Principle

Like all assets, a patent is an asset whose value depends on the amount of revenue it will generate according to its legal characteristics (such as copyright limitation and validity period).

Applicability

 Acquisition or handover of patents.
 Internal restructuring.
 Determination and justification of the patent’s licence fee

Method

 Economic analysis of the patents’ role.
 Research and study of licensing agreements concerning similar patents.
 Assessment of the valuation parameters: discount rate, underlying or actual licence fee rate, patents’ life period.
 Prospective analysis of the value added by the patent.
 Choice of the valuation methods according both to the patents’ characteristics and context.

Results

 Evaluating patents by their sources of value added.
 Advising the most sensible licence fees to apply on the company’s licensing agreements.

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 Thalès - Sagem - Biomérieux