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Intellectual property
Intangible assets
From year to year more and more attention is paid to intangible assets in our country. The intangible assets market is constantly growing. The knowledge of the intangible assets real price, especially concerning technological enterprises with a large number of intangible assets in their ownership, strengthens position of these companies on the market and draws attention to their business.
Intangible assets of the company are the assets as opposed to tangible assets are characterized by absence of a tangible form with a life period more than one year and the ability to generate income. It is generally agreed that the intangible assets are:
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all possible rights to use property, natural resources and subsurface resources;
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copyright property: scientific, literary and various artistic works, databases, computer programs;
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commercial secrets, that is unpatented documentation, results of the latest researches and discoveries (know-how) and even original techniques for transfer and introduction of new technologies;
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industrial property – various patents, applications for patents, trade marks and service marks.
Application of Intangible assets
Any enterprise, especially the innovation one, is interested in its development and understands that evaluation of intangible assets will give a lot of advantages, such as the possibility to increase the market value of the enterprise; reduce income tax; provide all assets accounting; know the exact cost of intangible assets at the time of purchase and sale; have information on amounts of damage and compensation in case of illegitimate use of the intangible assets owned by the enterprise.
The modern legislation of the Russian Federation, the international treaties and agreements in force allow to apply intellectual rights to the results of intellectual activity as a specific goods which bring profit.
In spite of the fact that the patent is a security document in the innovation process, any item of intellectual property and technical information can be considered as a specific profitable product.
Intangible assets as a market instrument
Certain commercial benefits of intangible assets owning can be revealed:
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retention of the new direction in science, engineering and technological processes;
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capitalization of the enterprise, reputation improvement;
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political reasons;
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moral factor;
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defensive factor;
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offensive reasons
Intangible assets are the modern commercial tools; it is necessary to know their arrangement and use them properly.
Group A8
Group A8 has several tens of intellectual property and technical information objects in the portfolio.
On reasonable grounds we do not disclose the detailed information on intangible assets structure to keep the commercial secret and confidentiality.
The official information on the portfolio of intellectual property objects is given on the official portal of the Russian intellectual property auction.