Research In Motion May Have To Pay Higher Royalty
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Banc of America Securities reiterated a &quot;neutral&quot; rating on Research In Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) but slashed the target price to $86 from $99, saying the final outcome of the company&#39;s patent-infringement trial looks negative.
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As a standards-setting body readies a protocol for radio frequency identification, known as RFID, a bid for royalties from a holder of critical patents has threatened to disrupt the smooth rollout of a technology that could spawn one of the decade's biggest industries.
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If a new online radio webcasting royalty rate, proposed last week by the Copyright Royalty Board of the US Library of Congress, is ratified and put into effect, online webcasting leader AOL Radio may receive a bill for copyright holders' royalties retroactive to 2006 amounting to $23.7 million, payable to a collective representing the US recording industry. And that's not the half of it.
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A court ruling bodes well for next-generation royalties.
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The company has attractive fundamentals, but unusual remuneration schemes are worrisome.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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New legislation would make it harder to obtain a new patent, easier to challenge patents, and less expensive to violate a patent.
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Research and investment into  brain-related illnesses is growing at an unprecedented rate as  scientific advances coincide with the demands of an aging  baby-boom population determined to beat the odds.
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A precedent-setting patent decision could affect Canadian innovation and foreign R&D investment.
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Blog: Music industry group that collects royalty payments has offered a compromise, but it's unclear whether it will go far enough to please disgruntled Webcasters.
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The value is already there in small open-source companies but it may take a larger and more diverse organization to supply the leverage that makes money off that value.
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The company is in a phase of explosive growth, and that costs money.
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For most public companies, patents donât pay off, say a couple of researchers who have crunched the numbers.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (Bloomberg News) â Companies that lease tracts in the Gulf of Mexico in an oil and natural gas sale planned for March will pay higher federal royalties, the Minerals Management Service said Tuesday.
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Legal and research expenses drag its bottom line down.
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Media & professional: The corporation's global presence is threatened by the licence fee squeeze, writes James Robinson.
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Now might be a great time to load up on cutting-edge drug makers.