Quality of Intellectual Property Report

Strengthen Your Value Story to Buyers and the Street

The strength and uniqueness of a company’s technology and other intellectual property can distinguish a great target company from a less valued target. Yet in many transactions, companies fail to effectively position their intellectual property as a driver of enterprise value. Instead, intellectual property is seen as a risk, relegated to a confirmatory due diligence item, considered in the final stages of the deal — after value and terms have been negotiated. The result is inconsistency in process, surprises late in the process, and a loss of value.

Aon has changed the way companies position their intellectual property to help them articulate and realize its full value in an M&A or financing transaction. Our Quality of Intellectual Property report (QoIP) provides a structured and consistent process and a valuable tool to a deal team to precisely catalogue an intellectual property portfolio, describe its connection to the operating business, benchmark against competitors, and position it for maximum value to both strategic and financial buyers.

Tell your innovation story better.
QoIP delivers high-impact data quickly in deal time and in clear and simple language. It provides your deal team with a powerful tool to deliver a strong and comprehensive positioning thesis early in the deal process.

The report:

  • Catalogues intellectual property portfolio, including patents, trade secrets, data, software, and brand
  • Highlights core technologies protected by patents and trade secrets
  • Identifies competitive advantages enabled by the intellectual property
  • Defines intellectual property coverage of existing and future revenue streams
  • Benchmarks intellectual property coverage and quality against competitor portfolios
  • Articulates a compelling pitch to corporations looking for defensive acquisitions

The Right Resources and Experience

The Quality of Intellectual Property report is delivered with speed, quality, and precision. Aon’s intellectual property experts use proprietary analytical methods, AI-enabled tools, and extensive IP data to produce high fidelity patent analysis at scale and translates this technical analysis into actionable intelligence.

Expert Service Delivery

Layering an additional workstream to a transaction can be costly. That is why the Aon team combines intellectual property and M&A experience and prioritizes speed, efficiency, and confidentiality. We work seamlessly with our clients and their advisors to deliver critical data to deal team members at strategic points in their deal’s timeline.

Clearly Articulated Value

The Quality of Intellectual Property report delivers valuable data to help sellers clearly articulate the scope, marketplace interconnectivity, and integrity of their intellectual property. With this, buyers can understand how these assets complement their current intellectual property portfolio to either protect or build their market share.


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The Aon Advantage

Aon’s Intellectual Property Solutions team helps clients identify, protect, and maximize value from their most valuable assets in today’s business world, their intellectual property. Aon brings the best minds and strong analytical tools to provide a comprehensive approach to intellectual property strategy, valuation, and risk management across a client’s business — aligning current and future intellectual property assets with a business’s overarching strategy.