Intellectual Property Valuation

Intellectual property (IP) assets such as patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secrets are increasingly the core of many organisations and transactions. Licensing and assignments of corresponding IP rights are common, and the use of these types of assets as loan security has grown. Hence the growing importance of the valuation of intangibles: trading an asset requires knowing its value. Several methodologies are commonly used on the market to value these assets. This fact sheet will explain the different methods, and examples of possible use scenarios of these methodologies are given.