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© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Rule Of Thumb Is Extinguished Gerard Haddad Dickstein Shapiro Jonathan Putnam, PhD Charles River Associates

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2 Uniloc v. Microsoft “This court now holds as a matter of Federal Circuit law that the 25 percent rule of thumb is a fundamentally flawed tool for determining a baseline royalty rate in a hypothetical negotiation.” 632 F.3d 1292, 1315 (Fed. Cir. 2011)

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 3

4 Rule of Thumb The history of the rule How was it applied by Uniloc’s expert? How is the rule flawed? What should the experts look to generally? Did the Entire Market Value rule change? Real-life examples of proper damages analyses.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED U.S.C. 284 “Upon finding for the claimant the court shall award the claimant damages adequate to compensate for the infringement but in no event less than a reasonable royalty for the use made of the invention by the infringer….” The reasonable royalty is determined on the basis of a “hypothetical negotiation” at the time infringement began –When the patent issues –When the accused product began shipping

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 6 What is the 25% Rule? The rule suggests that a licensee pay a royalty rate of 25% of its expected profits for the product that incorporates the IP at issue. The rule leaves the licensee with 75 % of the profits to account for its development costs, commercial risks, its own contributions, etc. Had often been used as a starting point in damages analyses in patent cases, and then adjusted up or down based on other factors.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 7 Where did the 25% Rule come from? Often credited to Robert Goldscheider, who wrote an article tracing the rule back to as early as Goldscheider did a study on a series of licenses from the 1950s that averaged 25% of licensee’s profits Link to Goldscheider’s recent article:

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 8 More support for the rule A 1997 study of licensing organizations indicated use of the 25 % rule as a starting point in negotiations.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 9 Uniloc Background Patent directed to a system for registering or activating software on a CD using a code to unlock/activate it to prevent a CD with the software on it from being re-installed on another computer. Accused product was Microsoft’s product activation key for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Windows XP

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 10 Uniloc’s expert’s methodology Relied on Microsoft internal document that stated the product activation key was worth anywhere between $10 and $10,000 depending on the usage. Chose the lowest end of that range ($10) as the value of the product activation feature Applied the 25% Rule, which he said meant that 25% of the value of the product goes to patent owner, and 75% of the value stays with Microsoft. The rate he set was $2.50 per license Note that this was not 25% of the profits, but 25% of the “value” of the technology to Microsoft.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 11 Uniloc’s expert’s methodology He then looked at a set of factors known as the Georgia Pacific factors to determine whether the $2.50 should be adjusted up or down He concluded that $2.50 was about right Multiplied $2.50 by about 226 million licenses sold by Microsoft to come to $565 million in damages

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 12 Uniloc’s expert’s check against his calculation Expert used the Entire Market Value rule as a check to determine whether his other calculation was reasonable. –First estimated the total revenue of all the accused products based on an average selling price of $85 per unit, which came to about $20 billion –Then divided his damages figure of $565 million by $20 billion which he said resulted in a 2.9% royalty rate. –Because 2.9% was well below the “industry royalty rate” for software of 10%, it was reasonable.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 13 Microsoft’s objections to the 25% rule at trial Microsoft filed a motion in limine to exclude the expert’s testimony because it was based on the 25% rule. District court denied Microsoft’s motion because the 25% rule had been widely accepted.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 14 Microsoft’s objections to use of the entire market value rule Microsoft objected to Uniloc’s expert using the Entire Market Value rule as a check, arguing: –Product Activation was not the “basis of consumer demand” for Microsoft Office or Windows District Court agreed with Microsoft and granted a new trial on damages because the “$19 billion cat was never put back into the bag” and the jury may have “used the $19 billion figure to check its significant award of $388 million.”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 15 Fed Cir Uniloc decision criticizes the rule of thumb Does not consider the relationship between the patent and the accused product –Importance of the patent to the profits? –Availability of close substitutes (noninfringing alternatives)? Does not look at the patent –25% may be overly generous to narrow patents –25% may be too stingy for broad patents

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 16 Fed Cir Uniloc decision criticizes the rule Does not consider the relationship between the parties –e.g., Are they competitors? The rule is essentially arbitrary –Does not relate to a hypothetical negotiation that took place just prior to when infringement began

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 17 Fed Cir Uniloc decision criticizes the rule Relying on the 25% rule is even more unreliable than relying on unrelated licenses (which was rejected by ResQNet) Cannot just use 25% as a starting point because you then begin with a “fundamentally flawed premise” –Adjusting up or down based on legitimate grounds results in a flawed conclusion.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 18 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993) Uniloc cited Daubert and Rule 702, Fed. R. Evid. –Requires “judge to determine that the testimony was based on firm scientific or technical grounding”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 19 Uniloc holding: “This court now holds as a matter of Federal Circuit law that the 25 percent rule of thumb is a fundamentally flawed tool for determining a baseline royalty rate in a hypothetical negotiation. Evidence relying on the 25 per-cent rule of thumb is thus inadmissible under Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence, because it fails to tie a reasonable royalty base to the facts of the case at issue.”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 20 Requirements of expert testimony under Uniloc Patentee must sufficiently tie the expert testimony to the facts of the case or else it is excluded. Evidence unrelated to the claimed invention does not support compensation for infringement but punishes beyond the reach of the statute.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 21 What evidence is tied to the patent? Licenses –Patentee cannot rely on license agreements that are radically different from the hypothetical agreement under consideration. Lucent Techs v. Microsoft, 580 F.3d 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2009) –Licenses without a relationship to the claimed invention cannot form the basis of a reasonable royalty calculation. ResQNet v. Lansa, 594 F.3d 860 (Fed. Cir. 2010).

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 22 What evidence is tied to the patent? Licenses –Must be sufficiently comparable to the hypothetical license at issue in suit. Lucent Techs. –Must be commensurate with what the defendant has appropriated. ResQNet –Must have an economic or other link to the technology in question. ResQNet –Must be linked to the economic demand for the claimed technology. ResQNet

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 23 Uniloc requires a tie to the patent “there must be a basis in fact to associate the royalty rates used in prior licenses to the particular hypothetical negotiation at issue in the case.” “The 25 percent rule of thumb as an abstract and largely theoretical construct fails to satisfy this fundamental requirement.” –Not tied any particular technology –Not tied any particular industry –Not tied any particular party

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 24 Does Uniloc leave the door open to use the 25% Rule? Federal Circuit criticized expert for relying on 25% Rule because it was unrelated to the facts of the case –Fed Cir noted that expert testified “it’s generally accepted” and “I’ve used it. I’ve seen others use it” –Expert did not testify that the parties had a practice of beginning negotiations at a 25% / 75% split –Expert did not base his use of 25% on other licenses involving the patent or comparable licenses

