New case law collections in intellectual property and bankruptcy valuation
BVR Business Valuation & Bankruptcy Compendium The new BVR Business Valuation & Bankruptcy Compendium: Case Law and Analysis contains over 100 court case abstracts and full text opinions of bankruptcy cases involving a dispute over the value of a business. The compendium includes all precedent-setting cases in the United States over the last 15 years [...]
IP lawyers and their experts need to link copyright infringement to specific lost revenues
Interplan Architects, Inc. v. C.L. Thomas, Inc., 2010 WL 3982273 (S.D. Tex.)(Oct. 8, 2010) The plaintiff submitted architectural drawings and designs to the defendant to build nine different convenience stores in Texas. Three years later, the plaintiff discovered that the defendant had given the drawings to two other architectural firms to build several stores, and [...]
CLE Webcast option added for September Valuation of IP Summit
More good news on the CLE front. We’ve added an affordable Webcast option for our September Valuation of Intellectual Property Summit. Interested attorneys and paralegals can now watch the two-day event live via Webcast for just $499. Event details are below. BVR/Morningstar Summit on Best Practices in Valuing Intellectual Property September 15-16, 2010 – The Auditorium at [...]
September Business Valuation Summits Offer Ohio Practitioners Robust CLE Opportunity
Good news, Ohio friends. Our upcoming Chicago Summits covering Valuation of Intellectual Property and Business Valuation in Divorce, have been approved for 11 Ohio CLE credits. Event details are below. We look forward to seeing you in Chicago next month! BVR/Morningstar Summit on Best Practices in Business Valuation in Divorce September 13-14, 2010 – The Auditorium [...]
CLE for IP lawyers: What goes into an early stage IP valuation?
Your clients can have millions of dollars–and, in fact, the survival of their organization–at risk based on the valuation of their early stage IP. Lawyers and appraisers will discuss best practices in litigation and valuation at BVR’s Summit on Best Practices in Valuing Intellectual Property, hosted by Morningstar Valuation Services. At one CLE session in [...]
An attorney’s view of patent marketplace and what it means for licensing values
BVLaw Alert took special note of comments by Raymond Millien (PCT Law Group) at last week’s National Bar Association 85th Annual Convention in New Orleans: 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 [...]
Patent infringement analysis may be ‘plausible’ but still insufficient for lost profits award
AU Optronics Corp. v. LG Display Co., Ltd., 2010 WL 2720816 (D. Del.)(July 8, 2010) 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 [...]
If you want to value early-stage IP, perhaps you need to know divorce law!
Here’s a new twist that seems to show that patent attorneys and business appraisers who work with intangible assets need to understand…divorce law. Enovsys v. Nextel 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 [...]
Update on Bilski and other new IP valuation cases
The Supreme Court opened the door in Bilski v. Kappos to patents of new techniques and processes. But Bilski also paves the way for new challenges to expert witnesses testifying on the value of intellectual properties. Added to obstacles in assessing value, recent case law has also heralded changes for appraisers in indentifying assets, identifying ownership, [...]
Bilksi affirmed, allowing business process patents
In one of the most highly anticipated, long-awaited patent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court finally decided Bilski v. Kappos yesterday afternoon. The Court held that the Federal Circuit Court’s so-called “machine or transformation” test is not the only test for a patentable process (requiring it to be tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or [...]
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