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 […]
Washington University-St. Louis Student Wins the 2011 LES Foundation International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition in London
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 […]
LESI European Committee Patqual-Report: Study on the quality of the patent system in Europe
LES submission to the Public Consultation on the possible revision of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC
LES submission to the Public Consultation on the possible revision of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC
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 […]
Graduate Student Business Plan Competition, 2010
Winners of LES Foundation’s 2010 Business Plan Competition ring closing bell at Nasdaq The Graduate Student Business Plan Competition was created in 2004 by LES Foundation, an initiative of LES USA/Canada. In 2008, through partnership with LESI, the competition grew quickly and became global. Today, the Competition has a reputation for being a world-class event emphasizing […]
New IPR survey by DG Trade
After similar exercises in 2003 and 2006* the Commission recently launched a new survey regarding IPR protection and enforcement in third countries (relevant from a EU trade policy perspective), targeting in the first place EU companies established or operating in third countries. The survey can be accessed at http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=IPRsurvey2010. The replies to this survey will be […]
Certified Licensing ProfessionalTM (CLP) Board of Governors to Offer Limited “Grandfathering” Period
ntroduced in 2007, the CLP certification is a professional credentialing program intended to recognize those who have demonstrated experience, proficiency, knowledge and exposure to licensing, technology transfer, or commercialization of intellectual property through involvement in patenting, marketing, valuation, IP law, negotiation, and intellectual asset management. Nearly 800 individuals have earned the CLP certification. In 2007, a […]
