Intellectual Property and Assessing its Financial Value

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Intellectual Property and Assessing Its Financial Value

infringement. To prove infringement, the assignee must establish that

the accused infringer practices all the requirements of at least one of the

claims of the patent.

Nevertheless, the vast majority of patent rights are not determined

through litigation, but resolved privately through patent licensing. Patent

licensing agreements are effectively contracts in which the patent owner

(the licensor) agrees to forgo its right to sue the licensee for infringement

of the licensor’s patent rights, usually in return for a royalty or other

compensation. It is common for companies engaged in complex ...