Financial instrument based on content and methods for valuation
View Patent ↗The present invention is a system and methods by which an investment vehicle can be established that is directed to one or a very limited specific form of content. More specifically, the system and methods of the present invention creates a financial instrument directed to specific content—such as a specific technology or specific artistic or literary work—that may be issued, thereby providing investors with the opportunity to invest in the specific content or aspect of that specific content.
1. A computerized method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument comprising the steps of:
selectively characterizing content-trading financial information executed by instructions stored in a computer readable storage medium comprising the steps of:
defining content by a processor to which the content-based financial instrument is directed to establish defined content;
selecting a target content by the processor from within the defined content, wherein the target content is a patent and said selecting step further includes the step of utilizing one or more target content determination approaches within a group consisting of:
a classification system determination approach, wherein the target content is identified based on one of a class schedule, a subclass schedule, or a technology center identifier of a patent office,
an analytical method determination approach, wherein the target content is identified based on emerging target content with the defined content,
a relevance score determination approach, wherein the target content is identified based on relevance to a group of patents known to belong to the target content,
a relevance threshold determination approach, wherein the target content is identified based on exceeding a threshold determined by the group of patents known to belong to the target content, and
a common identifier determination approach, wherein the target content is identified based on a common characteristic,
determining a value of the content-based financial instrument based on a valuation of the target content using one or more performance metrics selected from the group comprising of:
closed-source analytics, wherein the target content valuation is estimated based at least in part on a private analysis not publicly available,
open-source analytics, wherein the target content valuation is estimated based at least in part on one or more of the following: patent registration data in a patent office, all of the rights associated with a grant or a registration of the target content, a group of rights less than all of the rights arising from the grant or the registration of the target content, an exclusive license to practice one or more of the statutory or judicial-based rights of the target content, patent value, patent maintenance value, sales, and
market-based analytics, wherein the target content valuation is estimated based at least in part on one or more of the following: trading data resultant from market activity for the underlying asset of a financial instrument that operates as a futures contract, shares of or licenses to individual patents that are publicly traded, groups of patents in the target content,
publishing by the processor the content-trading financial information characterizing the content-based financial instrument on one or more display units of an electronic trading system, the content-trading financial information including the value of the content-based financial instrument; and
accepting by the processor a position to the content-based financial instrument established by an investor.
2. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 further comprising the step of evaluating the target content valuation of said determining step.
3. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 2 further comprising the step of producing data from said evaluating step.
4. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 , wherein said determining step further includes the step of utilizing a payout condition.
5. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 , wherein the target content valuation is correlated to a payout issued on a delivery day.
6. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 5 further comprising the step of issuing the payout on the delivery day.
7. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 3 , wherein said producing step further comprises the step of storing the data in a database.
8. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 3 , wherein said producing step further comprises the step of formulating trading strategies of a financial instrument.
9. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 , wherein the common characteristic of the common identifier determination approach is the same inventor of target content that is a plurality of patents.
10. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 , wherein the common characteristic of the common identifier determination approach is the same assignee of target content that is a plurality of patents.
11. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 , wherein the value of the content-based financial instrument is determined on a date the content-based financial instrument issues.
12. The method for creating and trading a content-based financial instrument of claim 1 , wherein the value of the content-based financial instrument is determined on a date an investor establishes a position in the content-based financial instrument.