Method for obtaining and allocating investment income based on the capitalization of intellectual property
AssigneeTEQ Development
InventorDouglas R. Elliott
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Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of valuing property assets and methods of securitizing such assets. The present invention provides a means whereby holders or owners of proprietary intellectual property may readily determine the value to the business of the securitization of their intellectual property estate and obtain capital by securitizing all or part of their intellectual property estate.
Claims18
An electronic data processing system for use by an investment entity for managing the transfer and allocation of monetary funds between a portfolio of investor accounts held by at least one investor, and a portfolio of at least one business account held by at least one original owner of a portfolio of at least one patent, the system comprising:
- (a) means for recording data;
- (b) means for crediting on the recording means for each respective investor account funds obtained from each respective investor, and for allocating to each investor account a percentage share that each investor account holds relative to the portfolio of investor accounts;
- (c) means for using at least one computer processor algorithm for determining the value of the patent portfolio;
- (d) means for recording on the recording means the value of the patent portfolio;
- (e) means for indicating on the recording means that a predetermined quantity of the funds from the portfolio of investor accounts are transferred to the at least one business account upon the transfer of title to each patent of the portfolio of at least one patent from the at least one original owner to a subsequent owner other than the original owner;
- (f) means for granting of a right to use the portfolio of at least one patent from the subsequent owner to at least the original owner in exchange for at least one payment to the business account, wherein the right granted to the original owner is less than an entire exclusive right to the portfolio;
- (g) means for indicating on the recording means that the at least one payment is transferred from the business account to the portfolio of investor accounts;
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- (h) means for indicating on the recording means that each payment to the portfolio of investor accounts is allocated to each investor account according to the percentage share that each respective investor account holds in the portfolio of investor accounts.
An electronic data processing system for use by an investment entity for managing the transfer and allocation of monetary funds between a portfolio of investor accounts held by at least one investor, and a portfolio of at least one business account held by at least one original owner of a portfolio of at least one patent, the system comprising:
- (a) means for processing data;
- (b) means for storage operatively connected to the means for processing data;
- (c) means for crediting on the storage means each respective investor account with funds obtained from each respective investor, and for allocating to each investor account a percentage share that each investor account holds relative to the portfolio of investor accounts;
- (d) means for using at least one computer processor algorithm for determining a value of the patent portfolio;
- (e) means for indicating on the storage means the value of the patent portfolio;
- (f) means for indicating on the storage means that a predetermined quantity of the funds from the portfolio of at least one investor account are transferred to the at least one business account upon the transfer of title to each patent of the portfolio of at least one patent from the at least one original owner to a subsequent owner other than the original owner;
- (g) means for granting of a right to use the portfolio of at least one patent from the subsequent owner to at least the original owner in exchange for at least one payment to the business account, wherein the right to use granted to the original owner is less than an entire exclusive right to use;
- (h) means for indicating on the storage means that the at least one payment is transferred from the business account to the portfolio of investor accounts;
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- (i) means for indicating on the storage means that each payment to the portfolio of investor accounts is allocated to each investor account according to the percentage share that each respective investor account holds in the portfolio of investor accounts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.