Indeks : p. 365-379 ; In today's economy, entrepreneurial energies, government attention, and every company's resources are -rightly so- more and more focused on developing various forms of intellectual property(IP), with patents predominantly viewed as the most important of these intellectual property assets. This book enhances the understading of these assets by providing IP managers, IP creators, attorneys, and government officials with a hands-on resource that allows them to use actual or implied valuation when making patent-related decisions