| Freelance Writers’ Class Action Settlement: A Tree Falls in the ...
Were objecting to the approval two years ago, in U.S. District Court in New York, of a massively comprehensive settlement of a set of class action cases. The consolidated case bundled claims that just about every newspaper and magazine publisher in the land, along with their electronic database company partners and licensees, had been blatantly and systematically infringing freelancers copyrighted works for, oh, the last 20 years or so. For their trouble, the writers were to receive, after the subtraction of attorneys fees and claims administration costs, a grand total of less than $12 million, divvied up in a multi-tiered claim structure with awards as low as $5. In return, class members would grant rights in perpetuity to the defendant publisher-infringers to reuse not only those articles with directly settled claims, but also the works of the tens or hundreds of thousands of other writers around the world who either didnt get wind of the settlement or didnt bother to study the settlements dense legalese and to complete its burdensome claims paperwork.
New Seminar to Train Institutional Investors How to Value the ...
“Most of the value of promising companies lies in their intangible assets and intellectual property portfolios," said David Wanetick, Managing Director of IncreMental Advantage. “However, it is exceedingly rare for even the most sophisticated institutional investors to take even a cursory review of their target companies' intellectual property positions. Such systemic oversight routinely leads to catastrophic miscalculations." Mr. Wanetick continued, “Similarly, companies whose value proposition is largely resident in their intangible assets and intellectual property have difficulty articulating the strength of their intellectual property positions to the investment community. This disconnect leads to undervaluation in terms of such companies' reputation, share price and acquisition price." IncreMental Advantage is providing two services to mitigate the disparity in valuations companies receive as a result of the mispricing of their intellectual property portfolios.
Japan Feb Money Supply Table Of Data
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Judgments Granted in Favor of Chugai in Lawsuits Filed by ...
TOKYO, Feb. 27, 2007-Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. [Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo. President: Osamu Nagayama] (hereafter, Chugai) announced today that the Intellectual Property High Court granted judgments in favor of Chugai in a patent infringement suit and a revocation suit against a trial decision by the Japanese Patent Office, both filed by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. [Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo. President: Norio Yamaguchi] (hereafter, Ajinomoto). .
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