Valuation of Intellectual Property Assets

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Valuation Process and deliverables - highlighted
Principles for valuation of Damages - Suggested
Modern methods of Valuation - focused
Goodwill - how to harness the best of it
Creating and extracting value - explained
Legal profile of IP for valuation - discussed
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Description
The importance of intellectual property rights in today's world requires no further emphasis. Today, majority of businesses rely on their intellectual asset base and there is a great need to protect it from being misused. This has resulted in highly complicated yet effective laws regulating the creation, protection and grant of intellectual property rights. With the signing of TRIPs by India, the laws regulating intellectual property rights in India have become updated, international in scope and provide more confidence to the international fraternity to invest both money and intellectual property assets in India. Valuation of intellectual property assets becomes an extremely important subject in this scenario. It is important to set out principles, concepts and methods so that the immense wealth of intellectual creation is known to their owners in a more scientific and reliable way. This book makes an attempt to set out principles, methods, factors and assumptions required to be considered for the purposes of valuation of intellectual property assets. The valuation of intellectual property assets is to a large extent determined by the purpose for which the valuation is being done. There can be a number of reasons why a company or owner of a particular intellectual property asset would want to evaluate and put a price tag on it. It is extremely interesting to note that the purpose of valuation actually determines which method or assumptions and factors will apply for valuation. Keeping in mind the importance of the purpose of valuation, this book explains the description of various purposes for which valuation may be done and how it affects the valuation exercise.
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Contents
Part - I introduction
1.      Introduction
2.      Economics of Intellectual Property
3.      Assets and Intellectual Property Assets
Part - II Legal Underpinnings
4.      Trade Mark Law
5.      Patent Law
6.      Copyright Laws
7.      Other Laws  Affecting the Valuation of Intellectual Property Assets
8.      Legal Underpinnings Regulating Valuation of Damages in a civil Suit
Part - III Valuation, Process and Methodologics
9.      Valuation Process and Methodologies
10.    Market Value Method
11.    Valuation based on cost value of Intellectual Property Asset
12.    Valuation based on Income Value of Intellectual Property Asset
13.    Other Methods of valuation based on Income method
14.    Modern Methods of valuation
Part - IV Value Creation
15.    Creating and Extracting Value
Appendicies
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