Patentsasasourceofbusinessinformation.pptVIP

Patents as a source of business information Johannes Schaaf 4.5.3 Problem Pure counting of patents is often not appropriate without taking the importance of the invention into consideration. Suggestions to assess importance Family size Triadic patents (US, JP and EP) Duration of patent in force Citation information Part 2Patent Valuation andPatent Portfolio Management External information What ?value“ really means Empirical distribution of patent value Thank you for yourattention */27 Market value (license analogy, relief from royalty) Can be simple and fast Accepted Seems to be objectiv