New issue of Valuation Strategies includes scope of services article by Robert Reilly
The May/June issue of Valuation Strategies just arrived. Many of IPVW’s contributors are featured. The highlight of this new issue of Valuation Strategies is ”Defining the Scope of the Intellectual Property Engagement,” by Robert Reilly (Willamette Management Associates). Contact Managing Editor Gina Briggs for information. And, subscriptions are available from Thomson Reuters at 800-323-8724, option 1. Reilly is [...]
Microsoft’s software bundling may suffer soon from the law of unintended consequences
There is an interesting development in the Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft damages trial. Recall that a jury in San Diego federal court found Microsoft guilty of infringement, but an appeals court rejected the $358M damages award as lacking evidentiary support. Charles River VP Raymond Sims testified this week that a lump sum payment of between $65M [...]
News, Views and Muse
Protecting the value of IP is not a strategy reserved for headliner tech companies Clearly Candace Nelson is a master of promotion. The California company she founded, Sprinkles Cupcakes, Inc., has been featured on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Martha Stewart Show,” and “Entertainment Tonight,” and she is one of the judges on the “Cupcake [...]
Anheuser-Busch tips it hand by filing for area code trademarks
Consultants who recommend thinking twice before telling USPTO about your plans lest you reveal valuable corporate strategy to those who can negatively impact that strategy now have a new example to use … though, of course, we may never know the results of the revelations. Here’s the background, as described in the330.com. Apparently due to [...]
IP damages legal decision hinges on date of trade secret theft
IPVW takes special note of a new legal decision, De Lage Landen Operational Services, LLC v. Third Pillar Systems, 2011 WL 1771044 (E.D. Pa.)(May 9, 2011). Here’s the background: the plaintiff hired the defendant to develop a software program for its vendor finance business. In preliminary proceedings, the court found that during the project, the defendant [...]
Another crack appears in the Android IP dam
By Florian Mueller’s count, there are 49 ongoing Android-related infringement lawsuits. The first crack in the dam was found in Google’s Daubert motion to exclude the Oracle expert’s damages report, where Google’s own words could indicate intentional infringement. Now an ALJ from the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that HTC infringed two Apple patents [...]
Set these conditions for IP commercialization success
Six conditions have to be in place for technology commercialization to work, according to Dr. S. Dimolitsas of Georgetown University. Ideas. The whole process always begins with an idea. Ideally, this will be a market-driven, “commercializable” concept. Talent. An idea without the requisite talent to follow-through is meaningless. What role will the inventors play in [...]
University technology transfer offices can learn from the private sector
In Blogging Innovation, Melba Kuman recently listed some elements of IBM’s IP licensing strategy that might be relevant to university patent portfolios: IBM IP-related revenue includes payments from licensing know-how, consulting fees and other intangibles, not just patents (That licenses including trade secrets and knowhow are generally more lucrative to the licensor is the theme [...]
Are the tables turning in Oracle v. Google?
IPBlog has discussed Oracle’s use of Dr. Iain Cockburn as expert and his damages report. In a reading of Google’s Daubert motion to strike the report, however, there appeared to be a crack in the Google strategy with this revelation: “[Dr. Cockburn] ignores Google’s negotiation history with Sun regarding a Java license for the mobile space, [...]
Collaboration at the heart of proposed new business models
Reinforcing the IP-sharing theme discussed here on July 1, Dan Tapscott, in a forward looking blog in the WSJ, offers new paradigms for five industries that are currently busy chasing their tails. The common thread in each suggestion is collaboration of some sort, a sharing of intellectual property. For example, in a pharmaceutical industry that once [...]
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