Mike Pellegrino is the Founder and President of Pellegrino & Associates, LLC (P&A), a boutique intellectual property (IP) valuation firm. He has significant experience valuing patents and other forms of intellectual property, establishing royalty rates, and evaluating businesses. His company engagements number more than 300 for more than 200 clients, ranging from Fortune 100 companies like IBM, GE, State Farm, Liberty Mutual, American Express, and Lockheed Martin to startups. Judges, attorneys, and government entities such as the IRS and the SEC have widely accepted his work product. Courts at the state and federal level, tax jurisdictions, and arbitration panels have accepted Mike's work for issues including bankruptcy valuations, estate tax valuations, copyright infringement claims, trade secret misappropriation claims, patent infringement claims, breach of contract claims and others. One North Carolina court stated that Mike's work is “clearly in the mainstream of IP valuation methodologies” and that his qualifications were “outstanding.”
Mike's experience positions him as a market leader in intangible asset valuation. He is the author of first and second editions of BVR's Guide to Intellectual Property Valuation, selling more than 700 books to a variety of customers including attorneys, tech transfer officers, business valuation firms, competing IP valuation firms, and more. In addition, his finance- and software-related articles appear in internationally and nationally recognized outlets, such as IAM Magazine, CFO Magazine, MSNBC.com, FoxNews.com, and others. Mike has had the pleasure of teaching thousands of people about valuations. Various venues around the globe, including law firms, universities, accounting firms, appraisal firms, valuation firms, state bar associations, and other organizations, frequently request his expertise at speaking engagements regarding intangible asset valuations and the tax effects of embedded application software and intellectual property. Some of the venues include the following:
Professional societies: American Society of Appraisers, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators, The Association for University Technology Managers, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, the Oregon State Bar Association, and state CPA societies from Florida, Maryland, New York, and Ohio. Government agencies: The National Institutes of Health, The Malaysian Government, the Malaysian Patent Office, and International Visitor Leadership Program, which was part of the United States Department of State Others: Purdue University, The University of Illinois School of Law, the Indiana University School of Law, The Indiana University School of Informatics, Georgetown University Law Center, TEDx, the Management Roundtable, and Business Valuation Resources In addition to speaking engagements, Mike teaches webinars regarding valuation and related topics. To date, students number more than 1,200 and include those across most major economic analysis firms, the IRS, financial institutions, and others. For instance, students come from Charles River Associates, Stout Risius Ross, Inc., Wells Fargo, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mike has also taught scores of technology transfer and IP managers from the likes of Baxter Healthcare, John Deere, DSM, Harley Davidson, Novelis, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Nestle, Alcoa, Dow, Georgia-Pacific, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Kraft Foods, Celanese, SC Johnson, Altria, AB Inbev, James Hardie Building Products, Avery Dennison, Vale, Exxon Mobil, United Health Group, General Electric, FedEx, The Hershey Company, and Baxa Corporation among others.
Mike has taught IP valuation concepts to officials from the governments of Brazil, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Thailand, Guatemala, and New Zealand on behalf of the U.S. State Department. He has counseled and testified before legislators about valuation issues. He was also instrumental in helping to change Indiana law regarding the valuation of embedded application software for personal property tax reporting purposes and for the taxation of patent-derived income. He authored the administrative rules that Indiana's Department of Local Government and Finance now uses to administer the evaluation of software appraisals for property tax matters.
In addition to his valuation expertise, Mike developed a state-of-the-art patent analytics tool that provides key insights and intelligence into the patent landscape. This system removes information asymmetry rampant in the patent marketplace by consolidating millions of disparate records into a user-friendly database.
His educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Indiana Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in business administration from Ball State University. He also completed additional accounting coursework sufficient to fulfill the academic requirements for an undergraduate accounting degree. In addition, he completed both the 15-hour and 7-hour update USPAP training programs. He remains current with all USPAP training. Further training involves numerous ICLEF and NBI seminars on a variety of issues."