We have one patent family, not a portfolio.

Value is derived per family anyway — claim breadth, remaining term, jurisdictions, market coverage. The portfolio is only the sum. For finding buyers what matters is the field around you, not how many families you hold.

Where do the candidate buyers come from?

From the companies filing and manufacturing in the same technology field. Each one arrives with a financial profile, a filing history and an acquisition record — which is what makes the ranking more than a list of names.

What if the answer is inconvenient?

Then it says so. Missing evidence is reported as missing rather than as unremarkable — and an empty field is a permissible result.

mar:val01 — Sell & license

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

mar:val gives you both: a value you can justify, and a ranking of the companies with a reason to buy exactly your technology.

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Who has a reason to buy your patent?

The score rewards fit and subtracts redundancy: a candidate that already holds your technology is not a buyer. Click down the ranking — the last one is technically the closest of the four, and that is exactly why it comes last.

Matchmaking · buyer ranking

Illustrative · anonymised

Potential buyers

Match score

Confidence

High

Strongest evidence

Strong patent-pair fit, no overlap with its own filings, three acquisitions in the field — a buyer with the means and the motive.

Technical fit · Geographic opportunity · Complementarity · Patent & product activity · Acquisition signals · Financial capacity

Who this is for

Patent holdersLicensing & royalty teamsPatent funds & brokersIP valuers working on a mandate

What you take into the negotiation

Match score 0–100

Composition published: 60 % strategic opportunity, 20 % buyer intent, 20 % deal capacity. Not a black-box figure.

Confidence, not false precision

Every score arrives as high, medium or low. Where the data is thin, the tool says so instead of guessing.

Evidence per candidate

Strongest patent pair, semantic proximity, technology-category overlap, market-extension opportunity. You see why someone ranks where they do.

Redundancy is subtracted

Someone who already owns your technology is not a buyer. The model penalises that case rather than ranking it up.

Caps, not averages

A candidate with almost no technical fit, or no financial capacity, is capped whatever the rest of its score says. A good average cannot paper over a missing precondition.

A value with a derivation

Patent value, value after tax and the revenue it requires — per patent family; the annual licence fee at the field's royalty rate — per company.

Evidence that this market trades

The transfer rate for active patents in your field plus the median deal size of the investments recorded there. A market you can point to.

Who to contact

The decision-makers over patent and R&D strategy at the candidate, with their role and a direct LinkedIn search.

Strategic position

Scale & protect, innovate & in-license, partner & out-license, or exit & divest — the quadrant your portfolio sits in, by technology and resource strength.

Why the figure survives scrutiny

Patent value does not come from an estimate. It comes from the licence fee you are spared because you own the technology rather than rent it — the established relief-from-royalty approach of professional IP valuation.

See the data behind mar:val

Relief from royalty: named, not implied.
Two independent derivations — from the size of the market and from the owner's real revenue — with a published precedence rule.
Quality signals in the open: claim breadth, technological reach, citations, the economic complexity of the filing country, market coverage.
Bass diffusion times Weibull survival probability, multiplied year by year.
Renewal fees are calculated, but never silently deducted.

What you are probably asking now

You get the figure and its derivation — method, assumptions, weights, sources. That is what separates it from a number pulled out of the air: the other side can recompute every step instead of having to believe you.

The other five situations

02Invest & acquireYou're about to put money in. The pitch deck is not evidence.03Steer your portfolioRenewal fees are due. Which families earn their keep?04Read the marketIs this field still worth entering, and who already owns it?05Freedom to operateYou're about to launch. Whose patent are you standing on?06Technology transferYou've researched something new. Who brings it to market with you?

Know what your technology is worth.

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