Measuring Marketing: Using Content Analysis To Evaluate Relative Value In Valuation And Reasonable Royalty Analysis
By DeForest McDuff and Daryl Fairweather In valuation and reasonable royalty analysis, economic experts often seek to measure the contribution of a technology to a particular product sold in the marketplace. In recent years, courts have instructed experts to apportion royalties and economic damages to the value contributed by a patented feature relative to non-patented […]
Recent Developments In Patenting And Licensing In Latin America: Brazil, Chile And Peru
By Cândida Ribeiro Caffé, Mariana Abenza, Felipe Claro and Renzo Scavia The protection of intellectual property is becoming an increasingly important issue in Latin American countries. Since the adoption of the TRIPs Agreement, governments are improving their IPRs law and developing a new awareness for patenting and licensing.
Licencing Of Patent Applications— Pre-Grant Royalty Earning
By Madelein Kleyn Research and development is costly. International patent portfolios even more so. The business strategy of most corporations, when filing a patent application, is to seek some return on R&D investment, mostly through self-exploitation of the products of R&D, or through royalty earnings from intellectual Property (IP).
COP 21: Historic Climate Change Agreement And Its Impact On Access And Transfer Of Green Technologies
By Fabrice Mattei It didn’t seem achievable until the early morning of December 12, 2015, after 12 days and nights of intense negotiations, 150 heads of state visits, over 40,000 attendees, not less than 14 opposing negotiating camps2 and unprecedented private business involvement, all 196 countries member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […]
Splitting The Atom: Economic Methodologies For Profit Sharing In Reasonable Royalty Analysis
By DeForest McDuff In recent years, courts have excluded economic experts for improperly using “rules of thumb” for profit sharing in reasonable royalty analyses. Common examples are the 25% Rule and improper application of the Nash Bargaining Solution (sometimes cynically, yet inappropriately, referred to as the “50% rule of thumb”). Such rules have, in the […]
Defining Fairness: Promoting Standards Development By Balancing The Interests Of Patent Owners And Implementers
By Matteo Sabattini Innovation and technology are fundamental drivers of the world economy. Mobile technologies, in particular, generated a global revenue of around $3.3 trillion in 2014, with more than 11 million jobs worldwide being related to mobile technology, and it is estimated that at least two-thirds of the mobile industry is based on innovation. […]
Idea Management System (IMS): An Innovation System To Create Value From Concepts
M. Rashid KhanIntellectual Assets and Technology Management Division of Saudi Aramco Mohammed AbdulazizAdministrator of Corporate Intellectual Assets Management for Saudi Aramco To empower its employees, Saudi Aramco initiated a new company-wide innovation program. In order to facilitate innovation, Idea Management System (IMS) was launched. IMS is an enterprise discipline that utilizes software products, services, procedures/ […]
WarpSpec Grand Prize Winner of LES Foundation’s 2015-2016 International Business Plan Competition
The Licensing Executives Society (LES) Foundation announced the winners of its 2015-2016 International Business Plan Competition, a program that focuses uniquely on the intellectual property (IP) aspects of business strategy. HOUSTON, TX – April 27, 2016 — The Licensing Executives Society (LES) Foundation today announced the winners of its 2015-2016 International Business Plan Competition, a […]
LES Foundation International Business Plan Competition Members’ Choice Award
Thank you for your support, voting is now closed. The winner will be announced at the LES Spring PanAm Meeting, April 26-28, Hotel ZaZa in Houston, TX. Time to Make Your VoteLES Foundation Members’ Choice AwardsInternational Business Plan Competition View Videos Here! – Voting is now closed. As the LES Foundation enters the Final Round of […]
Through A Looking Glass Clearly: In The Digital Age, ‘Intellectual Property’ Is Evolving Into ‘Intellectual Partnership’
By Ali Jazairy IP is evolving from “Intellectual Property,” where one attempts to build a litigation-proof and protective “fence” around one’s intellectual assets, to “Intellectual Partnership,” where one freely exchanges these intellectual assets through win-win transactions. The first 100 years of intellectual property (IP) since the Paris Convention in 1883 have been about all steps […]
