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Intellectual Property Valuation Approaches And Methods

Robert F. ReillyCPA Managing Director, Willamette Management Associates, Chicago, IL, USA There are numerous reasons to value an owner/operator’s intellectual property. All of these reasons may be generally grouped into the following categories: transactions, financings, taxation, regulatory, bankruptcy, accounting, litigation, and strategic planning. Valuation analysts are often asked to value intellectual property for these various […]

Recent Entire Market Value Rule Opinions Impact Patent Valuation

Drew VothGrant Thornton, LLP, Director, Seattle, WA, USA David H. BinneyK & L Gates, LLP, Partner, Seattle, WA, USA Mega-damages jury awards in patent infringement cases are piling up: Lucent is awarded $358 million in a matter against Microsoft and others; Uniloc is awarded $388 million in a matter against Microsoft; Cornell University is awarded […]

Drafting Of Royalty Clauses: 30 Ways To Head For Windfall Or Pitfall

Erik VerbraekenIFP Energies, Nouvelles, Associate Director, Contracts Division, Rueil-Malmaison, France After a lengthy and difficult commercial negotiation, licensor and licensee have finally succeeded in finding an agreement. They have agreed on the business principles that are to govern the exclusive license that the licensor will grant to the licensee with respect to a very promising […]

The Classic 25% Rule And The Art Of Intellectual Property Licensing

Robert GoldscheiderThe International Technology Network, Chairman, Delray Beach, Florida, USA Fifty years ago, Robert Goldscheider helped pioneer the use of a methodology known as “the 25% Rule,” a tool for determining reasonable royalties in intellectual property licensing negotiations. The Rule holds that licensees of intellectual property normally deserve the lion’s share of the profit because […]

Students from Lund University, Sweden Win $5,000 Global Award from the Licensing Executives Society International

Student Start-Up ShieldHeart Invents Device to Minimize Deadly Complications Associated with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Systems    LONDON, June 7, 2011– Student entrepreneurs from Lund University, Sweden received the $5,000 Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Global Award for their start-up company, ShieldHeart which has developed a protection device technology platform to ‘shield’ vital organs, blood vessels and […]

FEDERAL CIRCUIT REJECTS USE OF 25% RULE OF THUMB

FEDERAL CIRCUIT REJECTS USE OF 25% RULE OF THUMB by Russell Levine (Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP) Note: The views expressed herein are Mr Levine’s personal views and should not be attributed to Kirkland & Ellis LLP nor any of its clients.             On January 4, 2011, the United States Court […]

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