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Lack of License Negotiation Experience Does Not Disqualify Expert

District court finds plaintiff’s expert qualified to testify to reasonable royalty calculation under Third Circuit’s liberal interpretation of Daubert despite lack of actual experience negotiating patent licenses; a hypothetical negotiation has no applica ...

Trademark Clearinghouse launched to help protect brands rights holders

The valuation of an intangible asset depends upon how it is used

What is Boeing’s strategy to shore up its safety reputation?

Apple is sued again for patent infringement

What’s wrong with using the cost approach to value intellectual property?

Market-based approach to valuing IP is enhanced by the existence of ktMINE

First sale doctrine upheld by U.S.S.C.

What factors increase brand value?

Pandora CEO to step down, but the company’s future depends upon Congress

Tomorrow the “first-to-file” gets the patent instead of “first-to-invent”

Angry Birds to move across platforms as Rovio is changing the IP value paradigm for fictional characters

Harlem Shake’s unexpected success has forced it to revisit permissions

Methods used to value brands

SynQor, Inc. v. Artesyn Technologies, Inc. (III)

Federal Circuit finds jury’s lost profits and reasonable royalty award based on plaintiffs’ price erosion theory is not excessive; sufficient evidence supported expert’s “but for” damages model calculating prices two to three times as much as the prices t ...

Macy’s exclusive arrangement with Martha Stewart in litigation

Another way IP flexes its valuation muscle is … funding pension plans?

Do IP policies adopted by Congress benefit foreign corporations at the expense of U.S. consumers?

Study puts some numbers to the effect of content piracy on IP rights holders

Microsoft’s Android-related licensing is less sexy than litigation but a more compelling business strategy

What is patent quality?

Judge reduces damages in Apple v. Samsung, setting the floor at $598M, and offers some guidance to expert witnesses

New legislation introduced to reign in NPE activity

Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. (II)

In patent case, federal court strikes $450 million from $1 billion award and orders a new damages trial, finding the plaintiff’s expert used an improper, “aggressive,” notice date regarding some patents and the jury awarded impermissible forms of compensa ...

Virnetx Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (I)

In Daubert ruling federal court finds the plaintiff’s expert violated entire market value rule when calculating a reasonable royalty, the apportionment factor he used to reduce the revenue of entire products was “a poor substitute” for the analysis necess ...