Intangible Assets

June 19, 2008
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured, which are created through time and/or effort and that are identifiable as a separate asset.

There are two primary forms of intangibles – legal intangibles (such as trade secrets (e.g., customer lists), copyright, patents, trademarks, and goodwill) and competitive intangibles (such as knowledge activities (know-how, knowledge), collaboration activities, leverage activities, and structural activities).

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