Advisory Services
Do you know how your business’s IP quality and management compares to that owned or operated by your competitors? Do you know how your IP management and governance measures up against the policies implemented by the world’s leading IP companies?
Intangibles and intellectual property are estimated now to represent more than 75% of the value of all major capital markets and IP is described as an emerging asset class. The world’s leading IP companies (amongst them Philips, Nokia, Thomson, Microsoft, HP, GSK, Apple and Google) all actively understand, manage and maximise value from their IP and, by doing so, improve shareholder value.
Companies demonstrating IP sophistication and management demonstrably and consistently out-perform their markets and competitors. ipVA’s belief is that, increasingly, the world’s leading companies will be assessed and rated on their ability to create and deliver maximum value from those assets.
But surprisingly few companies ask themselves how they measure up against market peers or comparable companies, or against the practices of the world’s best IP companies and define their policies and future plans accordingly.
ipVA has developed its proprietary iV Ratings™ to provide transparent benchmarks in the areas of IP Strategy™, IP Assets and Asset Quality™, IP Risks and Risk Management™, IP Licensing and IP Governance™.
ipVA delivers its iV Ratings™ to investors or M&A acquirers as part of its IP diligence reviews. We also rate each business we work with as part of an IP Strategy or IP Governance project to provide transparency on how it rates, and how it should rate.
The target is to give IP Clarity™ to enable more accurate investment decisions to be taken, or to create a business case for investing in the IP area. The target is also to provide our clients and their stakeholders with transparency in understanding how the business or target company should and can be objectively measured.