Intellectual Property Law Department Best Practices Report
ipPerformance’s comprehensive Intellectual Property Law Department Best Practices Report covers most IP department practices, including billing/fee arrangement, patent costs, attorney and support staffing, intellectual property workflow and cycle-time, intellectual property operational locations, patent review committees, patent search approaches, IP operations outsourcing, and outside counsel patent preparation and prosecution responsibilities.
ipPerformance learned in this Intellectual Property Law Department Best Practices study that most companies have various professional and non-professional functions that spend a significant portion of their time on patent application preparation and prosecution activities. Companies use multiple law firm fee arrangements. Patent searches are conducted before most patent filings. The Corporate Intellectual Property Best Practices Report elaborates on these results and many other facts. The Intellectual Property Law Department Best Practices report includes over 60 charts.
This Intellectual Property Law Department Best Practices Report enables you to evaluate the following:
- IP Department Costs and Operational Efficiency
- IP Department Staffing Size, Ratios, and Structure (Professional and Non-Professional)
- Law Firm Fee and Billing Costs and Arrangements
- Operational Locations – U.S. and International
- Patent Portfolio Management, including pruning practices
- IP Software
- IP Legal Process Outsourcing
- In-House Patent Attorney/Agent Workload
- Patent Attorney Responsibilities
- Patenting Workflow Cycle Time
- Patent Filing Strategies
- Area Filing Strategies & Locations
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