Publications

Publications

(New)Introducing the LES build-up method to determine royalty rates”, IAM Media, September 13, 2023.

 

LES 2021 Royalty Survey Reports: Licensing Market Update, a Look Back, and an LES Royalty Valuation Method in the Making”, IPWatchdog, October 3, 2022.

 

“Chapter 5: Identify and Quantify the Value Contributions of Market Factors and License Parameters for Royalty Determination: What Has Been Learned from the High Tech Royalty Surveys”, 2021 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, September 2022.

 

“Chapter 4: Financial Terms: Descriptive Statistics and Analysis”, with Manta Zhang, 2021 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, September 2022.

 

Assessing How Much an Alzheimer’s Drug is Worth”, IPWatchdog, October 26, 2021.

 

Study in Patent Valuations across the Markets of Patent Transaction, Licensing, and Litigation, Part I: “Patent Valuations across Transaction and Licensing Markets”, Bloomberg Law, August, 2020.

 

Study in Patent Valuations across the Markets of Patent Transaction, Licensing, and Litigation, Part II: “Can Big Damages Awards Affect Patent Valuation Dynamics?”, Law360 Expert Analysis, August 17, 2020.

 

Assessing The Cost, Legal Fallout Of Capital One Data Breach”, Expert Analysis, Law360, August 15, 2019.

 

“Chapter 4. Financial Terms: Descriptive Statistics and Analysis”, with Manta Zhang, 2017 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, March, 2019.

 

“Chapter 5. Three Surveys, A Decade Journey: IPR Tax, Alice Shock, and the Dynamics of Licensing Market as Reflected by LES High Tech Royalty Surveys”, 2017 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, March, 2019.

 

“An Augmented Market Approach to Patent Portfolio Valuation”, IAM Magazine, Issue 79, September/October 2016.

 

“Patent Portfolio Valuation As Reflected by Market Transactions: Market dynamics and the impact of AIA and Alice”, forthcoming, Les Nouvelles, September, 2015. Also as “Patent Portfolio Valuation as Reflected by Market Transactions: What can we learn from history?” Licensing Economics Review, February, 2015; and as “Patent market dynamics and the impact of Alice and the AIA”, IPWatchdog, May 17, 2015. The Chinese version, translated by Min Ding ( 丁珉), ” 美国专利组合定价及专利市场演化”, 《电子知识产权》, 2015年第7期.

 

“Chapter 5. Financial Terms: Descriptive Statistics and Analysis”, with Manta Zhang, 2014 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, August, 2015.

 

“Chapter 6. Economic and Econometric Analysis on Key Issues Raised in the 2011 and 2014 Surveys”, 2014 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, August, 2015.

 

“Chapter 7. Summary and Conclusions”, with Bob Held, 2014 High Technology Sector Deal Term & Royalty Rate Survey Report, Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada, August, 2015.

 

“Comparison of Royalty Rates, Deal Terms, and Best Practices across the CEEM, High Tech, and Life Sciences Sectors”, with Hal Craig, Bob Held, and Deni Zodda; LES Insights Featured Article, featured on LES USA and Canada homepage during the week of March 4 to March 11, 2013.

 

“Decompose and Adjust Patent Sales Prices for Patent Portfolio Valuation”, Les Nouvelles, March 2013. A brief version of the paper was published as “Patent Portfolio Valuation: Bubbles, Trolls, and Strategies” on Licensing Economics Review, December 2012.

 

“The Myths and Facts of Patent Troll and Excessive Payment: Have Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) Been Overcompensated?” Business Economics, Vol. 47, No. 4, October 2012.

 

“Profitability and Royalty Rates Across Industries: Some Preliminary Evidence”, with Jon Kemmerer, KPMG Global Valuation Institute Publications, October 2012.

 

“Financial Terms: Descriptive Statistics and Analysis”, Chapter 5, Final Report of the Inaugural High Tech Royalty Survey, Licensing Executive Society, March 2012.

 

“Economic and Econometric Analysis on Major Issues in Survey”, Chapter 6, Final Report of the Inaugural High Tech Royalty Survey, Licensing Executive Society, March 2012.

 

“The Economics and Controversies of Nonpracticing Entities (NPEs): How NPEs and Defensive Patent Aggregators Will Change License Market”, Part I and Part II, March and June issue, Les Nouvelles, 2012.

 

“Intangible Assets Valuation by License Market and Stock Market: Cross-Industry Analysis based on Royalty Rate and Tobin’s q”, Les Nouvelles, June, 2011.

 

“Does Upfront Payment Reduce Running Royalty Rate?  Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Analysis”, Les Nouvelles, September, 2010.

 

“25% Rule Still Rules: New Evidences from Pro Forma Analysis in Royalty Rates”, Licensing Economics Review, April, 2010, and Les Nouvelles, March, 2011.

 

“Royalty Rate and Industry Structure: Some Cross-industry Evidence”, with Stephen Becker, presented at the Annual Conference of the International Academy of Business and Economics, Las Vegas, 2009.

 

“The Impact of Regulatory Intervention in Stock Options Backdating Disclosures”, with Stephen Becker, 2007 Oxford Business & Economics Conference, Oxford University, UK, 2007.

 

“Measuring the Evolution of Inequality in the Global Economy “, with James Galbraith, Chapter 8 of the Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View, edited by J. Galbraith and Maureen Burner, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

“Economic Regionalization, Inequality, and Financial Crisis”, with James Galbraith, Chapter 9 of the Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View, edited by J. Galbraith and Maureen Burner, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

“Cluster and Discriminant Analysis on Time Series as a Social Science Research Tool”, with James Galbraith, Chapter 16 of the Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View, edited by J. Galbraith and Maureen Burner, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

“Sustainable Development and the Open-door Policy in China (1978-1999)”, with James Galbraith, Council for Foreign Relations, 2000.  Also in The Bridge to a Global Middle Class, Walter Russell Mead and Sherle Schwenninger, eds., Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers, January 2003.

 

“How Surprising Was Asian Currency Crisis?  A Cluster Analysis on Major Macroeconomic Indicators “, 1999.  First draft presented at the Pacific Rim Allied Economic Organization Conference at Bangkok, Thailand, January 1998.