Patent Valuation: Improving Decision Making through Analysis: 571 (Wiley Finance)

In today’s economy, entrepreneurial energies, government attention, and every company’s resources are rightly so more and more focused on developing various forms of intellectual property (IP), with patents predominantly viewed as the most important of these intellectual property assets. Patent Valuation: Improving Decision Making through Analysis enhances the understanding of these assets by providing IP managers, IP creators, attorneys, and government officials with a hands-on resource that allows them to use actual or implied valuations when making patent-related decisions.

In Patent Valuation, intellectual property experts William Murphy, John Orcutt, and Paul Remus explore a broad range of topics, including:

• Foundations for patent valuation and decision making
• Using valuation analysis to improve patent decision making
• Using disassembly to develop higher quality data
• Patent valuation techniques
• Valuing patents using option pricing
• Unlocking the potential value within patents

Valuation, particularly with regard to patents, continues to be an increasingly important element in management, litigation, administrative proceedings, and basic decision making, as well as in informing complex legislative and policy choices. Filled with illustrative cases, step-by-step valuation techniques, user-friendly procedures and checklists, Patent Valuation is a practical guide accessible to the complete spectrum of decision makers in the patent process.

WILLIAM J. MURPHY is a Professor of Law and Chair of the Commerce and Technology Law Graduate Program at the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly the Franklin Pierce Law Center), one of the top schools of intellectual property in the country. Murphy cofounded UNH Law’s Intellectual Property Valuation Institute and currently serves as its director. He is the author of R&D Cooperation among Marketplace Competitors. Murphy earned a JD degree from Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law, and he holds master and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School.

JOHN L. ORCUTT is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Orcutt cofounded UNH Law’s Intellectual Property Valuation Institute and its International Technology Transfer Institute. Orcutt is the author of Shaping China’s Innovation Future: University Technology Transfer in Transition. Before coming to UNH Law, Orcutt worked as a Silicon Valley investment banker and a capi-tal markets attorney. Orcutt earned a JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

PAUL C. REMUS is a shareholder of the law firm of Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A., in Manchester, New Hampshire. Remus concentrates his intellectual property practice in prosecuting patent applications, drafting noninfringement opinions, and licensing technology. He also mediates disputes involving intellectual property and is on the U.S. District Court Mediation Panel List. Remus also represents both companies and venture capitalists in private placements and other financing involving intellectual property. Remus earned a JD degree from the University of Michigan.