How to improve your early stage IP valuations
As appraisers tackling early stage companies can attest, the intellectual properties and intangible assets of early ventures create valuation challenges. At BVR’s Summit on Best Practices in Valuing Intellectual Property, hosted by Morningstar Valuation Services, expert appraisers Chris Bakewell (Duff & Phelps) and Ron Seigneur (Seigneur Gustafson) will address just these issues in their day-two [...]
The current state of the patent marketplace – an attorney’s view
Raymond Millien (PCT Law Group) told attendees at the National Bar Association’s 85th Annual Convention in New Orleans, LA last week (August 11): IP is still a highly-illiquid asset class with a very inefficient marketplace. That is, potential sellers of IP rights historically have been unable to access a large quantity of buyers who are [...]
If you can win on this IP claim, you can win on anything
Rupert Murdoch‘s BSkyB satellite TV company is trying to prevent Skype from registering trademarks for its telecommunications business. BSkyB won its case in an EU court, but Skype plans to appeal. What argument did Murdoch’s organization make to prevail? A BSkyB spokesman said (and the EU tribunal must have agreed) that “Sky” and “Skype” are [...]
BVR’s Guide to Intellectual Property Valuation updated
Updates have been posted to BVR’s Online Guide to Intellectual Property Valuation. New content includes: Recent court case decisions and case law involving intellectual property valuation Articles on Early-Stage Company Allocation and Valuing Software Companies Transcript of BVR’s recent webinar on the Valuation of Software Companies Recent BVWire, news and blog feeds on intellectual property valuation [...]
‘Plausible’ patent infringement analysis needs more to support lost profits award
The U.S. District Court (Delaware) first found that the defendant infringed four of the plaintiff’s patents related to liquid crystal display (LCD) technology. It next turned to the appropriate amount of reasonable royalty and lost profits damages. Damages estimate range from $300,000 to $7.8 million. In calculating a reasonable royalty for the established infringement, the [...]
How to make a few pennies from your copyrights…with bottom-feeding Righthaven
A Las Vegas “litigation trolling” company, Righthaven (the company has no web site), is betting that there is significant value in the copyrights owned by newspapers. Righthaven searches for copyright infringement of newspaper articles, purchases the IPR to the story, then sues for infringement. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is among the first to decide this [...]
Check the divorce laws in your state before you value early-stage intellectual property!
Patent attorneys and business appraisers who work with intangible assets need to understand…divorce law, at least according to Enovsys v. Nextel. The new decision involves a claim against Sprint-Nextel for infringement. At the time of his invention, Mundi Fomukong was married to Fonda Whitfield. After the first patent was issued, Fomukong and Witfield divorced (and [...]
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