How to protect your most valuable asset*
Often the cornerstone of a business, intellectual property (IP) assets must be rigorously protected and effectively managed to maintain company value. When IP and licensing disputes do arise, organizations need to quantify the assets at stake, demonstrating their value clearly, concisely and credibly.
If this is your situation
- You need help evaluating IP damages claims
- You want expert testimony to communicate complex ideas during trial or through deposition
- You need a valuation of your IP assets and advice on licensing, sale and management of your worldwide IP
- You want to assess whether licensees and business partners are in compliance with terms of applicable agreements and reporting procedures
- You face a claim involving patent misuse, predatory pricing, tying, attempted monopolization, barriers to entry and unfair competition
- You want to enhance the effectiveness of your R&D function
How PricewaterhouseCoopers can help you
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) provides companies with advice and assistance in a wide range of IP matters, including dispute and analysis services, valuation, royalty examinations and antitrust issues. With significant experience in IP matters and our extensive resources, we provide companies with credible, clearly conveyed analysis supported by the appropriate research and experience.
Services we provide include the following:
- Evaluating IP damages claims by analyzing sales, cost, financial, market and other economic data, often under lost profits and reasonable royalty methodologies
- Testifying as expert witness through deposition or at trial on the value of IP assets or damages
- Conducting valuations of IP assets using a wide variety of methodologies
- Advising clients on the compliance of licensees and business partners with the terms of applicable agreements and royalty reporting procedures
- Supporting IP disputes involving patent misuse, predatory pricing, tying, attempted monopolization, barriers to entry and unfair competition
- Advising on economic alternatives for enhancing the R&D function
