Reasonable Royalty Rates Pass Daubert If Not ‘Pulled Out of the Air’

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 17 No. 6
Legal and Court Case Update
June 2011
2099 Food Preparations, NEC
311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing
intellectual property
economic damages & lost profits, reasonable royalty

Flowers Bakeries Brand, Inc. v. Interstate Bakeries Corp.
2011 WL 1004657 (N.D. Ga.)
March 17, 2011
US
Federal Court
Georgia
United States District Court
Donald Raulerson
Thrash

Summary

Federal court admits reasonable royalty rates based on past licensing agreements, but bars lost profits evidence that fails to account for market factors that could have caused the loss.

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Flowers Bakeries Brand, Inc. v. Interstate Bakeries Corp.

Federal court admits reasonable royalty rates based on past licensing agreements, but bars lost profits evidence that fails to account for market factors that could have caused the loss.