ViXS Systems' Portfolio Valued Between $43 Million and $109 Million

The portfolio of ViXS Systems Inc.’s (TSE:VXS) 510 patents and applications has been valued at somewhere between $43 million and $109 million by Black Stone IP, LLC (SPIP).
According to the press release:

BSIP is a boutique investment bank focused on valuing and trading intellectual property and technology assets, headquartered in San Francisco. BSIP’s team includes 25 PhDs, engineers, IP lawyers and investment bankers. Together they have has executed over 100 IP-driven transactions.
The portfolio was valued using an industry-standard discounted cash flow methodology, where BSIP projected cash flows from potential licensing of intellectual property across ViXS’s key technology areas. The valuation assessed a breadth of potential uses of patented technologies, the number and relative quality of patents in relevant technology groups, size of addressable markets, comparable royalty rates, and level of adoption of the technology, among other factors. The valuation range results from different assumptions around degrees of success of such a licensing program. In addition, the results were tested against per-patent values from precedent relevant patent sale transactions completed by BSIP and third party publicly available data.

 
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