PricewaterhouseCoopers Patent and Trademark Damages Study 2005
Aron LevkoPartner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chicago, USA Vincent TorresManager, Advisory Services Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chicago, USA Intellectual property litigation continues without relent. In light of global competition shorter product life cycles and easier access to information patents and trademarks are now among the few remaining barriers of entry to companies seeking to differentiate a product in […]
Hong Kong’s Role in Structuring a Successful International License Agreement Between China and the Rest of the World
Alice NganDirector of the Research and Technology Office of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Kenneth R. AllenPartner, Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, USA Daz WongPartner Insight Intellectual Property Limited, China China has undergone drastic economic transformation since 1978. In the past it was regarded as merely a place for cheap labor. A lot […]
Calculation of Compensation According to License Analogy
Heinz GoddarPatent Attorney, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, Munich, Germany At the time when the mode of calculation termed license analogy was introduced in German legal practice intensive discussions immediately set in as to the ratio something else than 1:1. which should be applied between the royalty rate payable by a condemned patent infringer in accordance with […]
Risks To And Precautions Available To Patent Licensees In China If The Licensor Is Bankrupted
Jaing XunMingLecturer, Department of Intellectual Property, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, Peoples Republic of China Zhu XueZhong, PhDProfessor and Director, Department of Intellectual Property, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, Peoples Republic of China The proportion of patented technologies as intangible assets possessed by enterprises is rapidly increasing […]
CFI Opens The Door To Justifying Restrictions On Parallel Trade
Alec BurnsideLinklaters, Brussels, Belgium On 27 September 2006, the European Court of First Instance (CFI) partially annulled the European Commission Decision condemning GlaxoSmithKline’s policy of charging higher prices for Spanish products destined for export. The judgement marks another step in the pro¬longed debate between antitrust authorities and pharmaceutical companies on the legitimacy of inhibiting parallel […]
Patents As Assets And Liabilities: Patents Can Serve Various Purposes
Francis HagelIntellectual Property Manager, Compagnie Generale de Geophysique, Massy, France The current trend of characterising patents as assets entails a risk: when considering the economic aspects of patents it tends to restrict the scope of analysis to the patent rights owned by the company and their valuation. However for a company which owns and exploits […]
Value And Quality Based Patent Portfolio Management
Dieter F. ReinhardtFormer Head of Corporate Licensing Center, Siemens AG, Munchen, Germany Alexander J. WurzerManaging Director, PATEV GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, and Visiting Professor, CEIPI, Centre of Intellectual Property Studies in Europe, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg, and Director, Steinbeis-Transfer-Institution for Intellectual Property Management, Steinbeis Univeristy, Berlin Patents have taken over additionally to their original […]
Licensing To Promote Global Health Partnerships
Tari SupraptoPhD, Assistant Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. The Global Forum for Health Research (www.globalforumhealth.org) recently published a two volume report titled Global Forum Update on Research for Health 2005. In summary this report showed that there is a disparity in the research effort to improve healthcare between developed […]
Rembrandts In The Attic, Toys In The Attic, Or Clowns In A Volkswagen?
Daniel I. Jamison IVSenior Director, IP Business Development, Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Woburn, M.A., U.S.A. One current corporate practice is to develop a business model (or business unit) around your company’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. The literature and press over the last decade has posited some divergent views of the strategic, tactical, and operational methodologies required […]
U.S./Canadian Licensing In 2005 – Survey Results
Richard RazgaitisSenior Advisor, CRA International Inc. and President, Licensing Foundation The data reported here are from the third annual survey of the licensing industry of the United States and Canada taken by the Licensing Foundation in cooperation with LES (USA & Canada). The ambitious reference to the licensing industry is however confined to the perspective […]
