A right that nobody knows exists
A patent sits on a register. The person who would license it has no reason to ever read that register.
IP BANK India · Commercialize
A brokered service — we go and find the buyer
Commercialize the patents and designs you already own
A granted patent earning nothing still costs renewal fees every year. IP BANK India exists to turn dormant rights into transactions — valued properly, matched to a real buyer, and documented so the transfer actually holds.
22,000+IPR filings
11,000+Clients served
106Designs released for public use
12+Years in practice
From a certificate to a chequeBrokered, not listed
AUDIT
What you own, and what it does
VALUE
What it could be worth, and to whom
MATCH
We go and find the buyer
TRANSFER
Negotiated, documented, recorded
The problem
Why most IP earns nothing
Not because it has no value. Because nobody ever went looking for the person who would pay for it.
Nobody has valued it
You cannot negotiate a price for something nobody has put a defensible figure against.
Renewals keep falling due
An idle grant is a recurring cost with no offsetting revenue. The longer it sits, the worse the arithmetic.
The paperwork will not survive diligence
Assignments missing, inventors unrecorded, renewals lapsed. Buyers walk away from this, quietly.
The work
IP commercialization, end to end
IP valuation
A defensible figure for licensing, fundraising, accounting or a sale — not a number pulled from the air.
Patent licensing
Somebody else builds it and you take a royalty. The right you keep; the revenue is new.
Technology transfer
Moving a technology out of a lab or an institution and into a company that can manufacture it.
Industry–innovator connections
The part that actually decides whether anything happens: finding the specific company that needs this.
Research commercialization
Institutional research assessed, protected and taken to the market it was always meant for.
Verification and documentation
Ownership verified, agreements drafted, assignments recorded so the transfer holds afterwards.
Six steps
How it works
Step three is the one that distinguishes a broker from a listing site. We go and find the buyer rather than waiting for one to arrive.
01
Portfolio review
What you own, its legal status, its renewal position and whether the ownership record would survive a buyer’s diligence.
02
Valuation
What the right could be worth, on what basis, and to which kind of buyer. The basis matters as much as the number.
03
Buyer and licensee discovery
Active outreach to companies in the relevant sector. This is work, not a listing — and it is where most commercialisation attempts quietly stop.
04
Due diligence and verification
Ownership, status, encumbrances and scope confirmed on both sides before anyone negotiates.
05
Negotiation and agreement
Terms, territory, exclusivity, duration and royalties, documented properly rather than agreed in an email.
06
Transfer, recordal and royalties
Assignment or licence executed, recorded against the register, and any ongoing royalty position managed.
Scope
What you can commercialize
All four rights are transactable. In practice patents and designs move most often, and copyright produces the largest single deals.
Granted and pending
Licensed, assigned or used as security. A pending application can be transacted too, at a different risk price.
Registered designs
Frequently licensed to a second manufacturer in another territory — a straightforward, under-used route.
Software and content
Where the largest single transfer we have handled came from: a Rs. 42 lakh copyright transfer of an Android application.
Brands
Assigned, licensed or franchised. Often the most valuable asset a consumer business owns.
Fit
Who benefits most
Institutions and faculty
Research that was protected and then sat still. Technology transfer is what it was protected for.
For institutionsMSMEs and startups
A portfolio built for defence that could also be earning — or a right worth more to somebody else than to you.
For businessIndividual inventors
If you would rather somebody else built it, licensing is how that happens.
For individualsAnyone holding idle IP
Start with a portfolio audit — you cannot commercialise what nobody has catalogued.
IP managementThe record
Commercialization we have completed
Three real outcomes rather than a promise about the fourth.
A Rs. 42 lakh copyright transfer
An Android application, valued, negotiated and transferred.
Read the caseA healthcare patent, transferred
Protection through to a commercial outcome rather than a certificate in a drawer.
Read the caseTechnology transfers to NGOs
Institutional research put to use outside the institution.
Read the case
Scoped per portfolio — no standard price list
What a commercialization engagement costs
Scoped rather than packaged, because a valuation on one granted patent and a two-year licensing programme across a portfolio are not comparable pieces of work. Tell us what you hold and what you want out of it, and you will get a written scope and fee basis.
Fees are agreed in writing before work begins. Where a success-based element is appropriate it is set out explicitly alongside the fixed component — never assumed.
How much you hold
One right, or a portfolio that first has to be audited before anything can be sold.
Whether valuation is needed
A defensible figure, on a stated basis, is a separate piece of work from finding a buyer.
How clean the ownership is
Missing assignments and lapsed renewals get fixed before a buyer sees them, not after.
How wide the search runs
One sector in India, or cross-border outreach across several jurisdictions.
How the deal is structured
Outright assignment, exclusive licence or royalty-bearing terms — each takes different documentation.
Straight answers
Questions we are asked most
Is IP BANK India a marketplace I can browse?
Not yet. The platform at ipbankindia.com is in beta and does not currently carry a browsable public inventory of listings. What actually moves IP today is the brokered service described on this page: we audit, value, and then go out and approach specific companies in the relevant sector. That is a deliberate distinction — a listing that nobody visits sells nothing, and we would rather tell you how it really works.
How is IP valued?
Against a stated basis, which is the part that matters. Depending on the right and the purpose, that can be the cost of creating and protecting it, the income it could reasonably generate under licence, or comparable transactions in the same field. Any valuation that does not say which basis it used, and what it assumed, is not a valuation you could defend to a buyer, an auditor or an investor.
Can I license my patent without selling it?
Yes, and for most holders that is the better route. A licence lets somebody else make, use or sell the invention on agreed terms while you keep ownership and continue to hold the right. Licences can be exclusive or non-exclusive, limited by territory, field of use or duration, and can carry royalties or a lump sum. Selling ends your position; licensing monetises it while keeping it.
How long does it take to license or sell IP?
Longer than people expect, and the variable is buyer discovery rather than paperwork. Audit and valuation move in weeks. Finding the specific company for whom this right solves a real problem, and getting them to a decision, is a sales cycle — often several months, sometimes longer. Anyone promising a fast outcome on a dormant patent is guessing.
Can you work with IP filed through another firm?
Yes. A large share of the portfolios we commercialise were filed elsewhere, sometimes years ago and sometimes by firms no longer involved. The first step is the same either way: a portfolio audit establishing what exists, what its status is, whether renewals are current and whether the ownership record would survive a buyer’s scrutiny. IP management covers that.
Is an idle patent worth keeping?
Sometimes, and sometimes not — and this is a question worth asking deliberately rather than by default. A right that blocks a competitor has defensive value even if it earns nothing. A right that blocks nobody, protects no product you sell and attracts no licensee is a recurring renewal cost with no return. An audit tells you which of those you are holding, and abandoning a right on purpose is a legitimate decision.
Who owns the IP during the process?
You do, throughout, until an assignment is executed and you have been paid. We act as your representative in valuation, outreach and negotiation. We take no ownership stake in your IP, and any success-based fee element is agreed in writing in advance rather than assumed.
Talk to an IP strategist
Find out what your IP is actually worth.
Start with what you hold. If the honest answer is that it is not commercialisable in its current state, you will hear that first — along with what would change it.