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Intellectual Property Best Practices Benchmark Reports

ipPerformance has developed the largest selection of Intellectual Property Best Practices Benchmark Reports. Over 700 corporations have been benchmarked. Reports available for most industry segments. All survey topics and questions are reviewed and approved by our Corporate Intellectual Property

Leadership Advisory. Contact us if you would like participate as an advisor. All benchmark reports include a briefing session to discuss and answer questions about report content and subject area.

To get full report outlines or discuss the report topics in more detail, contact us at (630) 216-9673 or operations@ipperform.com.

In addition to our reports, we have developed products and services to assist you with your improvement plans. Products include eLearning Courses, IP Valuation Tool, IP Software RFP Modeling, IP Program Business Case, IP Center of Excellence and ipProcessManager. Our services include IP Program and Performance Metrics Assessments, IP Program Business Case, Inventor Rewards and Recognition Program Review and Impact Analysis.

2015 Reports

2015 Outside Counsel Costs, Cycle-time and Quality Management

The 2015 Intellectual Property Law Department: Outside Counsel Costs, Cycle-time and Quality Management study confirms that law firm management varies widely across companies, but there are best practices for managing law firm relationships to achieve high quality.

2015 IP Program Performance Metrics Benchmark Scorecard

Ninety-seven intellectual property program performance metrics are assembled in this report. Metrics are organized into eight operational and strategic perspectives.

Contact us to learn about our Intellectual Property Program Balanced Scorecard.

Developing IP Strategies and Performance Metrics Best Practices Report

Developing IP Strategies and Performance Metrics is a comprehensive report that tells you best practices methods for developing and monitoring intellectual property strategies in order to ensure their intellectual property strategies are effectively aligned with their business and technology goals.

This groundbreaking report will assist you in evaluating how your company prepares intellectual property strategies. For example, this report details strategy structure and information sources, roles and

responsibilities, key performance indicators, types of competitor information used,portfolio management decision criteria, and many other factors that impact intellectual property strategies.

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2014 Inventor Rewards and Recognition Report

The Inventor Rewards and Recognition Programs (IRRP) Best Practices Benchmark Report includes quantitative data from a survey of 68 innovation-driven companies across 24 major industries. This

information will show you how to create a winning reward and recognition program and avoid the mistakes made by others. In the report, IP and HR leaders share what does, and does not, work.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Which IP events are most awarded and which awards are most effective

• The dollar amounts awarded for each IP event

• The functions responsible for managing, monitoring, and promoting the inventor rewards and recognition program

• Total amounts paid out for various patent types (non-provisional, provisional and design)

• The rewards and recognition offered by top performance companies

• The number of awards peer companies offer

• Practices for handling international remuneration compliance

• The average program cost and cost per inventor

• The diversity of awards from a significant cross-industry sample

• Recent IRRP changes made by companies and the measurable results

Recognized participants include: Sika, Symantec, Cytec Industries Inc., Zebra Technologies, Wolfson

Microelectronics, Polaris Industries Inc., ARM Limited, Carestream Health, Vesuvius USA, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm, NetApp, ITT Corporation, Caterpillar, Nestle Oil, Praxair

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Patent Intelligence - Search and Analytics

Patent intelligence is vital to organizations that have strategy-driven patent programs and those that want to mitigate patent infringement risks. At an increasing rate, companies are using patent intelligence to make research and development decisions, anticipate competitor technology plans, develop licensing strategies, and establish comprehensive roadmaps.

This study can help executives learn how leading organizations use patent data to drive strategy and market success. To determine how best-in-class companies proactively manage their patent intelligence functions to sustain efficiency and profitability, ipPerformance researched several major topic areas:

1. Creating and communicating patent research value 2. Optimal structure and alignment

3. Critical uses

4. Key primary and secondary intelligence systems 5. External resource satisfaction.

This report covers the following topics:

• Organization internal patent intelligence support • Patent intelligence systems tools

• Systems/tools satisfaction

• Outsourcing of patent intelligence (search and analytics) • Service provider experience and satisfaction

• Competitor threats and opportunities monitoring • Preferences and opportunities

Recognized participants include: Zebra Technologies Corporation, Visa, Tessera, Scil Proteins, Sasol,

PepsiCo, Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd, Kimberly-Clark, ITT Corporation, GE, Cytec Industries Inc., Crown Packaging

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Corporate Intellectual Property Law Departments - Managing Law Firm Cost and

Quality (2013)

This ipPerformance report provides a comprehensive review of IP leader actions to handle the impact of the America Invents Act.

