The invention is a method of determining the risk associated with licensing and/or enforcing intellectual property by interacting with a pre-programmed computer, entering information from an assessment form and task sheet submitted by the Intellectual Property owner and from other sources, evaluating the information by comparing it to pre-set standards, computing a composite score which represents the risk associated with commercializing such intellectual property, and using that score to determine the desirability of undertaking the commercialization of Intellectual Property by multiplying the total cost of attempted licensing and/or enforcement lawsuits by the composite score to arrive at a final cash requirement which is compared to a target recovery.