A CRA expert determined the fair market value of a publisher’s US copyrights in connection with bankruptcy proceedings and a dispute with the publisher’s unsecured creditors. CRA considered both the standard and premise of value and analyzed various valuation methodologies under the cost, market, and income approaches, ultimately utilizing the excess earnings valuation methodology under the income approach. The parties ultimately reached a favorable settlement that compensated the lenders and enabled the publisher to emerge from bankruptcy.
Recent federal circuit opinions address the economic domestic industry requirement
Under Section 337, a complainant must demonstrate that a domestic industry relating to each asserted patent either exists or is in the process of being...