In this comprehensive study, innovation-driven companies shared detailed law firm activity costs, management and assessment practices, selection methods, operational costs, staffing and attorney responsibilities, patent filing strategies, and performance metrics. The analysis is a compilation of responses from 56 companies.

• IP law firm preparation and prosecution • Current trends in IP law firm usage • Time and efficiencies

• Alternative/fixed fee arrangements experience • Hourly rates

• Law firm costs averages

• Methods for improving cost and performance • Managing costs

• Legal process outsourcing strategies

Recognized participants include: AstenJohnson, Google, Deere & Company, Nissan North America,

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America Invents Act Impact on Patent Operations (2013)

This ipPerformance report provides a comprehensive review of IP leader actions to handle the impact of the America Invents Act. This report provides you with detailed analysis and actionable insights from 42 companies. The focus is on how companies have approached practices most affected by the new provisions.

Following are some of the questions investigated:

• What patent procurement process changes are being made? • What are the changes to disclosure policies?

• Are companies changing their use of inventor notebooks?

• How have companies adapted their program to increase USPTO costs? • How are IP Leaders viewing the secret sale?

• What is the most significant impact of pre- and post-grant processes? This report covers the following topics:

• First inventor to file - Disclosure (Section 102) • Cost management and impact on budget • Post-grant or inter partes review processes • Inventor notebook usage

• Patent monitoring and searching activities • Virtual marking

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Intellectual Property Training Programs (2013)

Corporate intellectual property training is considered to be a key factor in driving up invention disclosures and patent program support.

By revealing quantitative results from a survey of 38 corporations, the Intellectual Property Training Best

Practices Benchmark Report will show you how to create a highly effective training program that will lead

to strengthening employee knowledge and hence increase innovation activity. This report covers the following topics:

• Intellectual property stakeholder knowledge

• Intellectual property program governance and purpose • Delivery and awareness

• Measuring effectiveness and program satisfaction

• Corporate training integration and intellectual property training responsibility • Budget (ownership and amount)

• Company business data

Recognized participants include: Sasol, Flextronics, Sun Chemical, Futuragene Ltd, Dow Corning,

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Corporate Trade Secret Management and Proprietary Information Management

ipPerformance Group has gathered trade secret and proprietary information management policies and best practices from 33 IP-driven companies. This is the most comprehensive proprietary analysis for trade secret and proprietary information protection practices ever collected. You can be confident using our guide as the definitive source of benchmarking and best practices data.

• Trade secret management responsibility • Trade secret audits

• Identification and classification processes • America Invents Act

• Training

• Misappropriation and loss incidents

• Cybercrime and advanced persistent threats (APT) • Executive support

• Employee communication

• Trade secret management software tools • Trade secret management-methods

Recognized participants include: Freescale Semiconductor, Owens Corning, NOVA Chemicals, Clorox,

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Corporate Intellectual Property Law Departments - Patent Operation (2013)

The 2013 Intellectual Property Law Department Patent Operation study confirms that company IP department personnel resources and structure affect the department efficiencies and ROI on R&D spending.

In this comprehensive study, innovation-driven companies shared operational costs, staffing and attorney responsibilities, patent filing strategies, and performance metrics.

• Intellectual property business structure and governance • Intellectual property asset management team

• Patent activities in 2012 or last fiscal period • Patenting activity changes in 2013

• Patent/technology enforcement & disputes activities • Provisional patent filing

• Patent portfolio size and vitality • Staffing

• Worldwide staffing and locations • Department performance • Operational costs and budgeting • Inside patent attorney/agent workload • Patent attorney responsibilities

• Inside patent attorney/agent patent preparation and prosecution support • R&D activities

• Litigation activity and costs

• Intellectual property performance metrics and ratios • Intellectual property department personnel compensation

Recognized participants include: Praxair, Sasol Limited, FrieslandCampina, Flextronics, Deere &

Company, Nike, Adobe, USG, Sun Chemical, NOVA Chemicals Inc., Symantec, Zebra Technologies, Freescale Semiconductor, Electrolux, ArjoHuntleigh, Micro Encoder , Sisecam, Bombardier Aerospace, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Institut Straumann AG

