Practical primers

There is no doubt intellectual property holds immense value in today’s global business climate. There are multiple ways to unlock and extract IP value via investment and innovative IP financial products.

This section of the report provides practical, how-to advice from IP finance experts about demonstrating intellectual property value when seeking financial support. Their nuts-and-bolts primers will enable chief IP officers to follow a sure path to obtain financing using IP.

Presenting a compelling intellectual property story can make a difference in whether a company’s efforts to attract venture capitalists will win an investment. Our first article explores how to use IP ownership data and IP landscape analyses in your narrative to show investors that your company’s product meets market demands, that consumers are adopting your solution, and that you can execute your growth plans.

There comes a time in a successful, cash-generating company’s life when it needs an injection of capital to attain business goals, but it rejects the unattractive prospect of further dilution via equity investment. Our second article is a practical primer on how a company can use its intellectual property as collateral to obtain debt financing while purchasing an insurance policy to protect the lender in case it defaults on the loan.

Another way to leverage financing to extract considerable value from patents involves partnering with legal finance providers to share the risk and costs of enforcement in the courts. Our third article explains the process of securing legal finance for a patent infringement litigation campaign and shows examples of how the maths works in financed claims.