Max Validity Score

Root IP Asset

A root IP Asset is defined as having no parents. Think of such IP Asset as a completely new creation with no ties to any existing IPs. The legitimacy of the root IP Asset is therefore completely independent of any other IP Asset. Therefore, its maximum validity score is the absolute maximum possible validity score for an IP Asset. For simplicity, we will set this score to 100.

$$M\text{(Root IP Asset)} = 100$$

Child IP Asset

A child IP asset is defined as having at least one parent. Think of such IP Asset as an innovation on one existing IP Asset or a remix on multiple existing IP Assets. The legitimacy of the child IP Asset is therefore dependent on all of its parent IP Assets, because an illegitimate parent asset will invalidate the child asset. Assuming a child IP Asset has $n$ parents, then the maximum validity score for this child IP Asset is expressed as follows

$$M\text{(Child IP Asset)}= \text{Min}\{V(p_0), V(p_1), \dots, V(p_n)\}$$

Where:

• $p_0, p_1, \dots, p_n$ are the parent IP Assets for the child IP Asset.

• $V(p_0), V(p_1),\dots, V(p_n)$ represent the validity scores for each of the parent IP Asset.

Key Points:

• If a child has just one parent, the child's maximum validity score $M$ is simply capped by the parent's current validity score.

• If a child has many parents, the child's maximum validity score $M$ is thereby capped by the lowest validity score of all the parents.

Base Case

For the sake of simplicity, we will explain the concepts assuming the case of a root IP Asset. Therefore, we will set the maximum validity score

$$M =100$$

in all discussions below.