EVALUATION OF PROTECTIVE RIGHTS AND IP PORTFOLIOS

• Are intellectual property protection rights (patents, utility models, trademarks, designs) always only seen from your enterprise’s cost-management point of view?
• Do you sometimes ask yourself what your patents or trademarks are worth?
• Would you like to sell or buy protective rights, but don’t know what prices are suitable?

“Intellectual property” resulting from research and development is gaining more and more value for enterprises right now in the innovative European world. Lawmakers accomidated for this by making it possible for people to enter and activate intellectual property created and produced on one’s own in their balance sheets by passing the Accounting Law Modernization Act in Germany (BilMoG). This concerns in particular intellectual property protection, such as patents, utility models, trademarks and designs, and their worth here.

Trademarks and patents also have an ever-greater role in credit collateralization today. Credit limits can be expanded by pledging intellectual property protection or transferring securities for intellectual property protection to a creditor. Valuable patents and/or trademarks owned by an enterprise can be very beneficial, because they can be used a means of reducing interest rates.  A protective rights portfolio even plays an important role when selling an enterprise.

The first step is getting an appraisal of an enterprise’s current stock of protective rights done, in order to determine what it is worth. You can find complete know-how all in one place at Dreiss Partners Patent Attorneys. We can give you an accurate value appraisal for your protective rights with the information you give us. Our comprehensive technical and judicial team can also conduct due diligence processes, in which, most importantly, the legal aspects of the intellectual property protection at hand are clarified. We can do all of this for you not just for individual protective rights, but also for complete protective rights portfolios. We can also assess your application strategy by using our background knowledge of selected competitors’ strategies, for example.

When we are finished, you’ll have all of the information you will need when you have to talk with your bank, compile your financial records and/or announce your application strategy.