Patent ID: 8515851

Claim:
A computer system method for formulating an intellectual property index, the method comprising the steps of: selecting through instructions stored in a computer system one or more index constituents from a group of index constituents to obtain one or more selected index constituents, wherein said selecting step further comprises the steps of: ranking each index constituent of the group of index constituents based on one or more measures of liquidity, size, and style to obtain ranked index constituents; choosing the ranked index constituents that are within a specified percentage; assigning through instructions stored in a computer system a weight value to each of the one or more selected index constituents using an intangible asset measure, wherein the intangible asset measure is a patent rating measure consisting of patent count, patent age, patent decay rate, patent velocity, patent flow, patent abandonment count, patent diversification, total patent forward cites, new patent forward cites, average intellectual property quotient, patent maintenance value, patent exchange value; generating through instructions stored in a computer system a patent based index; and displaying the patent based index on a display unit of the computer system.