Category: Appraisals / Valuations, Financial/Economic, Intellectual Property A Primer on the Valuation of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Capital, and Intangible Assets TASA ID: 322 The most common types of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Capital, and Intangible Assets that need valuation are: Patents, Software, Trademarks... Read more
Category: Intellectual Property What IP Attorneys Should Know About Expectations and Costs for Survey Research TASA ID: 961 In likelihood of confusion, trade dress, and secondary meaning cases, I am often called upon to develop surveys based on personal interviews at shopping malls, research centers, or via telephone. Most attorneys who have never personally been involved in such research generally ask a number of key questions such as: Read more
Category: Intellectual Property Practical Market and Technical Research for IP Litigation and Investigations TASA ID: 115 During the course of patent, trademark, or copyright application, prosecution, litigation, or licensing work, the need for independently obtained marketing/business and technical information and research often arises. Although the client and law firm may have some of this information, the need to perform some cost-effective, timely "MBA and/or Technical" type of assignment by engaging a marketing and/or technical researcher/expert may be justified. Read more
Category: Construction, Engineering, Landscape Architecture Injuries and Damages from Landscape Construction Negligence and Defects: Irrigation Systems TASA ID: 3447 A tired executive returns home in the evening from a long day at work. While walking along the pathway to the front door, he trips over a sprinkler head in the adjacent planter bed, loses his balance and falls awkwardly, breaking his neck and suffering paralysis from the neck down. Read more
Category: Landscape Architecture Lessons from a Landscape Architect: De facto vs. De jur TASA ID: 334 If you are driving down a steep hillside on a narrow serpentine road, to the intersection of the nearest major road, you are on the site of one of my most difficult analysis. A freshwater reservoir had slowly evolved over a period of time into a semi-formal campsite with primitive and semi-developed camps, served by a road that was originally designed to accommodate service vehicles used to inspect and maintain pumps and valves at the hilltop reservoir. With silent assent from government officials and without formal designation of land use changes, the intensity of use of the site slowly increased. A geometric analysis of the turning radii of this road, along with an inspection of pavement and widths, determined the designs speed of this road to be 15 miles per hour while speed limit signs posted indicated 35 miles per hour. Read more
