How entrepreneurs succeed with intellectual property

“Since 2004 MarkCrest has strived to become the leader in intellectual property monetization, with almost $500 million in valuations achieved.”⁠^[1]⁠^[2]
Maynard L. Dokken, President & CEO

Create & protect Network

A young woman raises her fist in front of a white brick wall covered in hand-drawn sketches: a lightbulb, a check mark, rockets and the word Idea — An idea, sketched on the wall: where every entrepreneur starts.

Helping entrepreneurs realize their vision

MarkCrest gives every one of its individual clients a commitment: we will focus on their goals.

The foundations of your venture’s value

Strategic capital

A company’s value is built on many foundations, with many forms of strategic capital.

Products and opportunities

Intellectual property is the economic driver of today’s modern economy.⁠^[3] It is complex, and it takes discipline. MarkCrest provides the management and expertise to develop these critical assets into products, and to identify opportunities.

Focus on your goals and funds

A personal action plan, and a strategy that evolves as markets change.

Whether your dream is building the next worldwide financial-services product or sending your children to the school of their choice, you can be sure a MarkCrest advisor will embrace your ideas and work toward making them a reality.

Your advisor will analyze your situation and give you a dynamic, personal action plan, set personal goals, and build a strategy that evolves as markets change. MarkCrest can help you identify the resources you need to build and access funding channels, build support for worldwide licensing models, and analyze your needs, including:

Financial programs targeted to your intellectual property’s needs
Marketing options that let you save and invest for immediate priorities and long-term objectives
Joint and cross-marketing opportunities, to build a diversified licensing portfolio
Exclusive market and research commentary, to help you make informed decisions

MarkCrest can work with you and turn your ideas into reality.

Your path through the ten steps

Create

Step 1: Idea

The starting point is an idea, a vision, an architecture: the intellectual property that may be unique, and could be valuable if protected.

Protect

Step 2: Protect

Is the idea unique? If it is, you need to decide how to build a framework that protects it.

Then plan

Step 3: Plan

Life goes on and things happen, even after your IP is protected. What you have created and protected needs attention too.

Protecting value, all the way to monetization

Steps 3 to 7: Plan, policies, access, agreements, ownership

Now come the important steps to monetization. Plan, and create policies around your intellectual property. Understand what access means and how to protect it. Create agreements that protect access and value. Document ownership.

Steps 8 to 10: Audits, infringement, documentation

Audit your intellectual property and the status of each asset. Understand what infringement means, and the best way to approach it, whether you are infringing or being infringed. Documentation will ultimately be the most important piece of the monetization process: think of it as a documented audit trail.

References

↑ MarkCrest (introduction). Maynard L. Dokken, the record.
↑ MarkCrest: The intellectual-property practice. Maynard L. Dokken, the record. maynardldokken.com/markcrest/#practice
↑ Knowledge economy. Wikipedia.

Every source above was opened and checked on 3 November 2026.