
Propagating Green Technology: A Japan Intellectual Property Association Proposal
Naoto KujiCynthia Cannady This article describes a new voluntary licensing initiative for sustainable energy and environmental technologies launched by the Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA). 1. The program is called the Green Technology Package Program (GTPP). Its objective is international dissemination and implementation of sustainable energy and environmental technologies (“green technologies”). 2. Green technology is […]
Profit And Common Good: Friend Or Foe In Technology Transfer?
Lukas Madl Many Technology Transfer Organizations have been implemented around the world in recent years. What is their purpose? Usually a dual scope is defined, namely to increase economic value and social value by ensuring the fullest use of the R&D results. This raises some essential questions. Does society per se benefit from an accelerated […]
Patent Application Prioritization And Resource Allocation Strategy
Kelce S. WilsonClaudia Tapia Garcia A single page, poster style chart accompanies this article, and provides an “at-a-glance” overview of a suggested strategy for prioritizing patent application efforts and resources. The chart, along with this explanation, incorporates the philosophy that a one-size-fits-all process for protecting Intellectual Property (IP) is far from ideal. Instead, what is […]
Invention Licensing Agreement: Belarusian Version
Darya LandoVeranika Shypits Making a license agreement for an invention allows the patentee not only to exercise his exclusive rights to this subject of industrial property, but also to find an optimal way of profit earning. In the Republic of Belarus any natural or legal person interested in use of the invention must conclude an […]
Intangible Assets Valuation By License Market And Stock Market: Cross-Industry Analysis based on Royalty Rate and Tobin’s q
Jiaqing “Jack” Lu There has been no previous research on the link between the license market and the stock market. Are the two markets integrated or coupled such that the valuation of the same portfolio of intangible assets is consistent across markets? This study tries to fill the research gap. Based on the data of […]
