Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group (IV)
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 ...
Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group (III)
District court denies defendants’ pretrial motion claiming expert failed to consider non-infringing alternatives in her apportionment analysis and affirms Daubert ruling in favor of plaintiff.
Loutts v. Loutts
State spousal support statute does not flatly forbid double dipping, but requires courts to consider all circumstances of a particular case and principles of fairness, appellate court rules.
Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group (I)
District court rejects defendants’ Daubert challenge finding plaintiff’s expert’s reference to total revenue was legitimate starting point of apportionment analysis and did not amount to use of Entire Market Value Rule.
Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group (II)
District court rejects plaintiff’s Daubert challenge finding defendants’ expert may “inaugurate” reasonable royalty analysis by referring to plaintiff’s existing licenses; however, licenses did not demonstrate an established royalty considering their lack ...
Delaware Chancery Permits Shareholder to Sue Board for Backdating Stock Options
Delaware Chancery Court permits shareholder derivative suit to proceed against corporate board in the stock option backdating context.
Ryan v. Gifford
Delaware Chancery Court permits shareholder derivative suit to proceed against corporate board in the stock option backdating context.
Accounting Expert’s Lost Profits Analysis Accepted Over Economist’s Estimate
The Delaware Court of Chancery calculated lost profits arising from the breach of a contract.
Honeywell International Inc., et al. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
The Delaware Court of Chancery calculated lost profits arising from the breach of a contract.
Damages Based on Subsequent IPO Price
This breach of contract action arose as a result of defendant's alleged termination of plaintiff's employment relationship.
Pollen v. Aware, Inc.
This action arose as a result of defendant's alleged termination of plaintiff's employment relationship, which defendant claimed resulted in the extinguishments of plaintiff's stock options.
Crystal Semiconductor Corporation v. Tritech Microelectronics International, Inc.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed in part and affirmed in part the lower court’s award of lost profits in this patent infringement case. The jury awarded lost profits based on the market segmentation theory of damages whi ...
Market Segmentation and Price Erosion Considered
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed in part and affirmed in part the lower court’s award of lost profits in this patent infringement case. The jury awarded lost profits based on the market segmentation theory of damages whi ...
Tax Court Accepts Weighting of Market and DCF Methods
At issue is the value of a minority interest of 715,333 shares of Xilinx Inc., a manufacturer of programmable logic devices, as of the date of decedent's death, Oct. 22, 1989.
Estate of Freeman v. Commissioner
Business Valuation and Taxes: Procedure, Law and Perspective ...