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America Invents Act Impact on Patent Operations (2012)

This ipPerformance Report provides a comprehensive review of IP leader actions to handle the impact of the America Invents Act. It provides you with detailed analysis and actionable insights that will enable you to evaluate and compare your patent filing strategies, patent department expense budget decision making, and patenting practices. The analysis is a compilation of responses from 42 companies. This report covers the following topics:

• First inventor to file • Disclosure (Section 102)

• Cost management and impact on budget • Post-grant or inter partes review processes • Inventor notebook usage

• Patent monitoring and searching activities • Virtual marking

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Intellectual Asset Management Software Solutions

ipPerformance provides a comprehensive review of the leading enterprise intellectual asset management (IAM) software solutions. This is the only report that provides you with detailed customer satisfaction feedback. It includes software functionality and design, vendor services and support capabilities, and product strengths and weaknesses. While it is important to evaluate IAM solutions with detailed product requirements and feature demonstrations, learning about actual customer experience is vital to the selection process and can reduce the risk and expense of a bad selection.

Detailed analysis for IAM software systems: Anaqua, CPA Memotech, CPA Foundation IP, CPI, Lecorpio and Thomson IP Manager.

Brief reviews for IAM software systems: Innovation Asset Decipher and CPA Ipendo. This report covers the following topics:

• Product strengths and weaknesses • Software functionality satisfaction ratings • Key benefits

• How satisfied are companies with vendor support?

• Which product capabilities are companies more satisfied with? • Key reports for updating management

• Key reports for tracking reports track department activity or make department decisions • Capabilities companies are looking for in new or replacement software

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Trademark Management and Operations Best Practices

ipPerformance Group conducted its Trademark Management & Operations study to assess the current state of best practices and use of technology within global brand-driven companies.

We interviewed legal and trademark department personnel who have responsibility for managing, processing, and/or executing activities throughout the life cycle of trademarks from a broad range of enterprises. We selected participant companies based on relative size in their industry, significance of trademark portfolio, and their eminence in managing brands. Topics of the questionnaire used for each interview covered the entire intellectual property life cycle—strategy, organization, processes, and systems—as well as the technology tools deployed by each company. While the number of companies involved does not provide for statistically significant data interpretation, the results of this study, summarized in this report, provide valuable insights into the practices of these leading intellectual property companies. Additionally, valuable information is contained in statements by interviewees that provide even more information on industry practices outside of the scope of the specific companies and topics involved in the study.

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Inventor Reward and Recognition Programs (2011)

How important are Inventor Reward and Recognition Programs (IRRP) in promoting and cultivating innovation and inventiveness? What are the most important elements of these programs in innovative companies?

The 2011 Inventor Reward and Recognition Programs benchmark report provides valuable insights on IRRP best practices, including

• IRRPs for companies across industries

• How important rewards are in motivating inventors

• The most important characteristics or attributes that make an organization's IRRP effective • The effects of programs overall

• The importance of financial versus nonfinancial rewards

• The types of rewards used per type of innovative practice and/or milestone

• Financial amounts and caps on amounts per type of innovative practice and/or milestone. Learn what types of recognition are being used for the following types of milestones in

companies: invention disclosure, initial patent filings, patent grants (utility/process), patent grants (design), trade secrets, defensive publications, provisional patent applications, and licensed-in technology.

Key Subjects

• How important awards are to motivating inventors – why they are important • Reasons for having a program and the effects of not having a program • Types of rewards used for inventors including financial versus nonfinancial • Use of multi-tier, accrual, or graduated incentive rewards and their importance • Challenges to programs

• Location of program in companies

Sample metrics

• Importance of types of awards to inventors and motivation

• Levels of financial awards used including bonus amounts for significant commercial success • Extra incentive methods used

• Frequency of recognition events

• Degree of R&D involvement/performance linkage to program

Participants: 136 Companies, 24 Major Industries

Recognized participants include: Weatherford International, Kohler Co., Qualcomm Incorporated,

Cirrus Logic, Inc., Rockwell Automation, Flextronics, Symantec Corporation, Medtronic Inc., The Nielsen Company, Fresenius Medical Care North America, Time Warner Inc . , Sasol, Wolfson Microelectronics, Sun Chemical Corporation, DSM Desotech, Appear, Universal Electronics, nexans, Targacept, Trimble, RAD Data Communications, Motorola, Brady Corporation, Polaris Industries, Cargill Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Fortum Corporation, Tektronix, Inc., USG Corp., Praxair, Dayco Products, LLC, Cummins Inc., NICE Systems, Pitney Bowes Inc., China Petrochemical Technology Co., Ltd., VAST Power Systems, Inc., Caterpillar Inc., SABIC, The Clorox Company, Delphi

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Intellectual Property Law Department Patent Operations (2011)

How are IP Departments staffed? How are they managing internal and law firm costs? How are they adapting their patenting filing strategies to meet cost pressures?

