Intellectual Property Valuation Services

Valuing intellectual property requires an understanding of the legal rights afforded to intangible concepts, ideas, and expressions of ideas. The world is evolving into an intangible-based economy where intellectual property contributes more to a company’s bottom line than does its physical assets. Ideas, expressions of ideas, and intangible assets such as goodwill lose their value, or at least a substantial portion of their value, without a legal framework to identify, standardize, and protect them from misappropriation and infringement. The first step in valuing intellectual property is to understand the foundational legal construct which significantly contributes to an asset’s value. Trademarks, patents, and copyrights are valuable because they are afforded legal protection. Where legal protection is weak, such as in emerging economies, intellectual property is much less valuable.   

Intellectual capital is human knowledge as it applies to a business enterprise. Business intellectual capital (knowledge) can be grouped into four principal classifications: human capital, structural capital, customer capital, and intellectual property. All are business assets because they create probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a result of past transactions and legal rights.

The current accounting model, which focuses on tangible assets and historical cost, does a particularly poor job of tracking and accounting for intellectual assets. The current model is a holdover from the past manufacturing-driven economy. In consequence, business models and organizational structures that use the current output from the accounting model also do a poor job of managing intellectual assets. To extract maximum value, intellectual assets need to factor into the acquiring company’s strategic thinking. Extracting value from an acquired company’s intellectual assets begins with something as simple as tracking and accounting for the intellectual assets owned by the business—the very thing the current accounting model fails to do effectively.

Serving Clients Since 1986

At Hampton IP, we value intellectual property based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal rights our constitution and laws prescribe to each asset, then consider the cost, market, and income approaches to quantify a monetary value based on the perceived benefits of the asset.

We have served clients for more than three decades. Our experience has gained us a reputation as a trusted source for litigation support. Courts rely on our knowledge, education, and experience to place a monetary value on intellectual property assets.

Our services include:

• Licensing
• Strategic analysis
• Identifying an appropriate royalty base
• Establishing royalty rates
• Identifying enforcement targets and probable recoveries
• Royalty compliance audits
• Value patents, trademarks, copyrights trade secrets, and know-how
• Calculation of economic damages

Why We Are the Preferred Choice

Our knowledge comes from years of experience working with IP attorneys and technology transfer professionals. Hampton IP has the knowledge and experience necessary to value patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. 

• We bring professional competence to each engagement.
• We specialize in intellectual property and the unique body of laws that govern intellectual property damages.
• The Hampton IP expert consulting staff is efficient.
  We have been engaged to calculate economic damages in more than 300 intellectual property litigation matters in jurisdictions across the United States.
• We are persuasive because we know intellectual property damages.
  Our experts have been deposed and cross-examined by the country’s finest IP attorneys.
• We will help you develop a winning case strategy.
  We help streamline your discovery requests, craft effective Rule 26 expert reports, and persuade judges and juries at deposition and trial.

We often provide expert witness testimony on:

• Patent Infringement
• Copyright Infringement
• Trademark Infringement
• Trade Dress Infringement
• Trade Secret Misappropriation
• Breach of Contract
• Breach of Fiduciary Duty
• False Advertising
• Tortious Interference
• Unfair Competition
• Unjust Enrichment
• Unfair Business Practices
• Preliminary Injunction
• Cybersquatting
• Cyberpiracy
• Dilution
• False Designation of Origin
• Fraud
• Counterfeiting
• Trade Libel
• Business Defamation
• Deceptive Trade Practices
• Negligence