To provide an apparatus for evaluating intellectual property rights by which values of the intellectual property rights in all fields are objectively evaluated.
The apparatus for evaluating the intellectual property rights comprises: a rights information input section inputting information specifying the intellectual property rights; an execution state investigation section inputting a result obtained by investigating an enterprise executing or hopefully executing the intellectual property rights; a cash flow calculation section calculating the earnings, costs, and gains of a product being an object by referring to an enterprise information database previously storing information useful as a base for calculating the cash flow of the enterprise to calculate the cash flow; a cash flow amendment section amending the cash flow based on specified elements reducing the cash flow; a rights range determination section obtaining a parameter complying with added values provided by the intellectual property rights based on the rights range of the intellectual property rights; and a rights evaluation amount calculation section calculating the evaluation amount of the intellectual property rights by multiplying the amended cash flow by the parameter.
Tadashi Takahashi
Takashi Watanabe
Masakazu Aoyama
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Kazuya Nishi
Yasuhiko Murayama