Valuation of Patents for Securitization : Factors and Method

Intellectual property rights and assets have become a major contributor to market capitalization for different companies. This book discusses the processes of valuation of patents and the legal and regulatory concerns around patent securitization.

Patents are used as an instrument of securitization to attract funds towards supporting further research and monetisation which opens-up new areas of research. They are utilised through means such as licensing, sale and purchase, financing and others. This book provides an in-depth look into the importance of patents and more importantly their securitization. It analyses the patent securitization applications as well as existing methods towards gauging the suitability of patents. The authors explore simple yet suitable methods for the valuation of patents that can be applied to the existing models to arrive at a pragmatic value. The book also includes studies and tests these systems for their reliability and application in different research areas and companies.

This book will be of interest to practitioners involved in financing and monetisation of patents, academics, researchers and students working in patent valuation, financial management, economics international economics.

Arundhati Banerjee (PhD) has worked on different projects involving financial operations. She is involved in active research and is a practitioner in the area of Intellectual property rights (IPR). Currently, she is Associate Professor at the Post Graduate Institute of Hospital Administration, Peerless Hospital Campus, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Rajdeep Bakshi (PhD, MBA, MIIM, PGDBM, PGDSM, PGDCA) is an educationalist and serves as an expert in educational quality control issues and outcome-based education implementation. His area of expertise is intangible asset (brand) valuation. He was the former Dean (Business Management) at Budge Budge Institute of Technology in Kolkata, India. He was also the former Head, Faculty of Business Management at the Guru Nanak Institute of Technology Kolkata, India. He was also former Professor of Management in several universities and colleges of repute in India. Currently, he is Guest Professor at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India. He has authored several books and his research has been cited in reputed publications. He is also a former member of the Human Resource Management Committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce, West Bengal, India, and the Secretary of the Association of Indian Management School (Eastern India Chapter) Kolkata, India.

Manas Kumar Sanyal (PhD) is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management at the Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, West Bengal, India. He has acted as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences; Director of the School of Management Sciences and President, of the Institute Innovation Council of the Institute, India. He is also in charge of the Innovation Facilitation Centre, Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Incubation Centre at IIEST, Shibpur. He has successfully undertaken and completed several projects of the Government of India in the area of Intellectual Property Rights.