IP Rights Transfer and Sales
Intellectual property transactions involve complex legal, technical, and financial elements that must be precisely coordinated. Current manual processes for IP rights transfers require extensive documentation, multiple verification steps, and careful tracking of ownership chains—leading to transaction cycles that typically extend 3-6 months and carry significant administrative overhead.
The fundamental challenge lies in maintaining legal validity and enforceability while streamlining the mechanics of IP rights transfers and monetization.
This page brings together solutions from recent research—including blockchain-based transfer mechanisms, smart contract automation systems, tokenized IP ownership platforms, and distributed royalty management approaches. These and other approaches focus on reducing transaction friction while preserving the legal integrity of IP transfers.
1. Method for Transaction and Settlement of Standardized Digital Assets Based on Intellectual Property Rights
Hainan International Intellectual Property Exchange Co., Ltd., 2024
Standardized digital assets based on intellectual property rights for efficient and transparent intellectual property trading. The method involves initiating a transaction request for intellectual property standardized digital assets, receiving an order, initiating a settlement request with a strategy to convert the assets, and completing settlement based on the order and strategy. This allows customized settlement and conversion of IP assets into physical or service assets.
2. NFT Trading Platform with Intellectual Property Verification and Fractional Ownership Distribution System
PARK GIL EEM, YANG JUN IK, 2023
An IP NFT art asset trading platform and compensation system that provides a transparent, regulated marketplace for buying and selling NFTs representing intellectual property and art. The system involves verifying the suitability of intellectual property rights before issuing NFTs, and dividing ownership between the original creator and investors. When NFTs are traded, profits are distributed based on the number of NFTs held. This allows fractional ownership and investment in IP and art, while preventing unauthorized use. The system also discloses transaction details to promote transparency.
3. System for Knowledge Categorization Utilizing Crowd-Sourced Common Mental Model Database
Dennis Alan Van Dusen, 2023
A system for organizing and categorizing knowledge to improve information retrieval and enable innovation. The system uses a crowd-sourced categorization database called the Common Mental Model (CMMDB) that contains categorized concepts. Users can search, visualize, refine, and contribute to the database. The system also provides monetization options like selling licenses to access the categorized knowledge.
4. System for Fractional Ownership and Trading of Intellectual Property Rights Using NFT-Based Shares
JEE SEON, KIM KYONG MIN, KWON HYUCK SUN, 2023
Intellectual property transaction system that allows fractional ownership and trading of intellectual property rights using NFTs. The system encrypts and divides intellectual property rights into multiple shares that can be bought, sold, and traded like stocks. This allows investors to own fractions of patents, trademarks, etc. for a lower cost. It also enables contributors to monetize their ideas directly by selling shares instead of waiting for royalties. The system uses NFTs to track and manage the shares, and blockchain to secure and transfer ownership.
5. Decentralized Network for Blockchain-Based Smart Patent Transactions and Tokenization
ERICH LAWSON SPANGENBERG, DANIEL LAWRENCE BORK, PASCAL ASSELOT, 2023
A blockchain-enabled decentralized network for the creation, maintenance, and execution of smart patent transactions that aims to improve the efficiency, transparency, and accessibility of patent transactions and services. The network allows for tokenization of patent ownership, blockchain-based patent registries, patent transactions using cryptocurrency, and smart contracts to automate the execution of patent deals.
6. Decentralized Blockchain Platform for Intellectual Property Asset Management with Smart Contract Automation
ERICH LAWSON SPANGENBERG, DANIEL LAWRENCE BORK, PASCAL ASSELOT, 2023
A decentralized blockchain-based platform to register, transfer, license, apply for, and value IP assets, such as patents, using smart contracts. The blockchain provides transparency and security while the smart contracts automate processes like patent transfers.
