Intellectual Property Portfolio Securitization: An Evidence Based Analysis

Abstract

In recent years the ongoing innovation of financial tools and of asset backed security practices leads to a growing interest in intellectual property as a relevant source of funding and collateral security.

Considering the new financial solutions with intellectual property as underlying asset and restraining our attention to patents, in this paper we try to assess the existence and the consistence of a market for patent securitization. More analytically, we analyze what is the potential for securitization schemes depending on specific patent features and financial and economic context variables in order to assess the feasibility of patent securitization operations.