Walk the DEMPE trail
Apply DEMPE logic to test whether an IP owner earns returns consistent with its contributions and control.
The pressure Cayman IP Co receives $18M in royalties, but product and engineering decisions sit elsewhere. The royalty survives only if the file connects returns to DEMPE contributions and control. Framework DEMPE return follows contribution plus control Do not stop at legal ownership. Trace the activities that create, protect, and exploit the intangible, then test who controls the risks and has capacity to bear them. Legal title only Fast, but fragile. Returns allocated to the parties that create value and control risk. Legal ownership can receive returns, but not returns disconnected from DEMPE substance. 01 Identify 02 Control 03 Return…
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