Re: Evaluation of a Patent Portfolio
Carl Oppedahl (carl@oppedahl.com)
Fri, 1 Mar 96 15:44 GMT
At 06:10 AM 03/01/96 GMT, "Alexander,Shan,JS"
<ALEXANJS@sunbury5.hou.xwh.bp.com> wrote:
>
>I am looking for information on evaluating a patent portfolio as a financial
>asset where the worth of the patents themselves is evaluated independently
>of the worth of the technology they cover. Each patent in each country will
>require individual assessment but are there any underlying principles that
>can be used? If anyone has any experience in this field or can guide me to
>any papers, etc. on the subject, I should be very pleased to hear from them.
The task you have set for yourself is a very difficult one, since such
evaluations are normally extremely subjective. Only in the most rare cases
(e.g. each patent in the portfolio has a very predictable royalty stream