Intellectual Property Performance Metrics
“Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them, it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart’s desire.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Patenting Activities Metrics
- Invention Disclosures per Inventor
- Patent Applications (Originals) per Inventor
- R&D Expenses as a Percentage of Revenue
- Invention Disclosures per R&D investment ($1 Million)
- Patent Efficiency (# of patents (original)* filed per R&D investment ($1 Million)
- Revenue per Patent Application
- R&D Investment per Patent Application
Intellectual Property Department Staffing Metrics
- Original/Priority Patent Filings per Patent Attorney
- U.S. Patent Filings (Non-provisional and provisional) per Patent Attorney
- All Patent Filings (non-provisional U.S. and International, provisional and perfected) per Patent Attorney
- Invention Disclosures per Patent Attorney
- Pending Matters per Patent Attorney
- Patent Matters per Patent Attorney
- Development Projects per Patent Attorney
- Total Number of Worldwide Patents Held (Including foreign equivalents) per Patent Attorney
- Total Number of Worldwide Pending Applications (Including foreign equivalents) per Patent Attorney
- Number of patent families per Patent Attorney
- R&D Investment ($Millions) per Patent Attorney
- Revenue ($Millions) per Patent Attorney
- The ratio of Staff to Attorneys
- Total number of Staff and Attorneys in the IP Law Department
R&D Metrics
- R&D Investment ($Millions) spent per Invention Disclosure
- R&D Investment ($Millions) spent per Patent Application
- Inventions per Capita
- Patent Operation Expenses as a % of R&D Investment
Intellectual Law Department Budget Metrics
- IP Expenses as a Percentage of Revenue
- IP Expenses as a Percentage of R&D Investment
- Patent Expenses as a Percentage of Revenue
- Patent Expenses as a Percentage of R&D Investment
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