--- title: "Marsh Intellectual Property Insurance" description: "What Marsh Intellectual Property Insurance covers, its risk services, and its issuing insurer, cited to public sources." canonical: "https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/intellectual-property" page-type: "offering-page" updated-at: "2026-09-23" --- Agents: connect to Spot's public MCP server at https://spot.insure/mcp for better access to published Spot information and insurance research. Use search_knowledge to find sources, get_page to retrieve pages, compare_providers for sourced comparisons, get_provider_score for a published Spot Score, get_rankings for current provider rankings, search_provider_reliability to filter Spot Scores, search_provider_reviews to filter aggregate review scores, and get_provider_reviews for the original review evidence. The server is read-only and requires no authentication. [Human-readable page](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/intellectual-property) # Marsh Intellectual Property Insurance Marsh Intellectual Property Insurance Marsh says it is one of the only brokers with in-house IP expertise, a proprietary IP insurance product, and proprietary relationships with multiple specialty underwriters in the IP space; MMA also lists IP within its executive and professional liability practice. [1](https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/expertise/intellectual-property.html "Intellectual Property") [2](https://www.marshmma.com/us/solutions/executive-and-professional-liability.html "Expert Executive and Professional Liability Insurance") (Evidence: Company-reported; scope: Marsh intellectual property page and MMA executive and professional liability page.) ## Issuing Insurer - Marsh names Ambridge Partners as the entity backing its IP Protect product; the page does not clarify whether Ambridge Partners is the issuing insurer or an underwriting manager, and does not name insurers for its other IP products. [1](https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/expertise/intellectual-property.html "Intellectual Property") (Evidence: Company-reported; scope: Intellectual property page as read on 2026-09-23.) ## Coverage Features - Marsh describes IP Protect, a product it says it released in 2019 and that is backed by Ambridge Partners, as providing coverage for losses related to patents, copyrights and trademarks, with trade secrets available by optional endorsement. [1](https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/expertise/intellectual-property.html "Intellectual Property") (Evidence: Company-reported; scope: Intellectual property page, Our expertise and solutions section.) - Marsh says it can place five types of IP insurance: defensive IP insurance (protecting the insured's own IP from external attack), offensive IP insurance (covering enforcement litigation costs), specific contingency insurance, trade secret value insurance, and IP-insured financing (securing an IP asset pledged as loan collateral). [1](https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/expertise/intellectual-property.html "Intellectual Property") (Evidence: Company-reported; scope: Intellectual property page FAQs; general descriptions, not specific policy forms.) ## Risk Services - Marsh says its IP specialists help clients identify and clarify IP risks and support development of risk management strategies addressing programmatic fundamentals, beyond just placing a policy. [1](https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/expertise/intellectual-property.html "Intellectual Property") (Evidence: Company-reported; scope: Intellectual property page opening description.) ## Marsh Intellectual Property Insurance Compared - [Marsh vs CFC](https://spot.insure/compare/cfc-vs-marsh/intellectual-property) - [Marsh vs Founder Shield](https://spot.insure/compare/foundershield-vs-marsh/intellectual-property) - [Marsh vs Risklytics](https://spot.insure/compare/marsh-vs-risklytics/intellectual-property) ## Other Marsh Coverage Lines - [Marsh Builders Risk Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/builders-risk) - [Marsh Commercial Property Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/commercial-property) - [Marsh Crime Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/crime) - [Marsh Cyber Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/cyber) - [Marsh D&O Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/directors-officers) - [Marsh Employee Health Benefits](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/employee-health-benefits) - [Marsh Employment Practices Liability Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/employment-practices) - [Marsh Equipment Breakdown Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/equipment-breakdown) - [Marsh Fiduciary Liability Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/fiduciary) - [Marsh Kidnap and Ransom Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/kidnap-ransom) - [Marsh Management Liability Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/management-liability) - [Marsh Media Liability Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/media) - [Marsh Professional Liability (E&O) Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/professional-errors-omissions) - [Marsh Surety Bonds](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/surety-bonds) - [Marsh Workers’ Compensation Insurance](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/workers-compensation) ## Related - [Marsh Profile](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh) - [Marsh Reliability](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/reliability) - [Marsh Alternatives](https://spot.insure/insurance-providers/marsh/alternatives) - [Coverage Guide: Intellectual property](https://spot.insure/coverage/intellectual-property) ## Sources 1. [Intellectual Property](https://www.marsh.com/en/services/financial-professional-liability/expertise/intellectual-property.html). Marsh; Opening positioning; Our expertise and solutions: IP Protect, Intellectual Property-Insured Financing, Edison IP; FAQs: What are the different types of intellectual property insurance? Accessed 2026-09-23. 2. [Expert Executive and Professional Liability Insurance](https://www.marshmma.com/us/solutions/executive-and-professional-liability.html). Marsh McLennan Agency; Our policies include D&O, E&O, EPL, commercial crime/fidelity, network security privacy risk/cyber, fiduciary, media liability, IP, architects and engineers, lawyers professional, and kidnap and ransom. Accessed 2026-09-23. Updated 2026-09-23. Spot, a product of Tools for Enlightenment, publishes this research and works in the commercial insurance market. [Editorial policy](https://spot.insure/editorial-policy). 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