<p>In today's economy, entrepreneurial energies, government attention, and every company's resources arerightly somore and more focused on developing various forms of intellectual property (IP), with patents predominantly viewed as the most important of these intellectual property assets. <i>Patent Valuation: Improving Decision Making through Analysis</i> 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. <p>In <i>Patent Valuation</i>, intellectual property experts William Murphy, John Orcutt, and Paul Remus explore a broad range of topics, including: <ul> <li>Foundations for patent valuation and decision making</li> <li>Using valuation analysis to improve patent decision making</li> <li>Using disassembly to develop higher quality data</li> <li>Patent valuation techniques</li> <li>Valuing patents using option pricing</li> <li>Unlocking the potential value within patents</li> </ul> <p>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, <i>Patent Valuation</i> is a practical guide accessible to the complete spectrum of decision makers in the patent process.