Replies to post #74829 on MMRGlobal, Inc. (fka MMRF)

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Makes sense...

Bet SCM goes on until all these others are settled...

The fact that patent licenses are virtually always kept confidential contributes quite a bit to the unpredictability of patent damages. Reasonable royalty damages are (essentially) defined as the market rate license for the invention, but publicly available information about the market for patents is very hard to come by. This information deficit opens the door for the introduction of speculative, results-oriented testimony from damages experts.

So, if 30 million is what MMRF from SCM over some yrs, isn't that giving disclosure? Point is, why would MMRF be granted 30 million for licensing (if thats what its for) when the non-disclosed may be much lower?


Those few disclosed in litigation are tiny or huge

Experts' royalty estimates sometimes diverge by
10,000% or more (Golden, ‘
Patent Trolls’ and Patent
Remedies

–
Those disclosed otherwise are large

“most significant source of public patent licenses is
federal securities law filings, which require disclosure
... if it is material”

http://web.stanford.edu/dept/law/ipsc/Paper%20PDF/Love,%20Brian%20-%20Presentation.pdf