Intellectual Property Best Practices Benchmark Studies

Best Practices Benchmarking®

The intellectual property benchmark studies below are part of ipPerformance’s best practices research. They enable companies to assess peer companies for strategy, organization structure, processes, practices, performance metrics, costs, and software systems.

Benefits of Participating:
By participating in one of the following surveys, you will receive the following:

  • Free copy of the summary results
  • Significant discounts on the detailed reports, including industry and custom analysis (40% or more off the list price)
  • One-on-one support to interpret survey results

Active Intellectual Property Benchmark Surveys

 

Inventor Rewards and Recognition Program Practices 

The goal of this benchmark study is to learn and provide you insight into how companies:

  • Financial and Non-financial awards
  • Program management
  • Program performance and improvements
  • Global Programs

> Start Inventor Rewards & Recognition Program Survey

Trade Secret Management Practices 

The goal of this benchmark study is to learn and provide you insight into how companies:

  • Capture and manage trade secrets
  • Control and prevent trade secret and proprietary information misappropriation
  • Use software tools to detect leakage/theft of trade secrets and proprietary information
  • Handling the use of artificial intelligence tools
  • Improve employee trade secret understanding and handling

> Start Trade Secret Management Practices Survey

Intellectual Property Intelligence Practices 

Learn how your peer companies capture inventions.

  • Most popular IP intelligence systems and valued features
  • User satisfaction and most/least valuable IP intelligence system capabilities
  • Effective IP intelligence analysis reports for management
  • Effective AI-enabled patent search solutions
  • Prevalent IP intelligence objectives and activities
  • How companies use 3rd party services to conduct IP intelligence

> Start Inventor Rewards & Recognition Program Survey

Invention Harvesting and Invention Disclosure Practices 

Learn how your peer companies capture inventions.

  • Invention capture and pre-invention submission activities
  • Invention workshops and brainstorming sessions

>> Start Invention Harvesting and Invention Disclosure Survey


Intellectual Property Training Programs

Learn how your peer companies conduct and manage workforce training.

  • IP training topics
  • Delivery methods used to train
  • Strategies for improving course participation
  • Training promotions
  • Functions responsible for training
  • Measuring the effectiveness of training

>> Start IP Training Program Survey

 

Intellectual Asset Management Practices Diagnostic

The Intellectual Asset Management Practices Diagnostic provides IP, R&D, and business leaders with a scorecard assessment that leaders can review within the company.
>> Start Your Intellectual Asset Management Practices Assessment

Upcoming Intellectual Property Benchmarking Surveys

Intellectual Property Law Department Practices (includes spending and performance measures)

Intellectual Asset Management Software Satisfaction

Open Innovation and Technology Scouting Practices

International Inventor Remuneration Practices