Reading Time: 5 minutes10 Ways to Make Your Business More Valuable If you are considering selling your company in the future, you are likely wondering how much your company may be worth and what makes a business attractive to potential buyers. To help you understand...
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt appears that patents and baseball players share similar odds of success and the same value curve. Likelihood of Success The chances of a high school baseball player making it to Major League Baseball are roughly equivalent to an inventor...
Reading Time: 2 minutesSolo performing rock starts are much more likely to die prematurely than rock stars that are members of a band. The reason is solo performers are more likely to engage in destructive behavior (e.g. drug and alcohol abuse) than members of a band....
Reading Time: 20 minutesYou will never get the license agreement your technology deserves. You get the license agreement you negotiate. With this in mind, it is important for inventors, licensing professionals and intellectual property lawyers to constantly hone their...
Reading Time: 4 minutesSuppose you are valuing a large patent portfolio with issued patents and pending applications in more than 20 countries throughout the world. One of your tasks would be to project how much royalties each patent could collect in each of the...
Reading Time: 4 minutesLet’s say that we are reviewing a patent with very narrow and very poorly constructed claims that read on something that doesn’t seem to have any commercialization potential. Further, the prosecution history was very contentious and resulted in...
