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Technology Potency: Patent Citation Refinements for Merger and Acquisition or Joint Venture Analysis
The real value of a possible acquisition or joint venture partner is often in the potential of their next invention. As advisers, patent managers, and intellectual asset strategists, it is critical that the methodology and tools used for assessing patent quality accurately reflect a would-be ally's technological potency.
Recent studies have drawn positive correlations between the increasing or decreasing quality of a company's patent estate and its stock market value. Lanjouw and Schankerman, Economic Journal, 114 (April), pp. 441-465. Patent quality, in the broadest sense, is most often tied to the frequency a patent is cited by other patents. Hall, Jaffe, and Trajtenberg, Royal Journal of Economics, Jan. 2004. One study correlating market value with forward citations found that patents valued at $1 million received an average of about eight citations, while patents valued at $100 million received an average of about 14. Harhoff, Narin, Scherer, and Vopel, Review of Economics & Statistics, Vol. 81, Issue 3, August 1999, p. 511.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Protecting Innovation in the Cyber World from Patent Trolls
With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities (PAEs or "patent trolls"), companies that don't make any products but instead seek royalties by asserting their patents against those who do make products.