Patent ID: 8595113

Claim:
A method in a computing system having a processor and a memory for enabling users to find and acquire intellectual property assets, comprising: receiving an indication of a first set of potentially acquirable intellectual property assets; receiving an indication of pre-determined qualification criteria used to determine whether potentially acquirable intellectual property assets fall within one or more sets of assets that a first organization desires to obtain; determining, by the computing system, whether each of one or more of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set is qualified based on the pre-determined qualification criteria, wherein potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set that satisfy the pre-determined qualification criteria are qualified and wherein potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set that do not satisfy the pre-determined qualification criteria are not qualified; receiving an indication of a valuation attributed to one or more of the qualified potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set, wherein the valuation attributed to one or more of the qualified potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set is determined at least in part by a review of one or more of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set; providing, by the computing system, information regarding one or more of the qualified potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set to a user for use in negotiating the acquisition of one or more of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set; and identifying a second set of intellectual property assets other than the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set, wherein each identified intellectual property asset of the second set is identified based at least in part on a relationship between the identified intellectual property asset of the second set and one or more of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set, wherein the relationship serving as the basis for identifying at least one of the identified intellectual property assets of the second set is a common inventor or common assignee between the at least one of the identified intellectual property assets of the second set and one or more of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets of the first set.