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 25 Uniloc on the Entire Market Value Expert used Entire Market Value Rule as a check EMV “allows a patentee to assess damages based on the entire market value of the accused product only where the patented feature creates –the ‘basis for customer demand’ or –‘substantially create[s] the value of the component parts.’”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 26 Uniloc on the Entire Market Value Expert used Entire Market Value –Showed that his damages figure was only 2.9 % of total revenues of the accused product –Put up a pie chart showing what Microsoft gets to keep. –Showed that Microsoft’s damages expert’s royalty figure was only % of the total revenue, and that Microsoft got to “keep % of the box”. Fed Cir said this “derision” of Microsoft’s expert may have “inappropriately contributed to the jury’s rejection of his calcluations.”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 27 Uniloc on the Entire Market Value Microsoft argued using EMV was not proper because product activation (the patented feature) “did not create the basis for customer demand or substantially create the value of the component parts.” Uniloc argued that: – EMV of the product can be used if the royalty rate is low enough, and –$19 billion was only used as a check, not as the basis of damages.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 28 Uniloc on the Entire Market Value Can you rely on EMV if the royalty rate is low enough? –Uniloc district court relied on this statement from the Lucent Techs. case: “the base used in a running royalty calculation can always be the value of the entire commercial embodiment, as long as the magnitude of the rate is within an acceptable range (as determined by the evidence).” –Fed Cir said No! this was taken out of context. Cannot consider EMV for minor patent improvements simply by using a low enough royalty rate.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 29 Uniloc on the Entire Market Value Fed Cir agreed with the district court that “the $19 Billion cat was never put back into the bag” Putting $19 Billion in revenue “cannot help but skew the damages horizon for the jury.” “This is in clear derogation of the entire market value rule, because the entire market value of the accused products has not been shown to be derived from the patented contribution.” The fact that EMV was only a check “is of no moment”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 30 Uniloc on the Entire Market Value Uniloc cited 1884 Supreme Court case that required that the “the entire value of the whole machine, as a marketable article, is properly and legally attributable to the patented feature.” Garretson v. Clark, 111 U.S. 120, 121.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 31 What licenses are tied to the patent? ResQNet v Lansa, 594 F.3d 860 (Fed. Cir. 2010) –“the trial court must carefully tie proof of the damages to the claimed invention’s footprint in the marketplace” –“any evidence unrelated to the claimed invention does not support compensation for infringement but punishes beyond the reach of the statute.”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 32 ResQNet v Lansa 7 licenses considered by the plaintiff’s expert –5 for software and services “rebundling agreements” Rates between 25% and 40% –2 straight licenses arising out of litigation of the patents in suit. One was lump-sum Other was a running royalty likely around 5% Expert concluded 12.5% was reasonable

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 33 ResQNet v Lansa Fed Cir said the Court made no effort to link the 5 bundling licenses to the infringed patent –None of these 5 licenses mentioned the patents in suit –No evidence that the software and services embodied the patents in suit (other than conclusory statements by the damages expert). Defendant used no damages expert –Fed Cir said it was Plaintiff’s burden to offer sufficient evidence regarding an appropriate royalty

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 34 ResQNet v Lansa The two straight patent licenses were the most reliable ones –Fed Cir recognized that litigation can “skew the results of the hypothetical negotiation” because of the threat of high litigation costs. –Fed Cir also recognized that widespread infringement can artificially depress past licenses Reasonable royalty based on the re-bundling licenses “violates the statutory requirement that damages be ‘adequate to compensate for the infringement.’”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 35 ResQNet v Lansa Lengthy Judge Newman Dissent –Damages expert said that the software was based on the technology described in the patents –Evidence was unrebutted (defendant had no expert) –Expert testified to GP factor #12: customary profit for use of the invention or analogous inventions Expert discussed “oft-utilized 25% rule” Explained the 12.5 % royalty rate was within this rule

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 36 ResQNet v Lansa Take-away: –Tie software / services agreements to patents liability expert can testify how the software sold embodies the patents in suit. –Can use litigation settlements –Don’t cite the 25% rule

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 37 How have district courts interpreted Uniloc and ResQNet? VS Technologies v Twitter, 2011 US Dist LEXIS (ED Va October 5, 2011) –Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people, or those who wish to attain the status of a famous person –Plaintiff’s expert relied on Twitter documents that measured new users’ use of Twitter during the first week following their use of the allegedly infringing feature, which showed 5% to 7% of those users increasing their use of Twitter that week –Expert then apportioned incremental revenue of $73 to $102 million based on that incremental use.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 38 How have district courts interpreted Uniloc and ResQNet? VS Technologies v Twitter, 2011 US Dist LEXIS (ED Va October 5, 2011) –Expert then opined that VS Tech “would be entitled to somewhere between 15% and 40% of those calculations” based on his 40 years of experience –The district court allowed this testimony, distinguishing Uniloc because it was based on an arbitrary general rule. –District court said that here, unlike Uniloc, the expert’s “opinion is rendered on the basis of his experience.” –Is this royalty is “tied to the patent” ?

