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MMARKET ANALYSIS
Market size at a glance. Volume, growth, and forecast by technology sector
$171.9bn
SALES IN TECH SECTOR · 2025
▲ 547.0% vs. 2015
$44.2bn
MARKET CAP · 2025
▲ 149.3% vs. 2015
0.26
P/S RATIO · 2025
sector average
+20.5%
REVENUE CAGR · 2015–25
compound annual
SALES IN TECH SECTOR

Annual aggregated sales, USD. Solid = actual, dashed = forecast.

2015 — 2028
$320bn
$240bn
$160bn
$80bn
$0
$172
$301
'15
'17
'19
'21
'23
'25
'27
'28

Without a defensible number, you negotiate blind.

01

Classic appraisals take months.

By the time the valuation lands, the market has moved. Opportunities expire while you wait.

02

The data sits scattered.

Patents, financials, market figures and deals live in separate sources. No one brings them together.

03

Gut feeling holds up to no scrutiny.

In front of investors, buyers and the board, only what you can prove counts.

From request to decision in three steps.

01 — Name your technology

You tell us your technology field or your patent portfolio. That's all the input it takes.

02 — mar:val analyzes

Patent, financial and market data are linked and valued across two independent methods.

03 — Delivered decision-ready

You receive an interactive dashboard and a branded PDF report. Ready to use, with no rework.

Why it works

Defensible results from independent data sources.

None of the five data sources answers the value question alone. Linked together they form a picture that two independent calculation paths confirm.

See the data behind mar:val

Patent data, company financials, market and sector data, deals and investments and researched context link into one picture at company level. Two independent paths — one from the market, one from the portfolio — derive a value from it, and converge on the same range.

Five data sources
213M+
Patent data
documents within reach
Families, legal status, citations, coverage
87M+
Company financials
records within reach · 30 years of history
Revenue, R&D, market capitalization
2,018
Market and sector
economic data points analysed
Sector revenue, WACC, royalty rate
17,707
Deals and investments
investment events analysed
Acquisitions, rounds, transfers
161
Researched context
analyses run
Product families, key people
One linked picture
AT COMPANY LEVEL
Two independent calculation paths
375
From the market
adoption curves behind the forecast
Sector revenue · Royalty rate · Market share
702,315+
From the portfolio
valuations computed
Strength of each individual patent family
YOUR TECHNOLOGY
$3.4 – 4.8M
Both calculation paths converge on the same band
Illustrative range — your figure comes from your own portfolio
DEFENSIBLETRACEABLE
ASSUMPTIONS OPEN IN THE REPORT · WACC · ROYALTY RATE

Six perspectives. One verdict.

Every Market Insights Report answers the questions that deals fail on.

01 — Overview

The whole market on one page.

Market size, patent landscape and R&D intensity as an executive summary. After five minutes you know where you stand.

MARKET SIZE
$2.4B
GROWTH
+8.6%
PATENTS
1,284
PATENT PORTFOLIO
Granted948
Pending336
Applicants42
REVENUE & FORECAST BY SECTOR
ActualForecast
02 — Market

See where the market is heading.

Revenue, growth and forecast per technology sector, plus the innovation matrix: patent growth against revenue growth, directly comparable.

03 — Companies

Know every player before you talk to them.

Financials, growth, R&D and patent strength of every relevant company, distilled into the mar:val Score. Compare profiles side by side.

COMPANYREVENUEGROWTHmar:val SCORE
MedTronix$8.4M+34%87
BioSense AG$5.1M+19%74
CoreDex$3.9M+12%66
Novalis$2.2M+41%61
1MedTronix92%
2BioSense AG78%
3CoreDex64%
4Novalis57%
04 — Matchmaking

Your most likely buyers. By name.

A ranking of concrete companies with match score and contacts. Instead of months of searching, you start with a ready shortlist.

05 — Technologies

Know what every patent is worth.

Portfolio value by company, country and technology cluster, plus your market's lifecycle curve. Run scenarios right in the dashboard.

