Применение метода анализа иерархий для оценки значимости технических ноу-хау
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Application of the analytic hierarchy process for assessing
the significance of technical know-how
© N.A. Kashevarova
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, 105005, Russia
At the moment, due to increased patent wars in the markets of high technology products,
leading companies actively use an alternative way to protect intellectual property —
trade secrets (know-hows). Unlike the patent rights, which reveal the essence of the tech-
nical solutions for public and at the same time prohibit their unauthorized use, know-
hows are used privately and have value because of being unknown to third parties. The
advantage of this method is that the know-how can protect the intellectual property of
virtually any level of complexity: stand-alone inventions, utility models or software prod-
ucts and integrated technologies that contain a variety of different interrelated technical
solutions. This makes it necessary to develop reliable methods for evaluating the tech-
nical know-hows in the early stages of their creation, when the forecast of implementa-
tion costs and commercialization revenues is limited, which prevents the use of the exist-
ing methods based on the cash flow forecasts or market comparisons. This paper propos-
es a method to assess the significance of technical know-how, based on the analytic hier-
archy process by T. Saaty, which allows to assess the know-how in terms of its originali-
ty, technical complexity and competitiveness, as well as to compare some know-hows
with each other on these parameters.
Keywords:
trade secret, know-how, intangible assets, analytic hierarchy process, crite-
ria, weights.
Kashevarova N.A.,
Assistant Lecturer of the Department of Entrepreneurship and
Foreign Economic Activities of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, em-
ployed at Corporation «Cometa» as expert in intellectual property rights protection and
valuation. Author of 6 publications in the field of intellectual property management in
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