A comprehensive reference for valuation of intangible assets Intellectual Property, Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages provides in-depth, up-to-date guidance about the valuation of intangible assets. Covering patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and more, this book describes the standards, best practices, and case law relating to valuation, licensing, and infringement damages. Intellectual property strategies are examined from a business economic standpoint, and analytical models are provided to streamline the calculation of valuations, licensing royalty rates, and fair equity splits in joint venture arrangements. Designed to ease the task of attaching monetary value to intangible assets, this invaluable reference includes extensive practical guidance including sample royalty rate information, diffusion sales forecasting models, detailed treatment of investment rate of return, and the valuation of early-stage technology. Intellectual property is rapidly becoming a major profit center for an increasing number of companies, who may invest billions of dollars in development of an irreplaceable asset. This book provides an authoritative reference for exploiting this property to its fullest extent, and quantifying its actual economic value. Now that intangible assets are becoming the cornerstones of corporations, applying a logical, analytical approach to valuation has become more important than ever. Intellectual Property, Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages provides expert guidance for each stage of the asset's life cycle, with recommended procedures and strategies grounded in case law and real-world practice.

This volume take the reader through the legal and accounting principles that govern the valuation of assets. A crucial problem for legal, accounting, banking and venture capital professionals, it is also important to owners and managers of IP assets.

Describes major aspects of intellectual property such as types and definition along with examples of its exploitation, techniques for determining remaining economic life and a review of current legal events affecting intellectual property. This edition contains updated information on trends in court decisions that make patents and trademarks more valuable than ever before, royalty rate decision factors, even more detailed authentic examples, scores of illustrative charts and graphs and easy-to-use checklists. Supplemented annually.

Safeguarding Intangible Assets provides strategies for preserving and enhancing a company's intangible assets to increase its profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability. Intangible assets such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, methodologies, and brand typically account for 80 percent of an organization's value and revenue. There are many forces making it more and more difficult to protect these assets, and securing them is a complex issue often overlooked by security and risk managers. Many security managers do not have adequate policies or procedures in place to protect these assets from compromise, infringement, and theft. Safeguarding Intangible Assets provides managers with the tools necessary for protecting these assets through effective and consistent oversight designed to preserve their control, use, and ownership. The book offers strategies for various types of business transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate-university R&D alliances, new product launches, early stage firms, and university-based spin-offs. - Offers step-by-step guidelines and best practices for establishing and maintaining an intangible asset protection program - Provides intangible asset risk management strategies that preserve the company's value, revenue, and competitive advantages - Shows how to collaboratively build a company culture that anticipates and recognizes intangible asset risks in everyday transactions and operations - Strengthens the interface with other departments' security practices, including IT, management, legal, accounting, finance, and risk management

The highly experienced authors of the Guide to Intangible Asset Valuation define and explain the disciplined process of identifying assets that have clear economic benefit, and provide an invaluable framework within which to value these assets. With clarity and precision the authors lay out the critical process that leads you through the description, identification and valuation of intangible assets. This book helps you: Describe the basic types of intangible assets Find and identify intangible assets Provide guidelines for valuing those assets The Guide to Intangible Asset Valuation delivers matchless knowledge to intellectual property experts in law, accounting, and economics. This indispensable reference focuses strictly on intangible assets which are of particular interest to valuation professionals, bankruptcy experts and litigation lawyers. Through illustrative examples and clear modeling, this book makes abstract concepts come to life to help you deliver strong and accurate valuations.

Whether you are a corporate executive, international policy maker or motivated student, "Intellectual Property for Executives" will help you grasp an exciting area that continues to evolve.Intangible assets encompass formal intellectual property (IP) such as patents, trademarks, copyright and trade dress and other sources of corporate value such as trade secrets, knowhow and reputation. Together they represent an emerging asset class with unlimited opportunity, but also with so many gaps:*In multinational corporations and innovative firms, enterprise value has become more than 80% intangible, but management techniques, accounting principles and tax rules were all developed in an era when a firm's value was driven by tangible assets such as land, buildings and machinery.*Large firms have become proficient at playing the game of moving intangible assets to offshore locations, thereby reducing their tax bills. Indeed, in some industries, tax strategy has become a primary tool of competition. Governments have scrambled to catch up and ensure that taxes are collected fairly.*In 2017, the OECD base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) action plan was implemented in a multilateral instrument by more than 70 countries, and corporate tax departments are now trying to figure out how to establish "intangible substance" to match their choice of domicile for their IP holdings."Intellectual Property for Executives" is for people who live in those gaps. It is also for executives who are looking for an overview of how to make sense of it all.The book is organised in three sections. *The first part sets the scene - a quick history of IP systems, how IP got on the executive agenda, USA public policy regarding IP and a special chapter on the growth of China as an IP power.*The middle part speaks about the taxation of intangibles, double taxation treaties and introduces the concept of "substance" in intellectual property business.*The final section puts it all together with guidance on how to build "substance" into corporate governance, local leadership, value-creating DEMPE activities, building local capabilities and conducting an IP audit.Intangible value in has already established its dominance in enterprises. With further growth in autonomous vehicles, VR, AR, 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data and robots, it will become even more important to master intellectual property and intangible value.

A practical and useful resource for valuing trademarks The Second Edition of Trademark Valuation is a fresh presentation of basic valuation principles, together with important recent changes in worldwide financial reporting regulations and an update on the current worldwide legal conditions and litigation situation as they relate to trademarks. A new section discussing issues surrounding valuation of counterfeits and the economic effects of trademark counterfeiting is included in this informative Second Edition. Considers methods to determine the real value of your trademark and exploit its full potential Offers dozens of case studies that illustrate how to apply valuation methods and strategies to real-world situations Communicates complex legal and financial concepts, terms, principles, and practices in plain English Discusses GATT, NAFTA, emerging markets, and other international trademark considerations