We argued in our article, Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking, that the threat to obtain a permanent injunction can greatly enhance a patent holder’s negotiating power, leading to royalty rates that exceed a benchmark level based on the value of the patented technology and the strength of the patent. Our analysis showed that such problems are especially likely to arise for patents covering a min...

The present article contains a description of a new method of royalty calculation based on analysis of risk decrease generated by franchisor’s intellectual assets transmitted to franchisees.

author? s enjoy many and various copyright among which, according to the law of copyright, is the right of the property that is designed to provide a reputable life for the author and to encourage others to create novelties. they will often have to bargain their property right for a remuneration. this paper seeks, to provide a firm and acceptable definition of the remuneration (royalty) in such...

This article argues that the British press created a sense of celebrity around royal family in late eighteenth century by providing public with extensive information on private lives royalty. Analysing newspaper articles and printed images, it examines three case studies from period: scandalous romances, madness George III, tragic death princess. These highlight increasing exposition as well po...

BACKGROUND Postnatal and antenatal anti-D prophylaxis have dramatically reduced maternal sensitisations and cases of rhesus disease in babies born to women with RhD negative blood group. Recent scientific advances mean that non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD), based on the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma, could be used to target prophylaxis on "at risk" pregnancies where t...