Clients across industries and around the world turn to ktMINE for accurate and defensible IP licensing data and documentation. For information on ktMINE uses across specific industries, see the Industry Uses section.
Amsterdam
Jessica uses ktMINE to identify cost plus ranges for certain services provided by her clients, as ktMINE has identified cost plus agreements previously thought not to exist.
Brussels
Rita uses ktMINE to understand how licensing terms differ in various regions of the world. Using the territory filter, she is able to construct country-specific royalty rate ranges to apply to her foreign exchange practice.
Calgary
John uses ktMINE to determine the appropriate royalty rate paid by his oil and gas clients. Oil and gas companies regularly license patents, know-how and technology intangibles to their related exploration sites.
Chicago
Rhiannon uses ktMINE to identify sales agent agreements, which are tough to find without ktMINE. Sales agent arrangements are becoming increasingly popular as companies seek to increase their brand awareness and revenues by selling into new markets, without adding headcount.
Copenhagen
Philippe uses ktMINE to identify profit-split ranges for his joint venture. Philippe’s company enters new markets by strategically partnering with local, well-known companies. ktMINE has identified a significant number of agreements that allow for profit to be split at the gross profit, operating profit, and net profit levels.
Dallas
Enrique uses ktMINE to identify cost sharing agreements for his clients. Enrique’s firm regularly determines appropriate sharing of costs for joint ventures and other partnerships. ktMINE has identified a number of cost sharing agreements that benchmark the sharing of specific costs among parties to a transaction.
Frankfurt
Hanz uses ktMINE to help value the intangible property of his client’s acquisition targets. His clients expect to be fully informed of their target’s intangible property portfolios prior to closing a deal.
Geneva
Ulrich uses ktMINE for his corporate banking customers seeking commercial loans. As part of the credit analysis process, Ulrich reviews the intangible property value of borrowers to understand their ability to generate revenues.
Hong Kong
Lilly uses ktMINE to determine appropriate royalty rates for intercompany transactions involving Chinese companies. The Chinese tax authority has increased its scrutiny of royalties paid from Chinese companies to other countries for the license of intangible property.
Lisbon
Gustavo uses ktMINE to negotiate royalty rates for his small business clients. The licensing of patents has been increasing in this region and the EU is moving for greater protection rights to patent owners. His alliance partners use ktMINE to calculate damages for patent infringement cases.
London
Luis uses ktMINE to identify comparable agreements for a transfer pricing case involving the license of trademarks by a local multinational company. Trademark protection is important throughout the world as the value of company is directly tied to its brand awareness.
Los Angeles
Vanita uses ktMINE to value local franchises that are looking to be acquired by national chains. ktMINE has an extensive database of franchise payments and terms which can be viewed in full detail or as statistics that can reveal trends across an entire industry.
Madrid
David uses ktMINE as part of his M&A due diligence. The valuation of intangible property is receiving increased attention in this region of the world, and ktMINE’s data significantly helps practitioners understand IP value. David also uses ktMINE to read the full documentation for any potential comparable to ensure he has a complete understanding of all licensing terms that could affect his analysis.
Mexico City
Ivan uses ktMINE to benchmark several type of agreements at once and adds the key metrics ktMINE provides, such as royalty rate ranges, to transfer pricing reports. Transfer pricing regulations differ between the U.S. and Mexico, and having an online, easy to navigate source for U.S. market comparables which include actual documents is a tremendous asset.
Milan
Adolfo uses ktMINE in the valuation of target companies for his private equity firm. His firm believes that they gain an edge over other investors by fully understanding the intangible property portfolios of their target companies.
Moscow
Oleg uses ktMINE to identify comparable royalty rates for his valuation studies. There has been increased focus on intangible property valuation in Russia and the former Soviet bloc as economies continue to grow and intangible property continues to be developed and exploited. Oleg uses ktMINE’s data as input to his relief-from-royalty models.
New York
Nelly uses ktMINE to identify royalty rates for the pharmaceutical market. After the GlaxoSmithCline Case, pharmaceutical clients are focusing their efforts on proper remuneration for use of their IP.
Paris
Arnaud uses ktMINE to identify arm’s length ranges for his fashion clients. There has been a trend to license brands of famous Parisian designers to the rest of the world to generate greater worldwide revenues. Arnaud performs research in ktMINE to ensure that his clients have a pulse on both the general marketplace and their competitors.
Singapore
Soo Lee uses ktMINE to perform royalty rate searches for her valuation for her clients in Malaysia. The scrutiny of IP infringement has become a hot topic in the region, and the fact that ktMINE provides unlimited access to actual source documents helps Soo Lee perform thorough due diligence.
Sydney
Leslie uses ktMINE to benchmark licensing rates for her client’s Advance Pricing Agreement (“APA”) needs. When negotiating intercompany pricing related to intangible property, Leslie can be confident she identified all relevant agreements when using ktMINE.
Tokyo
Nobu uses ktMINE to identify royalty rates for similar IP. Nobu’s client is interested in exploiting patents in the electronics industry that they cannot use internally. Earning extra income from licensing unused patents is a popular business practice among technology companies.
Toronto
Dean uses ktMINE to benchmark the royalty rates his transfer pricing clients should pay to their US parent companies. The Canadian tax authority has increased scrutiny of outbound, intercompany intangible property transactions.
Warsaw
Andrzej uses ktMINE to determine a range of cost pluses paid for general administration services. Andrzej’s firm provides these services to other companies in the group and management wants to ensure it is properly compensated.
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