Excellent Sentences from Joff Wild at IAM

However, how do you measure value when IP can be so frustratingly intangible - what price that collaborative relationship with a competitor that a piece of IP may enable, for example? One at least partial solution to this conundrum may be to make royalty rates far more transparent. One suggestion was that all licensing deals agreed in the US should be publicly recorded at the USPTO so that people could see the sums involved. This would have to be compulsory as no-one would do it voluntarily.

From the IAM Blog.