A facility for the finding, acquisition, and maintenance of intellectual property assets is described. The facility receives an indication of potentially acquirable intellectual property assets. The facility qualifies the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets using pre-determined qualification criteria. The facility receives an indication of the value of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets. The facility provides information regarding the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets to a user for use in negotiating the acquisition of one or more of the potentially acquirable intellectual property assets.