7. Intellectual Property Transaction System with Secure NFT Management and Compliance Modules
BEIJING LEXIANG YANCHUANG TECH CO LTD, BEIJING LEXIANG YANCHUANG TECHNOLOGY CO LTD, 2022
Intellectual property transaction system with information security protection for NFTs. The system provides a compliant, regulated, and secure way to buy, sell, and license intellectual property as NFTs. It uses smart contracts, encryption, audits, reviews, traceability, and evidence preservation to address issues like unregulated speculation, intellectual property infringement, and lack of supervision in NFT markets. The system involves modules like login, identity verification, intellectual property review, transaction, traceability, infringement monitoring, and rights protection.
8. Digital Warrant System for Trading Receivable Rights of Intangible Assets
YANG, Hong sun, 2022
Online system for sharing receivable rights like royalties from intangible assets without transferring ownership. The system allows owners of intangible assets like patents to issue digital warrants representing future receivable royalty rights. These warrants can be bought and sold. The warrant holders can then receive a portion of the future royalty payments.
9. Patent Sale Facilitation Platform with Step-by-Step Listing and Integrated Deal Room Tools
Erich Lawson Spangenberg, 2022
A platform for facilitating the sale of patents using a step-by-step process. The platform allows patent owners to list their patents for sale and provides a deal room with tools for due diligence, communication, and transaction management.
10. System for Grading and Matching Intangible Assets in Brokerage Transactions
Kang Jong-mo, 2021
Brokerage system for trading intangible assets like construction rights, intellectual property, and business items. The system receives intangible assets from users, grades them based on value, matches them with buyers, and facilitates transactions. It involves converting asset values into grades, extracting matching buyers, and proposing sales to them. This activates intangible asset trading by connecting buyers and sellers.
11. Blockchain-Based System for Time Stamping and Transferring Intellectual Property with Customizable Digital Contracts and Node Architecture
TECTONIC TECH INNOVATION COMPANY LTD, TECTONIC TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION COMPANY LTD, 2021
A system for time stamping and transferring intellectual property rights using customizable digital contracts and blockchain. The system involves a platform with nodes like managers, public nodes, super nodes, sub nodes, independent professor nodes, and service nodes. Intellectual property is time stamped when uploaded to the platform. Customized digital agreements with smart contract functions are written on the platform to negotiate, sign, and transfer IP. This provides a customizable, automated, and time stamped IP transfer system.
12. System for Intellectual Property Rights Transfer via Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and Timestamping
TECTONIC TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED, 2021
A system for digitizing and automating the transfer of intellectual property rights using smart contracts, blockchain, and timestamping. The system allows parties to upload IP info, and negotiate and sign customized digital agreements with smart contract terms on a platform. This automates execution, blocks further sales, and completes transactions upon payment. It uses distributed nodes for verification and timestamping to provide a secure, traceable method for IP transfers.
13. Decentralized Network-Based Patent Transaction Platform with Integrated Machine Learning
ERICH LAWSON SPANGENBERG, DANIEL LAWRENCE BORK, 2021
A patent transactional platform that leverages decentralized networks, machine learning, and other novel features to improve and optimize patent transactions compared to current platforms.
14. Digital Warrant System for Distributing Future Royalty Rights of Intangible Assets
YANG HONG SUN, 2021
An online system for dividing and selling the future royalty rights of intangible assets like patents, instead of selling the assets themselves. It involves issuing digital warrants representing the right to receive future royalty payments. The system allows owners of intangible assets to split and sell just the royalty rights, rather than transferring the assets. This allows multiple buyers to share in the royalty stream instead of selling the assets outright. It also enables clear tracking of taxes on the royalty rights.
15. Machine-Learning Platform for Patent Rights Analysis and Marketplace Matching
IPwe, Inc., 2021
Machine-learning enabled platform for analyzing, managing, and distributing patent rights through an online marketplace that connects potential patent buyers with patent owners. The platform uses a machine learning model trained on a large number of patents to identify potential matches between patent owners looking to sell and partners looking to acquire patents.
16. Intellectual Property Sales Management System with Modular User Registration, Query, Evaluation, Comparison, Income Management, and Sales Registration Functions
JIANGXI ZHONGXINGDA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OPERATION CO LTD, 2021
Intellectual property sales management system to improve the efficiency and accessibility of buying and selling intellectual property rights. The system has modules for user registration, intellectual property information query, value evaluation, comparison, income management, and sales registration. It also provides consulting services with manual and automated responses. The user side has registration and login options with password, SMS, and facial verification.
