Royalty Rates for Licensing Intellectual Property includes critical information on financial theory, rules of thumb, industry guidelines, litigation based royalty rates, and tables of actual rates from real deals for different industries.
About the Author. Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Chapter 1: Intellectual Property and Corporate Value.
Patents.
Patent Trends.
Who Owns the Most Patents?
Technology Classifications.
History of U.S. Patent Applications.
Trademarks.
Copyrights.
Trade Secrets.
Evaluating Trade Secrets.
Chapter 2: Licensing Intellectual Property.
Forces Behind Licensing.
Licensing Motivation.
Reasons Companies Engage in Licensing.
Chapter 3: Use of the Twenty-Five Percent Rule in Valuing IP.
Introduction.
History of the Rule.
Explanation of the Rule.
Illustration of the Rule.
Application of the Rule.
Justification for the Rule.
Criticisms of the Rule.
Empirical Test of the Rule.
Royalty Rates.
Industry Profits.
Licensee Profits.
Royalty Rates and Licensee Profits.
Successful Licensee Profits.
Royalty Rates and Successful Licensee Profits.
Conclusions.
Chapter 4: Royalty Rate Guidelines.
Royalty Rates for Technology, Third Edition.
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