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In an increasingly IP-driven economy, more of your IP clients are making business assumptions based on “back of the envelope” assessments of patent value. “On the surface, this sounds like a reasonable request,” writes Fernando Torres, chief economist at IPmetrics. “A specialist should be able to review and consider the issued patent document and determine an approximate market value.” However, the lawyer and their financial analyst may need to remind the client that a patent’s economic value does not arise from the attributes of the innovation itself: “Its value is derived from its current role in the economy. The invention itself may have scientific, engineering, or even artistic merits,” Torres writes, “but these are not sufficient attributes to determine economic value.”