17. Blockchain-Based Intellectual Property Transaction System with Smart Contract Execution and Asymmetric Encryption
HAINAN UNIVERSITY, UNIV HAINAN, 2020
Intellectual property transaction method using blockchain to simplify and secure IP licensing. It involves a transaction server node that evaluates and prices IP provided by service providers. Service requesters provide their requirements with value and quality thresholds. The server matches IP offers to requests and pushes the best match. Requesters confirm and execute smart contracts to complete the IP transaction. The transaction is written to the blockchain using asymmetric encryption for security.
18. Decentralized Blockchain Network for Intellectual Property Rights Management with Smart Contracts and Secure Storage
ERICH LAWSON SPANGENBERG, DANIEL LAWRENCE BORK, PASCAL ASSELOT, 2020
A decentralized network using blockchain to provide a transparent and efficient platform for managing intellectual property rights. It leverages blockchain's features like smart contracts, secure decentralized storage, and transparent transactions to improve the patent ecosystem with features like simplified patent registration, transparent ownership, valuation tools, automated examination, and streamlined licensing and transfer processes.
19. Blockchain-Based Decentralized Platform for Intellectual Property Asset Tokenization and Financing
ERICH LAWSON SPANGENBERG, DANIEL LAWRENCE BORK, PASCAL ASSELOT, 2020
Decentralized platform using blockchain to connect intellectual property owners with investors. The platform evaluates and provides financing secured by intellectual property assets. It uses blockchain to enable efficient financing of patents and other intellectual property. The blockchain provides a decentralized, secure, and transparent way to evaluate, value, and finance intellectual property assets. It allows IP owners to tokenize and trade their IP as collateral for financing, providing a new asset class for investors.
20. Distributed Ledger-Based System for Digitization and Decentralized Transaction of Intellectual Property Assets
ZHONG SHAN, 2020
Intellectual property value management and operation method, device, medium and computing equipment that digitizes intellectual property assets, empowers users' IP rights through a distributed ledger, and enables decentralized IP transactions. It involves analyzing users' data to determine IP rights, setting basic rewards, and recording in a ledger. Users can trade IP rights via invitations based on requirements analysis. It uses consensus-based decision-making for transactions. The method aims to protect IP value and enable multilateral IP matching through a community enabled by blockchain.
21. Centralized IP Asset Securities Management System with Smart Contracts and Blockchain Integration
XU ZHENWEI, 2020
A system for managing securities related to intellectual property assets that provides a secure, efficient, and compliant way to trade and finance intellectual property rights. The system involves a central custody server for depositing, publishing, storing, recording, transmitting, and trading IP asset securities. It uses smart contracts, blockchain, and secure interaction techniques to enable IP rights transactions with features like isolated user identity, confidentiality, and consensus. The system aims to address issues like distrust, complexity, and leakage in existing IP asset trading.
22. Online Intellectual Property Rights Trading Platform with Integrated Modules for Search, Evaluation, and Transaction Management
FUJIAN XIAOWEI JINSHI TECH INCUBATION CO LTD, FUJIAN XIAOWEI JINSHI TECHNOLOGY INCUBATION CO LTD, 2020
An online platform for buying and selling intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The platform allows users to search, evaluate, and trade IP rights through a service terminal. It uses modules for login, IP value assessment, price setting, payment, and monitoring by third-party funds. The platform aims to provide a professional IP trading platform to facilitate IP commercialization and monetization.
23. System and Method for Automated Compliance Review and Transaction Method Selection in Intellectual Property Transactions
Zhejiang Intellectual Property Exchange Center Co., Ltd., ZHEJIANG INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXCHANGE CENTER CO LTD, 2020
Intellectual property transaction system and method that automates compliance review, optimal transaction method selection, and policy risk prevention for intellectual property transactions. The system involves acquiring, analyzing, and identifying intellectual property transaction items, verifying and supplementing the item information using stored intellectual property data, extracting audit rules based on transaction location, and independently reviewing compliance. It also recommends best transaction methods and prices based on the item data. This automation improves efficiency, accuracy, and compliance of IP transactions compared to manual review.
