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October 8, 2009 Family-Run Businesses Need to Think Out of the Box

Despite reports that the economy may be on the rebound, a recent Wall Street Journal article discusses how the economic downturn has caused many family businesses to shut their doors. Although the article says that it is difficult to quantify the number of family-owned businesses that have been forced to close, experts believe that these [...]

August 18, 2009 Valuing Intellectual Property: Income/Relief-From-Royalty Approach

This is the last in the series on Valuing Intellectual Property. This post will cover the Income/Relief-From-Royalty Approach. Click on the following to read the first in the series: Valuing Intellectual Property. And, click on the following to read the other two Valuing Intellectual Property break-out posts on Cost Approach and Market Approach. The income [...]

August 13, 2009 Valuing Intellectual Property: Market Approach

To continue our series on the ways to value intellectual property (IP), this third post covers the market approach. Read part one here and part two here.   Under the market approach, appraisers look at sales and licensing agreements of comparable, but unrelated intellectual property. To determine which IP is comparable, an appraiser would look [...]

August 11, 2009 Valuing Intellectual Property: Cost Approach

Following up on last week’s post, Valuing Intellectual Property, this post covers the first valuation methodology: cost approach. Under the cost valuation method, the cost of creating an intellectual property (IP) asset is used to estimate the value of it, but not in the sense that the value of the IP asset is just the [...]

August 6, 2009 Valuing Intellectual Property

For many businesses, intellectual property (IP) assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, software, customer lists, and research, are an important part of their value. Because these assets are intangible, meaning that there is high degree of uncertainty regarding their future worth, it can be extremely difficult to determine their value. However, it is [...]