How We Value Patents

Patent Suggested Retail Price (PSRP) is a structured, explainable estimate, not a formal appraisal. We separate signals that are typically available from USPTO-grounded workflows and Global Family Intelligence from supplemental context that may appear when data exists in your environment or report.

Our valuation approach

PSRP blends category scores (legal strength, market potential, transactional data, technical quality, and business context) into a single estimate with confidence and peer context where available. Category weights and proprietary scoring remain adaptive; what follows is transparency into the kinds of inputs we use, not a promise that every signal appears on every patent.

When you run valuation in IP Brainbox, outputs are designed for portfolio conversations: maintenance gates, pruning, licensing prioritization, and investor summaries. Always pair PSRP with counsel, your own policies, and data you are entitled to use.

Current core signals

What typically drives PSRP today

Grounded in USPTO-visible data, Global Family Intelligence, and assets you actively track in IP Brainbox.

✓Claims, specification, and bibliographic data
✓USPTO patent data
✓Global Family Intelligence: foreign family members and legal-status indicators
✓Citation signals where available
✓Maintenance-fee data where available
✓Assignment and ownership signals where available
✓Remaining life and procedural indicators
✓Portfolio context when assets are tracked in your account

Supplemental or enhanced signals

What may enrich the picture

Included when available, not claimed on every asset or in every report field.

○Peer patent context
○Public transaction and licensing references where available
○Market and industry indicators
○Product and commercial evidence
○Litigation or enforcement indicators where available

Global Family Intelligence data sources

Foreign family linkage and legal-status indicators for U.S. assets tracked in your portfolio.

Global Family Intelligence links your U.S. patents to foreign family members and surfaces legal-status indicators from public records. Indicators are automated decision support, not legal opinions on enforceability, validity, or current status.

Family bibliographic data and legal events are derived from EPO DOCDB bibliographic records and INPADOC legal-event data where matched to your U.S. assets, alongside USPTO records for domestic workflows.

Claim-scope analytics (today)

Claim breadth is a front-facing part of PSRP and MFA reports, not a hidden model weight. Full claim breadth overview

Independent claim countAvailable
Total claims / dependency structureAvailable
Claim breadth score (legal strength)Available
Claim length / clarity proxiesAvailable
CPC / technical fieldAvailable
Competitor overlapAvailable
Family / continuation contextAvailable
Functional vs structural languageExpanding
Specification support flagsExpanding

Claim-scope analytics and claim-breadth indicators only. Not a legal opinion on validity, enforceability, or infringement.

PSRP category framework

Reports group drivers into five categories so you can see where the model tilted, not just the headline number.

Legal Strength

Market Potential

Transactional Data

Technical Quality

Business Context

Important disclaimer

PSRP estimates are algorithmic assessments for informational and internal portfolio management purposes only. They are not legal appraisals, financial advice, or investment recommendations. Actual market values may vary based on negotiations, licensing terms, and other business factors. See our PSRP disclaimer and consult qualified professionals for legal, financial, or investment decisions.