By Cate M. Elsten and Nick Hill The “Intangible Asset Market Value” (IAMV) study conducted by the authors examines the components of market value, and specifically the role intangible assets play in corporate market capitalizations across a range of indexes around the world. We believe IAMV is a strong reflection
By John Walker The theme of the LES (Australia/New Zealand) Annual Conference in May 2016 was “Creation to Commercial—Disruption and Opportunities.” In keeping with that theme, a presentation was made “Disruption in the IP Services Industry?” The “?” in this title essentially asks the question “Is There Disruption in the
By Deepa Ravindranath The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is growing quickly. Artificial intelligence startups raised $5B in 2016, a 10-fold increase since 2012. Tech giants (Google, Microsoft, IBM) are contributing heavily to this acceleration, both in academic and practical pursuits. Google published 218 papers on machine learning in 2016, nearly
By Brian Dies and Joel Wacek Damages experts in patent litigation have been applying an economic model based on the work of Dr. Abhinay Muthoo1 to determine reasonable royalty rates through a profit sharing formula based on relative corporate discount rates.2 The work of Dr. Muthoo has been oversimplified and
By Joseph A. Alfred Steve Jobs and Apple introduced the iPhone, the first smartphone, in January 2007, and a waiting world was introduced to incredible volume both in standards and in patents. Global data usage now exceeds one billion gigabytes a month and half of all mobile devices are smartphones.
By Erik Verbraeken It has been quite some time that I have not updated the “Exhaustion Theory Is Not Yet Exhausted” series. In the latest edition stemming from March 2014, the focus was laid on several U.S. decisions where the IP right holder contested that he had consented to a
By Madelein Kleyn South Africa does not invest in procuring accurate statistics on small businesses in South Africa, making it difficult to find the exact number of companies that operate in the country. SEDA issued a broad statistical overview of the SMEs of South Africa in January 2016 and presented
Jack LuIP Market Advisory Partners (IPMAP), LLC. This essay presents the most recent results from an ongoing research project that collects and analyzes the market prices of patent portfolio transactions. The project was initially launched in 2012 as part of the efforts to better understand the pricing behavior of the
Kuok Teong OngWashington State University Aishwarya SathyanarayanUniversity of Minnesota The passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 has given universities and research institutes the right to retain titles to inventions resulting from federally sponsored research. As a result, many universities and research institutes have enhanced their capacity to effectively conduct
Terry LudlowChipworks Michael SpenceChipworks What are the factors that influence patent value? They fall into three areas: legal, technical, and market.
