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How to value a patent: a simple formula for lost profits patent damages

International journal of business & economic development, 2019-04, Vol.7 (1) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2019. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the associated terms available at http://www.ijbed.org/copyright_policy . ;ISSN: 2051-848X ;ISSN: 2051-8498 ;EISSN: 2051-8498 ;DOI: 10.24052/IJBED/V07N01/ART-01

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  • Title:
    How to value a patent: a simple formula for lost profits patent damages
  • Author: Yoo, Young S. ; Magee, Stephen P.
  • Subjects: Profits
  • Is Part Of: International journal of business & economic development, 2019-04, Vol.7 (1)
  • Description: Patents are valuable only when they are enforced in court. The purpose of this paper is to measure a patent owner’s profits that are lost when a competing firm unlawfully makes infringing sales. Our microeconomic methodology computes a two-firm duopoly equilibrium with an infringer present and compares it with the same market but with the infringer removed. The second equilibrium represents a legally sanctioned single-firm patent monopoly. We derive a single equation representing the lost profits damage percent to be paid to the patent owner by the infringer. We incorporate product demand, both firms’ marginal costs, output, market shares, and prices in our equation. There are three contributions of this paper. One, we derive the simplest duopoly/monopoly damage equation we have seen that captures all the economic effects into a single percentage damage number. Second, that damage percent multiplied times the patent owner’s actual profits (with infringement ongoing) equals the dollar damages the infringer should pay in court for the patent owner’s lost profits. Third, we apply our formula to a small pilot study of classic US patent lost profit cases and find that our equation’s damage predictions had a correlation of .71 with the actual Federal court damage outcomes. We also illustrate the use of the formula. For example, if a patent owner’s actual profits on its patented product was $10 million with infringing sales present, then lost profits damages due to the patent owner would be $12.5 million if the two firms’ sales were equal. Patent damages increase to over $40 million if the infringer’s market share increased to triple that of the patent owner in the two-firm market.
  • Publisher: London: Centre for Business & Economic Research
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2051-848X
    ISSN: 2051-8498
    EISSN: 2051-8498
    DOI: 10.24052/IJBED/V07N01/ART-01
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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