In recent years, there is growing awareness that intellectual property (IP) assets can be monetized. There are various ways to do so. IP can be sold, licensed, used as collateral or security for debt finance, or it can provide an additional or alternative basis for seeking equity from friends, family, private investors (the so-called business…
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Using Intellectual Property as Collateral For many intellectual property (IP) centric companies suffering from cash flow constraints, traditional financing options may be unavailable or too expensive to pursue. Using IP as collateral is an emerging business option that may offer a financing opportunity for companies with valuable IP assets seeking alternative sources of capital. In…
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The European Commission appointed a panel of European intellectual property (IP) valuation experts whose tasks included reviewing the valuation methods for IP and their use, identifying bottlenecks in these methods for the purpose of a company’s financial reporting, access to finance and litigation, identifying good practices and recommending policy actions. According to this report, “the…
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The rapid pace of technological advances creates many difficulties for R&D practitioners in analyzing emerging technologies. Patent information analysis is an effective tool in this situation. Conventional patent information analysis has focused on the extraction of vacant, promising, or core technologies and the monitoring of technological trends. From a technology management perspective, the ultimate purpose…
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Attorneys specializing in intellectual property (IP) law must occasionally counsel clients on how best to extract value from, or monetize, patents in their portfolio. This is an increasingly important consideration for patent owners as they seek to maximize return from all their assets, including intangible assets. Determining the best approach to take toward patent monetization1 can…
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This edition of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines incorporates the substantial revisions made in 2016 to reflect the clarifications and revisions agreed in the 2015 BEPS Reports on Actions 8-10 Aligning Transfer pricing Outcomes with Value Creation and on Action 13 Transfer Pricing Documentation and Country-by-Country Reporting. It also includes the revised guidance on safe…
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