RoyaltyStat.com: Royalty rates for license agreements or valuation of intangible assets

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What We Do

RoyaltyStat® is a subscription database of royalty rates and license agreements compiled from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Edgar Archive. In RoyaltyStat you can find comparable royalty rates for valuing (or licensing) intangible assets. Every license agreement in RoyaltyStat contains at least one numerical (disclosed, non-redacted) royalty rate, and the database is updated every business day. We report the highest among tiered royalty rates.

RoyaltyStat is useful for the following purposes:

Finding royalty rates for licensing intangible property;
Complying with tax laws requiring arm’s length intercompany transactions;
Finding reasonable or comparable royalty rates;
Determining buy-in payments for cost-sharing arrangements under transfer pricing regulations;
Purchase price allocation (Class IV assets acquisition under IRS section 1060 (see Form 8594 -
Asset Acquisition Statement));
Establishing damages in intellectual property disputes; and
Valuing intangible property for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, bankruptcy, or other transactions.

The RoyaltyStat® Advantage

Search RoyaltyStat by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code or by full-text queries. The time-saving Royalty Tableau™ contains the name of the licensor, licensee, property description, royalty rate, exclusivity, duration, and the territory covered by the selected license agreements. The search results, including the full text of each license agreement, can be viewed online or archived for future analysis. You can view statistics, including count, average, standard deviation, and quartiles of selected royalty rates. The chart below shows a live frequency distribution of royalty rates in RoyaltyStat, excluding outliers using Tukey‘s quartile filter: