This document contains a syllabus for a course on software valuation and intellectual property. It discusses topics like why software should be valued, principles of valuation, open source software, market value of software companies, intellectual capital, the life cycle of software innovation, sales expectations, business models, patents and more. The document also contains slides on offshoring, transferring intellectual property rights to foreign companies, selling those rights, types of foreign entities, knowledge as the link between companies and workers, transferring tangibles versus intangibles, and a hypothetical sequence of cases to illustrate these concepts.
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2. Syllabus:
1. Why should software be valued?
2. Principles of valuation. Cost versus value.
3. Open source software. Scope. Theory and reality
4. Market value of software companies.
5. Intellectual capital and property (IP).
6. Life and lag of software innovation.
7. Sales expectations and discounting.
8. Alternate business models.
9. Allocation and lag.
10. Patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. Licensing
11. Separation of use rights, Offshoring.
12. Risks when outsourcing and offshoring development.
13. Effects of using taxhavens to house IP.
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3. Offshoring
Task transfer to Enterprises in Foreign countries
1. Work migration: jobs are moved to
lower-cost countries
2. Support software etc. is moved to enable
similar productivity in those countries
For a fair Transfer Price (TP)
Income is generated by people and
(intellectual) capital
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4. Selling IP Rights
The actual docs & SW stay
where the workers are
Set a transfer price for the box
a. IP tranche
b. Intellectual Services and maintenance
Represents a fraction of your company $
1. Package the box
Create a subcorporation to hold the rights to the IP+
2. Sell the subcorporation to European sales co.: SE $
1) Receive a single payment matching the value
Requires a well-off buyer
2) Receive payments over time NPV = Transfer Price SE
3) Make a royalty (fraction of SE’s sales) arrangement
a. fraction of sales at SE commensurate with the amount of IP
b. A period that is sufficiently long to recover the IPs NPvalue
c. A premium to compensate the seller for the risk of SE defaulting
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5. Rights are flexible
REco
price
rents
USco
USco
Covert Property to New owner
owner cash minus rents tenant
Even rights to tangibles are intangibles.
The rights can then be moved off-shore.
Income from these rights can avoid taxes.
Even easier to do with intellectual property
And invisible – not on corporate books
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6. Hypothesis
• Offshoring of jobs is effective because of concurrent
Intellectual Property (IP) transfer
• Much of that IP is corporate property
• Transfer of corporate IP is poorly understood
IP as property is not well defined, hard to measure
There are many components to IP, coming from
open source, R&D, marketing, reputation as
Patents, copyright, trade secret (covered by NDAs)
• Still, IP transfer is a valuable, significant export
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7. Types of Foreign
Entities
• Independent Foreign Contractors
IFC may serve multiple customers
Share trade secrets with competitors IFC
Owners need contracts to protect the IP
Hard to monitor and enforce
• Owned, Controlled Foreign Corporations
CFC provides much more control over IP
Ownership often in third-party countries CFC
Avoids taxation of sales to other countries
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8. Knowledge is the
Link
To be effective a worker has to know what has to be done
• call center employees technicians
• That knowledge consists of • engineers
●
● managers
The technology
Documentation, prior versions, quality control
The business methods
How technology in the product is marketed
The flow from buyers to improved products and methods
• Companies distinguish themselves by proprietary IP
1. Patents, sometimes Copyrights
2. Confidential Documents
Trade
3. Knowledge within its people - protected by NDAs secrets
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9. Transfer of tangibles
vs Intangibles
U.S.A.
Tahiti
Export by Happy Bytes is visible and quantified.
Low cost export incurs loss in the U.S. and more profit in Tahiti
Loss reduces taxes paid in the U.S. Low tax rate in Tahiti increases global profit of HB
Export by Happy Games is invisible and hard to value.
Low cost export incurs loss in the U.S. and more profit in Tahiti
Loss reduces taxes paid in the U.S. Low tax rate in Tahiti increases global profit of HG
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10. To illustrate: a
Sequence of Hx cases
• Moving from Sales to Transfer of property
Country-based vs. Global companies
• Moving from Tangible to Intangible
Visible & measurable, barely so, or not at all
• Intangible property with Intangible knowledge
Services versus Patents and Trade Secrets
• Outsourcing
Work and its enablers: human and intellectual capital
Definitions emerge as we proceed through 10 cases
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11. Case 1: Tangible
export only
U.S. Machine tools * producer U
* To simplify: tools are not innovative, could be be built anywhere
• U exports its products to foreign countries
Receives payments for those exports
o prices are known and public
Pays taxes on resulting profit
IP Note: U supplies documents for use of the machines.
Those documents may be copyrighted.
But copyright does not protect intellectual contents,
only protects outright copying. Rarely valued.
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12. Case 2: Tangible
transfer
Global Machine tools producer G
• Exports machines to G’s CFC factory F ,
to be used in production of other products at F
G receives transfer payments T from F for those exports
Must show that the transfer price T is reasonable
Should match prices of external sales by G, or by other Co’s
Unreasonably low transfer prices imply U.S. tax avoidance and hiding
profits at a foreign base.
Pays taxes on resulting profit
But it's hard to be profitable without distinguishing abilities: IP
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13. Case 3: Tangible +
market value transfer
Renowned r Global Machine tools producer R
Reputation r is due to investment in quality and advertising
• Exports machines to its CSC factory Q
Gets higher prices T+ for external sales because of r
R receives transfer payments for the internal exports
Transfer price includes r when based on its T+ export prices
Harder to assess when there are no exports, and other companies in
the business have different reputations
Reputation r is IP due to marketing & product quality
fast effect - long-term effect .
Pays taxes on resulting profit
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14. Case 4: Intangible
export ≈ Case 1
U.S. Software tools creator and producer
• Exports software to foreign countries
Receives payments for those exports
Pays taxes on resulting profit
• Problem: software is easily copied
Protection desired, achieved by combination of
Only issuing licenses -- avoids property rights issues
Copyright laws and patents -- requires govmnt cooperation
Making copying hard -- technology game
Restricting maintenance -- works for critical packages
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15. Case 5: Intangible
transfer ≈ Case 2
U.S. Software creator and producer
with foreign distribution
• Exports software products to foreign subsidiary,
to be marketed and sold there
• Receives transfer payments for those exports
Must show that the transfer price is reasonable
By comparison with other sales by self, or by other co’s
o More difficult to assign value than tangibles.
Pays taxes on resulting profit
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16. Case 6: Intangible
manufacturing
U.S. Software producer with foreign distribution
• Exports software master to its subsidiary,
to be copied*, marketed, and sold there
• Receives transfer payments for single export
Must show that the transfer price is reasonable
One instance allows thousands of sales,
generates substantial ongoing income over its lifetime
Valuation requires projection of income over life
o When is income realized? What is the life of the software?.
Pays taxes on resulting profit * equivalent to manufacturing;
writing software is considered R&D
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17. Case 7:Intangible
transfer, joint creation
Software producer with foreign specialists
• Exports software master to its subsidiary, and
adapted, copied, marketed, and maintained there
Source of foreign part of knowledge is remote
Assume cost of all R&D centrally accounted
• Receives transfer payments for those exports
Must show again that the transfer price is reasonable
Share R&D cost according to locale of revenue
Credit foreign R&D against foreign revenue
Pays taxes on U.S. assignable profit of foreign sales
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18. Shared
Case 8:
intangible creation
Global Software producer
• Develops globally, perhaps 24/7
Shares all knowledge globally at initiation
Assume cost of all R&D centrally accounted
• Transfer payments should move both ways
Must show that the transfer prices are reasonable
Use of prior IP accounted for, or Buy-out
Allocation? cost, hours?
Compute balance
Pays taxes on U.S. share of profit.
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19. Case 9:Extreme
offshoring
Company offshores everything
R&D, Production, distribution, service, feedback
• All IP has been exported
Value of export is value of entire company, except for
tangibles (HQ building, cash, option income)
All income is offshore
Only profits needed for dividends are repatriated
No U.S. taxable income on continuing operations
Initial export of IP should be (have been) taxed?
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20. Case 10: Inversion
The foreign subsidiary (CHORD6) uses its profits
to buy the U.S. Base (CHORD) company
1. CHORD6 creates a second-level subsidiary (CHORD64) in the U.S.
2. CHORD64 merges with CHORD, considered a reorganization
• CHORD stockholders trade their shares for CHORD64 shares
• CHORD is disolved, no longer exists as U.S. entity: grey part is gone
• CHORD64 is a subsidiary of CHORD6; and not subject to U.S. tax
• Stockholder value is unchanged, but their control is diminished
• US employees now work for CHORD6, but may not notice
4. CHORD6 owns the name CHORD, renames itself,
so it looks the same to employees and customers
5. For sales in the U.S., a royalty is now due to CHORD in Bermuda
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23. Taxhavens
Problem for tax avoidance:
1. Want to sell products not only in low-tax countries
2. Still don’t want to pay taxes on sales
Solution:
1. Separate the rights from the workers
• IP rights are not visible
• IP justifies the collection of non-routine incomes
2. Move the rights to a primary taxhaven
• Typically involves three or more entities
A. Parent company, IP creator, or sponsor, sets up B. and C.
B. IP holding company, buys IP initially and pays for its maintenance.
C. Off-shore enterprise or seller, IP consumer: licenses the IP from B
More to come
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