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title: Patent Portfolios and Valuation Uncertainty
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4596801/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4596801
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4596801
featured: 2023-10-12
citations: 0
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Patent Portfolios and Valuation Uncertainty

The study analyzes the effect of patent portfolio traits on market-perceived valuation uncertainty, finding that a larger market value increases uncertainty, while more patents and lower value dispersion decrease it.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4596801
- Identifier: SSRN 4596801
- Released: 2023-10-06
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 20 (2023-10-12): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-10-12/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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