This essay presents the most recent results from an on-going research project that collects and analyzes the market prices of patent portfolio transactions. The project was initially launched in 2012 as part of the efforts to better understand the pricing behavior of the rapidly growing patent...

Demand is increasing for quick, easy and relatively reliable methods of patent portfolio valuation in patent-intensive corporate transactions. An augmented market approach may be the solution.The augmented market approach to patent portfolio valuation saves a great deal of time without...

In most headline commentaries and legal studies, non-practicing entities or NPEs are alleged to have dramatically increased the business costs of practicing or producing companies. NPEs are sometimes monikered as patent trolls who would hold up practicing companies that have made irreversible...

There has been no previous research on the link between license market and stock market. Are the two markets integrated or coupled such that the valuation of the same portfolio of intangible assets is consistent cross market? This study tries to fill the research gap. Based on the data of...

In an effort to decompose and adjust patent sales prices for patent portfolio valuation, this study analyzes patent transaction data collected as of September 2012. After presenting the descriptive statistics, the analysis designates a hedonic-model-like specification to identify the value...

Patent valuations as reflected by patent sale price and licensing royalty rate have been frequently discussed and sometimes hotly debated in mass media, expert analysis, and scholastic research. However, there have been no studies to examine the relationship, or the lack thereof, between such...

This article expands the analysis about patent valuations in patent transaction and licensing markets, by including patent damage awards and by exploring the dynamics, as well as the driving forces behind the dynamics, of the valuations across the markets of patent transaction, licensing, and...

The High Technology Sector of the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada) conducted the first deal term and royalty survey in 2011. A total of 228 licensing transactions were reported, and 220 of them included various forms of royalty payments. This article presents the economic and...