This however results in your obtaining a series of national patents. Proposals for a Community Design are progressing at EU level. Valuation of intellectual property is obtained on a number of different bases, including net present value, the going rate and past court decisions. Whatever the buyer will pay is, of course, the true value. For a detailed description of these methods there is a chapter on this topic in Mark Anderson's recently published book Technology - The Law of Exploitation and Transfer, Butterworths, 1996.
Singletons are specialist intellectual property solicitors.
If you have a legal question which you would like answered then please write to the Editor, Inventors World, clearly marking your envelope 'Inventors' Legal Problems'. We regret that, due to the complex nature of Intellectual Property Law, we cannot enter into personal correspondence, nor name correspondents.