In Paice, for instance, the district court, instructed by the Federal Circuit not to use the jury's $25-per-unit damages award, fell back on the most reviled patent damages theory in history, (49) the so-called
25% rule of thumb.
Uniloc: The Federal Circuit Declares an End to the
25% Rule of Thumb, from the Celesq[R]-West IP Master Series
(9) During its lifetime, as acknowledged in Judge Linn's opinion, some version of the
25% Rule has been used in literally hundreds of cases without recriminations by the parties.
The
25% rule cannot be scrapped without Congress giving its consent.
The
25% rule allows for the normal price fluctuation that occurs in most issues.
Chapters cover IP and corporate value, licensing IP assets, use of the
25% rule in valuing IP, royalty rate guidelines, comparable licenses, royalty statistics, profit differentials and royalty rates, court-awarded royalty rates, comparisons of litigated and non-litigated licenses, and monitoring license agreements and financial compliance.
The section on licensing covers intellectual property exploitation strategies, economic contributions of intellectual property, global exploitation potential, use of the
25% rule in valuing intellectual property, licensing economics and royalty rights, licensing negotiations and agreements, internet asset licensing, and university technology transfer.
The new rules abolish the "
25% rule", which currently means that it is not obligatory to label components of compound ingredients that make up less than 25% of the final food product.
When the new allergen labelling directive comes into force, the '
25% rule' referred to above is almost certain to disappear.
However, this list is not mandatory when the compound ingredient represents less than 25% of the finished product (the so-called "
25% rule"), except in respect of additives.
"In the last year in particular," says one Big Five agency topper, "the
25% rule seems to be in effect everywhere."