24. Intellectual Property Transaction Intermediation System with Notice Management and Intent Registration Interface
Kim Myung-jin, 2019
Intellectual property transaction intermediation system that enables activation of intellectual property trading by registering intentions and facilitating communication between parties. The system involves a notice management unit for tracking legally disclosed IP announcements, an interface for IP right holders to register their intent to provide transactions, and a brokerage section for matching requesters with holders. This enables efficient IP trading by providing a centralized platform for connecting parties with complementary needs.
25. Online Intellectual Property Trading Platform with Automated Classification, Direct Negotiation, and Government Incentive Integration
Xi'an Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Engineering Co., Ltd., 2019
Intellectual property (IP) trading platform that enables buying, selling, and licensing of IP rights like patents, trademarks, and copyrights through an online marketplace. The platform has features like automated IP classification, direct negotiation between buyers and sellers, and integration with government incentive programs to stimulate IP trading.
26. Blockchain Ledger System for Intellectual Property Management with Merkle Trees and Smart Contracts
FutureLab Consulting Inc., 2018
A blockchain-based system for managing intellectual property that provides functions like recordation, collaboration, searchability, licensing, tracking, and optimization of IP assets. The system uses a blockchain ledger to store IP data, contracts, and transactions. It leverages features like Merkle trees, partial transparency search, and smart contracts to enable secure, auditable, and decentralized IP management.
27. Asset Trading Platform with Transparent Transaction Visibility and Integrated Evaluation Mechanism
FLIPWEB TAIWAN, 2018
A transparent and open asset trading platform to facilitate the buying, selling, and transfer of digital assets, virtual assets, and real products/intellectual property in a trustworthy and efficient manner. The platform aims to provide a secure and transparent marketplace for trading assets, mitigating issues like fraud, privacy, and lack of transparency in traditional asset trading methods. It allows users to list and trade assets openly with transacted details visible to all, reducing risk compared to private transactions or forums. The platform also provides evaluation and credit assessment of buyers/sellers to enhance fairness.
28. Internet-Based System with Interactive Website for Displaying and Managing Patent Application Listings
PCTXS INC., 2018
An internet-based system for promoting and offering for sale or license PCT and national patent application rights. The system uses an interactive website with a searchable database of patent applications. Users can search for and view posted patent applications for sale or license. Patent applicants can post their own applications for sale or license. The website provides links to the actual patent applications and search reports to help buyers assess the value.
29. System for Profile-Based Matching and Contract Recording in Intellectual Property Transactions Using Machine Learning and Blockchain
Camelot UK Bidco Limited, 2017
Facilitating secure intellectual property transactions between parties like inventors, investors, developers, and institutions using a system that matches them based on their profiles and machine learning models. The system analyzes intellectual property information from parties to create profiles. It matches parties based on their profiles using learning models. The system also records contracts between matched parties on a verifiable ledger using blockchain. This allows auditing and enforcing the contracts.
30. Internet-Based Fourth-Party Platform with Cloud-Based IP Transaction Management and Authentication Units
BEIJING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFORMATION CENTER, BEIJING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE, UNIS SOFTWARE SYSTEM CO LTD, 2016
A fourth-party intellectual property (IP) trading platform using the internet to enable transparent, fair, and reliable IP transactions. The platform provides a regulated environment for IP transfer agents and transferees to buy and sell IP rights. It has cloud-based IP transaction management, services, authentication, and auction units. The fourth party (IP administration) authenticates funds transfers. This allows third-party agencies to act as IP brokers, providing a transparent and regulated marketplace for IP trading.
The presented patents demonstrate how intellectual property is transferred and sold in evolving ways. Some use blockchain technology to facilitate automated, transparent, and safe intellectual property transfers. Others seek to eliminate middlemen from IP transactions to increase accessibility and efficiency.
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