See Exactly Where Your IP Stands
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.
What Does It Cost?
IPRSCORE™
Free
IPRSCORE™ Interview with IP Experts
IPRSCORE™ Breakdown and Rankings
IP Insights Deck with identified IP Strengths
Company-specific IP Action Plan and Recommendations
Exclusive Company Dashboard
Opportunity to be listed as an ‘Active Deal’ on the IP Marketplace™
RESCORE
$1,000
For companies who have already been IPRSCORED.
Full reassessment across all five IP asset classes
Updated IP Insights Deck & IPRSCORE™ rankings, reflecting IP improvements
Track your progress and demonstrate value creation to investors & lenders
The IPRSCORE Process
01
Account setup & onboarding
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Company Profile completion & VDR upload
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IPRSCORE™ Interview with our team
04
Company Dashboard populated, IPRSCORE™ generated & IP Insights Deck produced
05
Active Deal on the IP Marketplace™
Opportunity to get direct visibility as an ‘Active Deal’ to lenders and investors actively searching for pre-vetted, benchmarked IP-rich companies.
The IPRSCORE™ is relevant at every stage of your company's growth, not just when you're fundraising
M&A
Being acquired or considering an acquisition? A potential buyer will want to know the state, quality, and extent of your IP portfolio, and how quickly it can be packaged to unlock cash flows post-acquisition. Companies with a strong, well-documented IP foundation move through that process faster and at better valuations.
Exit Planning
Preparing for a sale? The IPRSCORE™ provides a clear, defensible basis for valuation conversations, giving a potential acquirer a data-driven view of how defensible your IP is and how it would be assessed in an M&A scenario. A strong, improving IPRSCORE™ is a direct signal of a widening competitive moat and increasing business valuation.
Post-Fundraise / Scale-Up
Just closed a round? Companies use the IPRSCORE™ post-fundraise to demonstrate value creation to investors ahead of subsequent fundraises, M&A, or exit. An improving IPRSCORE™ is a signal of a strengthening competitive moat - exactly what your next investor wants to see.
Early Stage / Pre-Revenue
Pre-revenue and building? The IPRSCORE™ levels the playing field regardless of stage, and getting IPRSCORED early identifies IP gaps while there is still time to address them, before those gaps become liabilities in fundraising or diligence conversations.
Joint Ventures & Partnerships
Entering a JV, licensing deal, or strategic partnership? Your IPRSCORE™ gives you a clear, credible benchmark of what you're bringing to the table, and the IP Insights Deck gives you the language to articulate it compellingly.
Fundraising
Planning a raise in the next 6–12 months? Pre-revenue companies with strong IP assets can and do score well, and a strong IPRSCORE™ gets you in front of lenders and investors much earlier and with more credibility than traditional financial metrics alone.
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, offering preference to a lender.
Strong Economic Value: Brand(s) that command price premiums and measurable customer loyalty.
Scalability & Exit: Proven international reach and category expansion, including through partnerships, licensing/franchising.
Patent Portfolio Strength
An Excellent Patent Score often includes evidence of:
Strong Collateral: A number of potentially valuable granted patents that can be secured as formal collateral by lenders.
Broad Moat: Defensible and 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: Managed data that is material to operations/KPI’s and directly underpins cash flows.
Scalability & Exit: Data 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 backed up to private cloud / escrow to maintain data integrity and collateral value.
Scalability & Exit: Fully documented software process and developer documentation supporting 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, managing access and use by key customers and suppliers.
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.