PORTFOLIO VALUE BY CLUSTER
Sensorics$1.7M
Actuators$0.9M
Control$0.6M
Drive$0.4M
Optics$0.3M
INVESTMENTS BY YEAR
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24
Fair value (listed)$3.4M — $4.8M
06 — Investments

See where the money flows.

Acquisitions, stakes and funding rounds per company, with sources. Plus a fair-value estimate of listed players.

One tool, six situations.

Find your situation. Each one leads to the numbers that actually count there — and to the arguments you can make with them.

01Sell & license

You own the patent. You don't know what it's worth or who would pay for it.

  • Buyers ranked by measured fit, not by gut feeling.
  • Six score components — plus how sure the model is.
  • Contacts with a name and a role.
Matchmaking · buyer ranking
Illustrative · anonymised

A radar across the six components of the match score shows the profile of the selected candidate buyer. Beside it a ranking of four candidates with their match score, plus the confidence rating and the strongest piece of evidence.

Potential buyers
Match score
92
Confidence
High
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02Invest & acquire

You're about to put money in. The pitch deck is not evidence.

  • A 0–100 ranking plus insolvency risk by Altman and Zmijewski.
  • Fair value on five bases — the spread is the answer.
  • Funding and acquisition history, with sources.
Investments · fair value
Illustrative · anonymised

A share price across 24 periods, behind it a fair-value line with valuation bands from ten to forty per cent. The line and the over- or undervaluation verdict change with the chosen valuation basis.

Valuation basis
Deviation from fair value
+12 %
Overvalued
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03Steer your portfolio

Renewal fees are due. Which families earn their keep?

  • Three valuation approaches — you see the spread yourself.
  • Fees from real fee schedules, not a flat assumption.
  • Scenarios that never touch the real data.
Technologies · portfolio value
Illustrative · anonymised

The total value of a portfolio of 412 patent families, the number of families that come out at zero, and a histogram of the value distribution. All three change with the chosen valuation approach and with the deduction of official fees.

Valuation approach
Portfolio value
$36.1M
Patent families
412
of those at zero
0
Value distribution per family
low valuehigh value
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04Read the market

Is this field still worth entering, and who already owns it?

  • A lifecycle curve instead of a growth promise.
  • Revenue by country, with the growth multiple per country.
  • Academic filers reported separately from industry.
Technologies · lifecycle
Illustrative · anonymised

A curve of patent applications against the number of distinct applicants, one dot per year from 2012 to 2026. The slider picks a year; filings, applicant count and lifecycle phase are reported for it.

Year
2018
Growth
Filings
276
Applicants
64
Pick a year
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05Freedom to operate

You're about to launch. Whose patent are you standing on?

  • Every claim mapped onto your product features.
  • An unverified legal status never yields "low risk".
  • A design-around for every high and medium finding.
Freedom to operate · findings
Illustrative · anonymised

A list of four patent holders that could block the product under review, ordered high, medium, not rated, low, each with its earliest relevant expiry. For the selected holder the claim element chart of the decisive claim is shown: per limitation the product features involved and whether the product practises it, plus the classification, the deal action and the design-around.

Scope EP · US · CN · JP × Make · Use · Sell · Import
Partial screen
Who can block you
Claim element chart
EP3149872B1 · EP · Claim 1
(a)F1Yes
(b)F2·F3Yes
(c)F4Yes
(d)F4·F5YesDecisive element
Claim may read on the productTake a licence
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06Technology transfer

You've researched something new. Who brings it to market with you?

  • Each invention valued in its market, with the revenue a partner would need.
  • Partners ranked by measured fit, with evidence per candidate.
  • Decision-makers at the partner, by name and role.
Technologies · inventions to market
Illustrative · anonymised

A list of six patented inventions of one research institute, sortable by value, remaining term or coverage. For the selected invention the top-down value, the annual revenue a partner would need, the remaining term, the jurisdictions covered and the best-placed partner from matchmaking are shown.

Sort by
Your inventions
Value (top-down)
$2.4M
Required revenue
$11.8M
Remaining term
13 yrs
Coverage
EPUSCNJPKR
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Frequently asked questions

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