The Intellectual Property Law Department Patent Operations benchmark report provides valuable insights regarding department expenses and professional and nonprofessional staffing, patent attorney workload, and outside counsel trends including costs and usage of innovation-driven companies.

Key subjects:

• Attorney and patent liaison workload • IP/patent department staffing • US and worldwide spending • Outside counsel usage and costs • Patent preparation workflow cycles

Sample metrics:

• Patent attorney-to-staff ratio • Average patenting costs

• Patent attorney workload and responsibilities

• Patent attorney and patent liaison activity - time spent • R&D-to-patent department ratios

• Outside counsel - use and costs

Recognized participants include: NICE Systems, NOVA Chemicals Inc., JDSU, Dow Corning

Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, Whisper Tech Ltd., Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Wolfson Microelectronics, Sun Chemical Corporation, LyondellBasell, Swagelok, Celanese Corporation, Kinetic Concepts, Inc.,

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Additional Benchmark Reports

Intellectual Property Management (Strategy, Operations, People, Tools)

An extensive look into the complete lifecycle of intellectual property management.

The Strategic Intellectual Property Management Best Practices report is the most comprehensive investigation into all aspects of intellectual property management. It provides valuable benchmarking, metrics, and qualitative information that can be used by a diverse group of corporate management. Key subjects:

• The role of intellectual property strategy • Technology development and innovation • Intellectual property operations

• Intellectual property management • Trade secrets

• Resources

• Intellectual property strategy • Licensing management • Litigation and enforcement • Patent quality

• Operational and strategic metrics

Sponsors: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., International Truck Company, 3M Company, Air Products and

Chemicals, Inc., Affymetrix, International Truck & Engine Corporation

Strategic Intellectual Property Planning, Metrics, and Tools

Intellectual property is playing an ever-greater role across industries and markets. Leading companies are developing comprehensive strategies with performance measures to evaluate their success. This study provides significant insights into strategy considerations for managing and monetizing intellectual property, and identifies the roles that participate in planning them.

Key subjects:

• Methods for calculating patent value • Patent strategy success measures

• Effectively managing intellectual property portfolio • Measures used to gain management support • Intellectual property management software tools

Recognized participants include: Steelcase Inc., Wm. Wrigley Jr., Elekta Instrument AB, Pratt &

Whitney, The Dow Chemical Company, Stryker Orthopaedics, Nestle Purina, BD Medical, Brady, Swagelok Company, Abbott Laboratories, Navistar, Inc., Praxair Technology, Inc., Caterpillar, Freescale Semiconductor

Intellectual Property Law Department Operations and Metrics

The Intellectual Property Law Department Operations and Metrics benchmark report provides valuable insights regarding department expenses and professional and nonprofessional staffing, patent attorney

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Key subjects:

• Attorney and patent liaison workload • IP/patent department staffing • US and worldwide spending • Outside counsel usage and costs • Patent preparation workflow cycles

Sample metrics:

• Patent-attorney-to-staff ratio • Average patenting costs

• Patent attorney workload and responsibilities • Patent attorney activity – time spent

• R&D-to-patent department ratios • Outside counsel – use and costs

Recognized participants include: Kimberly-Clark, Affymetrix Inc., Deere & Company, Caterpillar,

Praxair Technology, Inc., Palm, Inc., Eastman Chemical Company, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Lexmark

Inventor Reward & Recognition Programs Best Practices

Inventors are motivated by company incentive and recognition programs. This report provides you with a thorough review of comprehensive inventor reward and recognition programs. The report includes detailed analysis of the program characteristics that have proven to have positive results. It reviews the variety of approaches that world-class companies take and confirms the effectiveness of those programs. The report presents proven methods for increasing the quality and value of existing programs and will help executives create new and highly effective inventor incentive programs to achieve the results needed during these turbulent times.

