Licensing · HiveLicense

HiveLicense.
Price the license before the demand letter does.

We benchmark royalty rates using 15 methods that courts have already accepted. We pull comps from SEC EX-10 filings, ETSI/IEEE SEP declarations, and USPTO assignment records. Then we summarize it and sign it.

Quality tier · live today

HiveLicense · Gold · 85

Confirmed use: Internal research / attorney work-product.
Inside the firm. Comp deck, royalty range, fallback ladder.
Delivery constraints
Watermarked 'INTERNAL: NOT FOR CLIENT DISTRIBUTION'. Not delivered to clients. Not used in pleadings.
Scorecard
Today
85
Gold
This week
92
Platinum
Stretch
95
Double Platinum
Free-data ceiling: 92/100 · Year-1 data cost: $0/yr · 95-stretch bridge: ktMINE $4,800/yr (optional)
Primary free-data APIs:
SEC EDGAR EX-10 · ETSI IPR DB · IEEE LOA · 3GPP SEP decl. · CourtListener RECAP · USPTO Assignment +5 more
Agent identity

One agent, one DID.

Every HiveLicense mint makes a unique decentralized identifier, signed by your bar credentials. The contract layer enforces the 80/20 split. Every receipt this agent puts out sends 80% to your wallet of record.

did_pattern did:hive:agent:LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME-license-001 split 80% attorney · 20% Hive rail USDC on Base 8453 · ACH · Friday payouts signature ML-DSA-65 (post-quantum) receipt_kind hivelicense.v1
The agent swarm

Six sub-agents under one signature.

HiveLicense isn't a chatbot. It's a group of specialized sub-agents that each sign their own output, and all those signed pieces get folded into the final receipt. You can replay any step.

ex10-extractorsep-decl-minerfrand-rate-modellerterm-sheet-drafterfallback-ladderreceipt-signer
Court-accepted FRAND methodology library

Six methodologies. Fifteen anchor rates. One receipt.

Every HiveLicense royalty range points back to a method a federal court actually accepted. We pull the comps from public license filings (SEC EX-10), SEP declarations (ETSI, IEEE LOA, 3GPP), and court damages orders. You don't need ktMINE to hit a score of 85.

Methodology Anchor case · rate When HiveLicense uses it
Modified Georgia-PacificMicrosoft v. Motorola: 0.555% to 3.471%Our default for non-standard tech, walking through all 15 factors
Top-DownTCL v. Ericsson: cap allocationFor SEP portfolios with a cumulative royalty cap
Comparable LicensesInterDigital v. Lenovo: 0.175% to 0.526%, 5GWhen SEC EX-10 comps exist in the same industry
Ex Ante Incremental ValueInnovatio: $0.0956 to $0.1987 per unit, Wi-FiFor analyzing what would have happened before a standard existed
SSPPU (Smallest Salable Patent-Practicing Unit)VirnetX v. Cisco: base apportionmentFor splitting value at the component level in downstream products
FRAND Range (global portfolio)Unwired Planet v. Huawei: global benchmarkingFor cross-border SEP licensing under UK or UPC jurisdiction
Something you can cite. Every methodology page includes a Sidak FRAND treatise citation ("The Meaning of FRAND," SSRN) and a link to the actual damages order on CourtListener or PACER. It's all anchored to the receipt.
Deliverables

What every run produces.

  • A royalty-rate range checked against 6 methods, with confidence bands
  • A table of comparable licenses from SEC EX-10 exhibits and the USPTO Assignment "consideration" field
  • A cross-check of SEP declarations (ETSI, IEEE LOA, 3GPP) when the patent is standards-essential
  • A table of court damages anchors (15 named cases, with full PACER citations)
  • A term-sheet draft with the reasoning behind every clause written out
  • A fallback ladder: 5 walk-away points tied to your best alternative
  • A signed license-valuation receipt (ML-DSA-65) anchored on Base 8453
Why HiveLicense beats current practice

Four models. Six methodologies. One signed receipt.

License negotiations run on a comp deck the licensor controls, and the licensee usually doesn't have their own. That makes the negotiation lopsided from the start. On top of that, ktMINE and RoyaltySource subscriptions cost $25K to $80K a year, per seat.

Here's how HiveLicense is different. Four models working together pull the comp deck from public SEC EX-10 filings, ETSI/IEEE SEP declarations, USPTO Assignment "consideration" fields, and CourtListener RECAP damages orders. Every comp gets scored against your asset across 8 different measures. The royalty range you get is the median of three court-accepted methods, with confidence bands attached. You walk into the room with real numbers, not just opinions.

Deliverable What you actually get Defensibility
Today's license negotiation The licensor's comp deck. No model to push back with. A range based on gut feel. gut feel
HiveLicense receipt An independent comp deck built from 4 models, checked against 6 court-accepted FRAND methods, scored across 8 similarity measures, with confidence bands. audit-grade
Labor budget today → Hive Today: $15K to $60K for outside counsel plus an analyst, and 6 to 10 weeks of prep.
With HiveLicense: $1,000 to start, 80% goes to the attorney of record, and you get your own rebuttal deck in 24 hours.
labor, not SaaS
Chain of custody

Mint a receipt for any HiveLicense output.

Paste a HiveLicense output below. The pipeline hashes it, captures the verifiable-compute attestation (model versions + input/output hashes + timestamp), signs the envelope with ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS-204 post-quantum), and anchors the hash on Base 8453.

Pricing tiers

HiveLicense pricing.

Every tier sends 80% to the attorney of record. Hive's 20% covers the rail, the receipts, and the signing infrastructure. That's all it covers.

TierPriceScope
Estimate$1,000A single-asset royalty-rate estimate, checked against 3 methods, with 10 comps.
Strategic$10,000 to $50,000The full negotiation packet: drafts, strategy memo, fallback ladder, and term-sheet redlines.
Enterprise FRAND$75,000 to $250,000 a yearOngoing SEP portfolio benchmarking, with a quarterly Avanci, Via LA, and Access Advance rate refresh.
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Attorney-reviewed only. Every HiveLicense output is bound to an attorney of record and requires attestation before reliance. Royalty rates are work-product, not legal advice.
Private by design. Hive does not store your prompts. Every request is already receipted by a one-way SHA-256 fingerprint, not the words. Proof, not surveillance.