Intellectual Property Assets

Traditional financial reporting is ill-equiped to deal with intellectual property rights, a growing asset class which continue to to be integral to the financial health of many companies. The invisibility of corporate IP information is problematic and is compunded by underdeveloped corporate reporting of valuable IP assets. This book examines the legal theory and accounting principles essential to management of IP assets, providing practical guidance on the ownership and management of specific types of IP information, developing quantative, qualitative and strategic IP information for stakeholders and strategy disclosure models in order to meet existing legal corporate disclosure requirements across a range of company sizes and types. Traditional financial reporting is ill-equiped to deal with intellectual property rights, a growing asset class which continue to to be integral to the financial health of many companies. The invisibility of corporate IP information is problematic and is compunded by underdeveloped corporate reporting of valuable IP assets. This book examines the legal theory and accounting principles essential to management of IP assets, providing practical guidance on the ownership and management of specific types of IP information, developing quantative, qualitative and strategic IP information for stakeholders and strategy disclosure models in order to meet existing legal corporate disclosure requirements across a range of company sizes and types.