IPRSCORE™
The IPRSCORE™ evaluates the strength of a company’s IP assets and likely contribution to its competitive moat, regardless of stage (pre-revenue vs revenue-generating), sector, size or geography.
We score & benchmark businesses across 5 IP asset classes, (1) Brand, (2) Patents, (3) Software, (4) Critical Databases and (5) Trade Secrets which means fast growing service businesses, tech businesses, pre-revenue R&D focused spin-outs and healthcare software / app businesses, can all benchmark their IP strength and performance on a level playing field, even if they only score in one or two IP asset classes.
The IPRSCORE™ (i) provides companies with a clear, compelling benchmark and narrative about their IP assets, and (ii) acts as a trusted signal that cuts through the noise for Lenders & Investors.
Brand Strength
An Excellent Brand Score often includes evidence of:
Strong Collateral: A portfolio of registered trademarks that can be secured as formal collateral by a lender.
Strong Market Position: Blue-chip customers/enterprise customers and international coverage.
Scalability & Exit: Achieving significant brand awareness and reputational benefit across global territories, which could widen the buyer pool and licensing opportunities, increasing value in M&A.
Patent Portfolio Strength
An Excellent Patent Score often includes evidence of:
Strong Collateral: The company has a number of potentially valuable granted patents that can be secured as formal collateral by lenders.
Broad Moat: Relevant granted patents in major commercial territories acting as a strong barrier to entry.
Scalability & Exit: Strong forward citations (highlighting potential future licensing opportunities and/or buyers in an M&A scenario).
Critical Databases Strength
An Excellent Critical Database Score often includes evidence of:
Proprietary: Valuable data that is difficult and costly to recreate.
Materiality: Valuable data that is material to operations and directly underpins cash flows.
Scalability & Exit: Data that’s being leveraged to improve margins and/or reduce customer acquisition costs, appealing to buyers in M&A.
Software Strength
An Excellent Software Score often includes evidence of:
Business Model: Valuable software that underpins the core product/service offering, perhaps generating recurring revenue/ARR.
Uniqueness: Technology that is difficult to recreate and not readily available off-the-shelf, and backed up to private cloud / escrow to maintain data integrity and collateral value.
Scalability & Exit: Fully documented software process and developer documentation supporting business growth and ensuring smooth handover in exit/sale.
Trade Secret Strength
An Excellent Trade Secrets Score often includes evidence of:
Governance: A formal, documented trade secrets (TS) policy in place (not just critical “know-how”).
Security: Strong enforcement measures with dedicated TS Manager, restricting access, ensuring no leakage to partners, key customers, suppliers or competitors.
Scalability & Exit Value: Well-maintained and actively protected trade secrets (algorithms, key databases, recipes, innovations, processes, methodologies etc.) boosting scale up and exit valuation.
The IPRSCORE™ is institutionally designed, empirically validated, and aligned to global IP standards
Built by IP Experts, with over 20 years of IP domain experience with deep, real-world experience transacting, valuing, and enforcing intellectual property/intangible assets.
We have consistently observed a strong correlation between IPRSCORES and Patsnap’s indicator-based patent valuation outputs. This independent alignment validates the IPRSCORE™ as a reliable proxy for IP strength, quality, and scalability
The framework incorporates WIPO-recommended best practices, ensuring the IPRSCORE™aligns with internationally recognized IP standards — critical for lenders and investors operating across jurisdictions.