ktMINE Releases First Edition of New Intangibles Licensing Research Series, ktMINE Findings

The ktMINE Findings series uncovers and reports on licensing trends across specific industries, types of intangibles, and other notable areas.

Chicago, IL, October 15, 2010 --(PR.com)-- ktMINE, an intellectual property (IP) data and information services firm, today announced the release of the first edition in a new research series called ktMINE Findings. ktMINE provides intangibles licensing data, documents and analysis tools aggregated from publicly available records.

The ktMINE Findings series uncovers and reports on licensing trends across specific industries, types of intangibles, and other notable areas. ktMINE is able to identify series topics by digging deeply into different segments of the intangibles licensing information contained in their database and sifting through the results in search of hidden meanings worthy of further investigation.

The first edition of ktMINE Findings is focused on marketing intangibles being licensed in the Consumer Durables and Consumer Nondurables industries with agreement effective dates between 2005 and 2009. The full ktMINE Findings report includes details on key aspects of intangibles licensing in this segment including the average number of royalty rates per agreement, exclusivity of agreements, territorial coverage of agreements, spread of royalty rate bases and first quartile, median and third quartile spread for net sales royalty rates contained in the agreement set.

Future editions will focus on other industries, types of licensed intangibles and other areas with noteworthy findings.

“Our goal in creating the ktMINE Findings series was to begin unearthing and sharing the hidden stories in the intangibles licensing industry,” states David R. Jarczyk, COO of ktMINE. “Many industries, organizations and practitioners can benefit from this information, and we are pleased to be in a position where we can use ktMINE data to provide these important insights.”

About ktMINE
Based in Chicago, IL, ktMINE is an intellectual property (IP) data and information services firm. ktMINE ‘s Royalty Rates and Records Database was created by a team of transfer pricing and valuation experts to simplify the process of finding defensible market comparables. Through a proprietary method, ktMINE is able to provide both common and hard-to-find market comparables along with authoritative documentation. ktMINE’s customers include tax authorities, universities and industries such as business valuation, transfer pricing, M&A, expert witness, IP law and litigation, and technology transfer. www.ktMINE.com

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