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We are the Premier-Quality Royalty Rates Database and we provide data on third party licence agreements.

Use our database and receive:

  • High-quality data that complies with the requirements of the OECD BEPS.
  • Agreements that are manually analyzed for more than 50 comparability factors.
  • Detailed functional, risk, cost and asset analyses.
  • Detailed summaries of the agreement terms and comparability factors.
  • Fully analyzed, clean and structured data for each agreement.

Subscription plans

Data Quality

With our subscription plans, you can access our premier-quality royalty rates database and receive high-quality data for a wide range of purposes – from transfer pricing and intangibles valuation to drafting legal agreements and patent box applications.
Our database is manually compiled and constantly reviewed by our team of expert data analysts for premium data quality.

Subscription plans

We offer multiple subscription options for our royalty rates database. The features and conditions of each are listed in the table below.

  • Access to high-quality data
  • Wide range of filter options
  • Extensive comparability factor list
  • Flexible subscription options
Request a subscription

Subscription plans

Weekly Yearly
7 days Contract length 12 months Contract length
1000€ Total On request Total
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One Search

  • One Search performed by us
  • Fast and efficient
  • Manually assembled list of potentially comparable agreements
  • Results preview at no cost
  • for full reports and agreements

Do you need to prepare your deliverable by tomorrow, or even today? With One Search, you can use the RoyaltyRange database on a one-off basis. We will perform the search for you and get the initial results to you within hours and at no cost. You can then decide whether you want to purchase the data. We perform hundreds of searches, making it efficient and easy for you to get the data you need.
Here’s how One Search works:

  • You place a request with us, indicating your search objectives (e.g. “I need royalty rates for coffee trademark agreements”).
  • Within hours, you receive a list of potentially comparable agreements at no cost.
  • You review the results, checking the agreements for relevancy (including information about the object, territory, royalty base and term).
  • If you decide to purchase the full reports and agreements, you pay (plus VAT) via any major credit card or bank transfer.
  • We send you the full royalty rates reports relating to your search objectives, including the original agreements (in PDF format) and information on up to 50 comparability factors for each agreement.
or

Benchmarking Study

What is the market royalty rate for licensing a clothing brand? Is a 5% royalty rate for licensing your technology too low in comparison with the rates applied by third parties? Our benchmarking study analyzes the available third party license agreements and estimates the market royalty rate range.
We provide you with:

  • A detailed write-up of our search process, including a description of the search strategy we applied, the quantitative and qualitative screening steps we took, the final list of comparable agreements, and a calculation of a market royalty rates range based on these comparable agreements.
  • An appendix of the reviewed royalty rates reports, including elimination reasons for the rejected agreements.
  • Original sources for the comparable agreements, in PDF format.
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  • Benchmarking Study to determine the market royalty rates for the specific product or service.
  • Search strategy explained
  •  for full study

Data comparability factors

Data comparability factors

  • Type of intellectual property
  • Industry description
  • Licensor
  • Licensor’s activities
  • Licensee
  • Licensee’s activities
  • Object description
  • Geographical scope
  • Agreement date
  • Effective date
  • Cessation date
  • Duration terms
  • Product limitation
  • Exclusivity
  • Usage restrictions
  • Legal protection
  • Useful life
  • Development stage
  • Enhancements
  • Future benefits
  • R&D functions
  • Marketing functions
  • R&D control
  • Protection of intangibles
  • Quality control
  • Unsuccessful R&D risks
  • Unsuccessful marketing risks
  • Product obsolescence risks
  • Infringement risks
  • Product liability risks
  • Functions costs
  • Risks costs
  • Other party costs
  • R&D costs
  • Marketing costs
  • Employee knowledge
  • Transfer type – rights
  • Transfer type – intangibles
  • Transfer type – with goods
  • Royalty rates
  • Base
  • Other payments
  • Compensation details
  • Document title
  • Links to original sources
  • Patent/trademark no.
  • Patent/trademark synopsis
  • Patent/trademark image

Database filter options

  • Keywords
  • Industrial classification – NACE
  • Industrial classification – SIC
  • Intellectual property type
  • Term of the licence
  • Search by the parties
  • Exclusivity
  • Industry
  • Geographical scope
  • Royalty base
  • Royalty rates
  • Full-text search
  • Boolean search

About us

RoyaltyRange supplies royalty rates, loan interest rates and service fees data to industry-leading multinational enterprises, global consulting companies, international law firms, government authorities and universities in more than 60 countries. We have locations in the US, UK and Belgium. RoyaltyRange is funded by the European Union’s Structural Funds, with a total share capital of USD 1,000,000.

The RoyaltyRange database has been featured in publications by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank Group (WBG), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and United Nations (UN).

Where can you use our data?

You can use our royalty data reports for tax, transfer pricing, valuation, legal, patent box and benchmarking purposes. We have already analyzed the agreements for you and you can finalize your intellectual property analysis in a matter of hours.

What our clients say about us:

I like the search results very much and have found perfect matches for my engagement. Kerwin Jin, Transaction Advisory, EY

Our cooperation is a valuable asset for us as the data received from your company helps us with our work and is value-adding. Lukas Drobnys, Tax, KPMG

Both our commercial and litigation IP lawyers were impressed with your service offering. Wayne Beynon, Commercial Disputes, Capital Law, UK

We highly appreciate your responsiveness and quality of results. Kerstin Heinecke, Financial Solutions, FAS AG, Germany

We consider RoyaltyRange one of our most valued collaborators, so we will surely continue to use their services in the future. Ivana Ilic, Tax, Deloitte

Your assistance and the data provided was very helpful for our project. Jack Violetta, BDO US

I found the system very reliable, well organized and easy to use. Andrea Tiburzi, Barzanò & Zanardo, Italy

The data was very helpful to me. Kate Morris, PYA, US