Key subjects:

• Inventor reward and recognition program structures • Financial award values

• Nonfinancial recognition

• Extraordinary awards (e.g., annual, success, inventor of the year) • International management and harmonization

• Program objectives and performance metrics • Promotional methods

• Program costs

• Program management

Recognized participants include: Caterpillar, Nestle Purina, Boston Scientific, Halliburton, Ford Motor

Company, Deere & Company, Freescale Semiconductor, Praxair Technology, Inc., Eastman Kodak, Sharp Electronics Corporation, The Clorox Company

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Intellectual Property Training Best Practices

The IP Training Program Best Practices Survey was conducted among IP leaders representing 23 major industries. Survey participants were questioned on a range of topics, including curriculum, program management and budgeting, delivery methods, effectiveness on employee and senior management IP knowledge, and program goals and objectives.

Recognized participants include: Teradyne, Inc., Lam Research, Praxair, ASM International NV,

Freescale Semiconductor, Deere& Company, Sasol, and JohnsonDiversey.

Intellectual Property Department Cost Management

ipPerformance Group compiled a unique view into how companies are adjusting to the economic downturn. This study will provide you with insights on widespread changes companies have made and the results of those changes. It explores how companies have revised their patenting strategies to meet budget conditions. Report topics include:

• How companies are adapting to the current economic and financial climate • Cost reduction efforts and impacts

• Changes in filing strategies • Preparation and prosecution costs • IP/Patent department staffing

• Outside counsel usage, fee structure, and costs

Intellectual Property Portfolio Management Shootout Results

In the ipPerformance Group report, Shootout Vendors in Intellectual Property Portfolio Management

Software Applications, ipPerformance Group organizes assessments made by intellectual property

leaders from Fortune 500 companies. Highlighted vendors include CPA Global, Innovation Asset Group, and Thomson IP Management Systems.

ipPerformance Group gathered and analyzed feedback from corporate intellectual property leaders as they evaluated the capabilities of the CPA Memotech, Thomson IP Manager, and Innovation Asset Group Decipher applications. We evaluated these results as they relate to study subjects’ portfolio management and business productivity. The research found that each vendor offered unique and valuable user experiences and capabilities. On average, participating IP leaders rated the Decipher solution more favorably for being able to look at the current state of their IP portfolio and their IP portfolio approach. Thomson IP Manager was more favorably rated for its capabilities in looking at future directions and identifying gaps and weaknesses. Memotech was rated highly for identifying portfolio costs and

identifying the linkage between products and patents. These findings are based on a business intellectual property portfolio management capability measurement framework developed by ipPerformance Group.

Patent Search and Analytics – Tools and Services

ipPerformance investigated patent analytics programs best practices.

This report details internal resources and methods, as well as the purpose of and approach to outsourcing to external services providers.

Key subjects:

• Most popular content providers and analytics tools • User satisfaction and most valuable features

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• Most prevalent objectives and activities

• Third party services performance and improvements • Popular content and analytics tools

Participants: 105 companies, 15 major industries

Recognized participants include: Weyerhaeuser NR Company, Agilent Technologies, Eastman

Chemical Company, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Praxair Technology, Inc., Suncor Energy, The Dow Chemical Company, Deere & Company, Kimberly-Clark

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More on ipPerformance Group

ipPerformance Group, Inc. (www.ipperform.com) is the leading intellectual property advisory company. We enable our clients to apply best practices and measure IP performance by drawing upon our knowledge of more than 450 intellectual property management benchmarks, all from Global 1000 companies. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to solve complex intellectual property business problems and measurably enhance your ability to build value, manage risk, and improve performance in an intellectual property-driven world. The following outlines some of our other offerings. In addition to our IRRP report, we also offer the following services to help take your IP activities to the next level.

ipPerformance’s assessments apply their extensive experience of high-performance organizations to provide an objective and powerful perspective on the leadership behaviors that will have the greatest effect on sustained intellectual property program performance.

Intellectual Property Management Program “Yard Stick” Review

The “Yard Stick” is a comprehensive assessment of your intellectual property asset management program. It includes evaluating policies, procedures, workflows, software, people, operational performance metrics (costs, cycle-time, value), training program, and stakeholder interactions. We provide an in-depth review of your operation, identify issues or concerns, and provide you best practices and a roadmap with improvement opportunities.

