Finding ‘Smallest Salable Unit’ Does Not End Royalty Base Analysis

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 20 No. 1
Legal and Court Case Update
January 2014
7372 Prepackaged Software
334614 Software and Other Prerecorded Compact Disc, Tape, and Record Reproducing
intellectual property
patent infringement, daubert, reasonable royalty, smallest salable unit, rules of thumb, entire market value rule (EMVR), uniloc

Dynetix Design Solutions, Inc. v. Synopsis, Inc.
2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120403
August 22, 2013
US
Federal Court
California
United States District Court
Dr. William H. Black (plaintiff); unknown (defendant)
Grewal

Summary

District court finds expert’s royalty analysis is fatally defective as to the base and rate; expert improperly presumed that using smallest salable unit featuring the patented part ended rate analysis even though that feature was not closely tied to defen ...

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Dynetix Design Solutions, Inc. v. Synopsis, Inc.

District court finds expert’s royalty analysis is fatally defective as to the base and rate; expert improperly presumed that using smallest salable unit featuring the patented part ended rate analysis even though that feature was not closely tied to defen ...