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 39 How have district courts interpreted Uniloc and ResQNet? Inventio v. Otis Elevator, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS (SDNY June 22, 2011) –Plaintiff’s expert relied on entire market value rule. –District Court acknowledged Uniloc’s warning against admitting this theory when the patented feature did not create the basis for customer demand –“It is not enough to present evidence that the patented feature was desirable, or that it played some role – even a substantial role – in the customer’s decision to purchase….” –Court noted no evidence of customer surveys or interviews showing why customers selected the accused product –Court precluded evidence of entire market value.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 40 How have district courts interpreted Uniloc and ResQNet? Mondis Technology v LG Electronics et al., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS (ED Tx June 14, 2011) –Patented feature did not create the basis for customer demand –Defendant’s expert relied on licenses that were based on a percentage of the total accused product sales. –The district court recognized Uniloc, but stated disagreed with the defendant that Entire Market Value Rule required the patented feature to be the basis of the customer demand where “the most reliable licenses [for the patented technology] are based on the entire value of the licensed products.”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 41 New Patent Act – Virtual Marking § 287(a) amended so that a product can be marked by affixing the word “patent” “together with an address of a posting on the Internet, accessible to the public without charge for accessing the address, that associates the patented article with the number of the patent….” Applies to any case pending or commenced on or after the date of the Act.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 42 New Patent Act – False Marking § 292 amended with “Only the United States may sue for the penalty authorized by this subsection.” “The marking of a product … with matter relating to a patent that covered that product but has expired is not a violation of this section.” Applies to “all cases, without exception” pending or commenced on or after the date of the Act –Should effectively shut down all the pending cases

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 43 New Patent Act – False Marking § 292 amended to carve out a new cause of action for competitors: “A person who has suffered competitive injury as a result of a violation of this section may file a civil action in a district court of the United States for recovery of damages adequate to compensate for the injury.”

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 44 New Patent Act – False Marking So, must show (1) you’re a competitor (2) a falsely marked product (but not just an expired patent) (3) you were damaged by the false marking You get actual damages – not the statutory amount.

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Jonathan Putnam Charles River Associates Apportionment and the EMVR Post-Uniloc

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Revenue = Price x Units Revenue

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Cost Revenue = Price x Units Profit = Revenue – Cost Profit

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Cost Revenue = Price x Units Profit = Revenue – Cost Profit Profit due to patented feature Profit due to other features

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Federal Circuit’s “advance” – 1 If profit must be apportioned, then revenue (the “royalty base”) must be apportioned too and you may have to apportion both quantity (to reflect “use”) and price (to reflect multiple features) 49

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units where feature not foundUnits where feature found but not basis of demand Units where feature is “the basis of demand” Units The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Cost

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. “Apportioning” the quantity “Dr. Jay’s survey results showed that 7% of Outlook purchase-decision makers that use the drop-down calendar feature would not have bought Outlook if it lacked the drop-down calendar. [Microsoft’s expert] multiplied the 7% by the percentage of all Outlook users who use the drop-down calendar—43%—to arrive at 3%.... This evidentiary record supports the conclusion that Microsoft would face a potential loss of [109 million x 3% =] 3.3 million licenses at the hypothetical negotiation if Microsoft did not include the Day patent technology in Outlook.” “The Court concludes that Lucent’s initial apportionment of 7% of the purchase- decision makers for Outlook who would not buy Outlook without the drop-down calendar with 43% who use the drop-down calendar sought to apportion between the patented and unpatented features as required by Uniloc.” Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Microsoft’s Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law and in the Alternative, a New Trial with a Remittur, November 10,