Intellectual Property Management Performance Scorecard Review

An Intellectual Property Scorecard is an effective performance metrics tool for communicating value, process efficiencies, and financial management to top management. The scorecard is shows financial management, business alignment, portfolio management, risk management, people management, innovation management, and learning and knowledge growth. In addition, we offer workshops to help you develop a measurement program tailored to your unique organizational needs. Construct a scorecard that provides your organization with strategic and operational metrics that guide business decisions.

Intellectual Property Center of Excellence (IP Knowledge Center)

The IP Center of Excellence is an intellectual property asset management intranet portal system and content solution. This online solution incorporates ipProcess Manager our comprehensive and detailed intellectual property program policies, forms and procedures based on best practices that are customized to meet your company’s circumstances. It enables your organization to quickly establish robust, accesible and documented controls for all aspects of your intellectual property program.

Intellectual Property Advantage: Portfolio Evaluation

ipPerformance assist clients to organize, classify and evaluate their IP portfolio. Our methodology enables your organization to better manage their assets for value identification, cost reduction, litigation support, improved asset access and understanding, and for reporting and communications. It enables you to effectively understand your portfolio.

Intellectual Property Advantage: Process Review and Roadmap

ipPerformance works with clients evaluate current processes and objectives against best practices. We then develop a “should be” map that illustrates improvement opportunities that align with the business strategy that create value, improve quality, and save costs. We leverage our extensive experience applying best practices and understanding cultural change.

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Intellectual Property Training for Stakeholders

ipPerformance Group offers an extensive line of online eLearning training courses on intellectual property. These courses will help your company’s business and technology professionals develop the skills they need to create, protect, manage, and monetize intellectual property.

Our eLearning curriculum reflects a diverse set of intellectual property asset training courses. We cover everything from improving basic understanding of intellectual property to exploring strategic

considerations of key stakeholders in areas like marketing, business management, supply chain/commercial management and technology (R&D).

Inventor Intellectual Property Attitude Assessment

Establishing and maintaining a strong inventor IP attitude and understanding is vital to inspiring

innovation and gaining valuable invention idea submissions. ipPerformance will assist your company in its effort to obtain and understand factors that will motivate your inventor community to identify and disclose valuable key invention ideas. Moreover, this assessment enables you to identify bottlenecks and key areas for improvement that lead to increase in valuable inventions and R&D’s return on investment.

IP Management Software Selection and Return on Investment Evaluation

Selecting IP asset management software is not a trivial activity. To some it feels like travelling rapid river waters with a high degree of turbulence and velocity. Applying a practical and methodical approach will enable you avoid vendors experience of unmet needs, protracted delivery deadlines and deployment readiness. ipPerformance proprietary Software Solutions Request for Proposal (RFP) and selection tool is comprehensive with over 1200 attributes and enables you to prioritize your requirements and evaluate alternative solutions. In addition, we can walk you

Strategy Development Workshop

Form intellectual property strategies that enable your company to achieve business growth goals and sustainable competitive advantage. This 1-day workshop is developed to help intellectual property and business leaders develop and communicate clear IP strategies and tactics that are directly aligned to business strategy.

Drawing on ipPerformance‘s advisors extensive business and intellectual property experience, this highly interactive course uses lectures, case studies, group exercises and classroom discussion to explore the foundations of strategic intellectual property. This workshop will provide you with our IP strategy planning guide, which includes a IP strategy framework, templates, techniques, performance metrics and

perspective to help you develop strategic plans to excel in today’s business environment.

ipProcess Manager

Establishing your intellectual property program standard operating procedures can be a time-consuming and complicated process. ipProcess Manager is a comprehensive intellectual property program resource with workflows procedures, policies, forms, templates, agreements, and flow charts. Our guide covers invention submission, review and decision-making, inventorship, portfolio management and inventory classification, agreement approvals, strategy development, foreign filing decisions, technology release, inventor reward, new product clearance and handling unsolicited idea. The ipPerformance ipProcess Manager is designed to help businesses of all kinds take control of their intellectual property asset management operations through consist implementation of best practices.

Benchmarking Analysis

ipPerformance provides the largest off –the-shelf selection of intellectual property program best practices benchmark reports. Applying this extensive repository, we can evaluate your program versus peers and best practices. Additionally, utilizing our extensive company network, we can conduct company tailored benchmarks that enable your organization to investigate specific topics of concern.