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. “Apportioning” the price “Though Lucent discounts the base to include only the revenue from Outlook where a user uses the Day patent technology, Lucent fails to show that it is entitled to capture this entire market value as the base. Specifically, Lucent has not shown that the Day patent technology is the basis for consumer demand for most Outlook users. At best, Lucent has introduced evidence to show that the Day patent technology is the basis for consumer demand for about 7% of users based on the Jay survey “For a product that is feature-rich like Outlook, use as a proxy for value does not appropriately account for all the other unpatented features that consumers use besides the Day patent technology even when consumers invoke the Day patent methods…” “Put into concrete terms, if a sample user uses the infringing Day patent technology but also uses many other features in Outlook, Lucent has not shown that it is entitled to include in the royalty base all $67 of revenue generated from this sample user…” Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Microsoft’s Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law and in the Alternative, a New Trial with a Remittur, November 10,

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Federal Circuit’s “advance” – 1 If profit must be apportioned, then revenue (the “royalty base”) must be apportioned too and you may have to apportion both quantity (to reflect “use”) and price (to reflect multiple features) Problems: no logical connection between the apportionment of profit and the use of revenue as a metering device real-world licenses often meter using entire revenue now, can have an “established royalty” (factor 1), based on real licenses, that fails the new EMVR test 53

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units where feature not foundUnits where feature found but not basis of demand Units where feature is “the basis of demand” Units Profit due to patented feature Profit due to other features The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Cost

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units where feature not foundUnits where feature found but not basis of demand Units where feature is “the basis of demand” Units Profit due to patented feature Profit due to other features The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Cost 50/50 split, plaintiff/defendant

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Federal Circuit’s “advance” – 2 “The basis for demand”  “but-for” demand If X% of consumers would not buy a product without feature Y, then feature Y is the basis for that X% Example: in Lucent retrial, survey evidence said 7% of consumers would not buy Outlook without the date-picker Problems: What if the feature is the keyboard’s “A” key, and X = 95% of consumers? Can the “B” key also be “the” basis for 95%? Confuses the “apportionment of profit” with the “(unitary) causation of purchase” – contradicts basic economics Does any invention pass this test? (Do you buy the drug or the FDA testing or the ad campaign or …?) 56

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Units where feature not foundUnits where feature found but not basis of demand Units where feature is “the basis of demand” Units Profit due to patented feature Profit due to other features The Entire Market Value Rule What Is It (Exactly)? Price Cost What about all these consumers?

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Explain Industry Cross-License Payments Regression analysis predicts an AUO-LGD deal

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Apportionment – Example from Cross-Licensing Three Steps 1. Predict the balancing payment between the parties 2. Decompose the balancing payment into component claims 3. Compute value shares for each party’s patents

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Predict the balancing payment between the parties Redacted

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Three Steps 1. Predict the balancing payment between the parties 2. Decompose the balancing payment into component claims 3. Compute value shares for each party’s patents

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Decompose the balancing payment Regression analysis identifies the component claims AUO’s Claim Against LGD LGD’s Claim Against AUO $79 million $32 million $111 million

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Three Steps 1. Predict the balancing payment between the parties 2. Decompose the balancing payment into component claims 3. Compute value shares for each party’s patents

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. What if there were a way to apportion value to each patent in a portfolio? A “rule” that derived from scientific literature worked with portfolios having 100s of patents applied to different fields of technology Simple and general assumptions the value of two patents equals the sum of individual values the individual values must add up to the portfolio total 64

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Value Shares of Asserted Patents The “Count, Rank and Divide” method Count –How many patents are in the portfolio Rank –Each patent by an objective indicator of importance Divide –Each party’s claim into shares for each patent

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The “ratio to the mean” rule Spread LowHigh Percentile 25% % % % % %

© COPYRIGHT DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Value Shares of 4 Asserted AUO Patents Patent ‘629.37%$148,000 ‘160 ‘157 ‘506.32%.06%.01% $130,000 $24,000 $3,500 Total.76%$305,500 Value Share Contribution to a Hypothetical License

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