IP Benchmark Report

ICO PQM™ IP Best Practices Benchmarking Report Services

PATENT QUALITY MANAGEMENT (PQM™) IP BEST PRACTICES:

CONSULTING FOR ENTERPRISE

Process analysis and qualitative intellectual property benchmarking and
Best Practices report services for Enterprise.

CONTENTS

Commitment

The primary objective of this service is to assist CEOs of the most innovative corporations enhance global competitive positioning, resulting in increased shareholder value.

About

PatentCafe provides an exclusive on-site consulting service that reviews enterprise-wide intellectual property practices. Our consulting staff includes professionals experienced in Fortune 100 executive management in the fields of manufacturing, marketing, IT, business development, venture capital, and patent law.

In contrast to intellectual asset management (IAM) services offered by IP consulting firms focused primarily on invention and law, PatentCafe extends enterprise process management beyond IAM with a PQM process that applies as much to Manufacturing and Human Resources, as it does to the traditional R&D, legal and finance / investment realms.

The deliverables, the Qualitative Intellectual Property Benchmarking Report, provides recommendations, identifies shortcomings, highlights acceptable current intellectual property practices, and helps senior-level executives shape a corporate-wide Intellectual Property Best Practices program. Get more information …

The Imperative

During the 1980s and 1990s, Total Quality Management (TQM) set the standard of practice for extracting maximum efficiency and value from Improvement & Maintenance of existing enterprise systems. The TQM refined processes and means to attain higher performance targets. TQM maximizes processes performed “inside of the box”.

By its very nature, corporate innovation is a perpetual “future timeline” event residing “outside the box”. The shortcoming of TQM systems is its inability to maximize systems and processes for events and innovation that are yet to occur.

PQM is the process of extending operations, processes and systems outside of current operations in order to Create, Protect and Exploit processes, technologies and products that never existed, and therefore do not fall within TQM’s ability to “improve and maintain”.

Beneficiaries

• Enterprise Managers (Increase Shareholder Value)
• IAM, IP & Business Consultants (Services Augmentation)
• Firms with strong Corporate and IP areas of practice
• Venture Capitalists (Due Diligence)

Details: Report Contents

The Qualitative Intellectual Property Benchmarking Report presents the findings and recommendations following a review of the client’s existing process of fostering and managing innovation across all cross-functional departments and disciplines throughout the organization.

1.0 Patent Quality Management™ in the Enterprise
2.0 PQM Management Team Development
3.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Human Resources
4.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Manufacturing
5.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Engineering / R&D;
6.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Marketing & Sales
7.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Corporate Counsel
8.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Finance / M&A;
9.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Information Technology
10.0 Identifying Need & Managing Outside IP Consultants
11.0 Implementing Patent Quality Management™ Tools

1.0 Patent Quality Management™ in the Enterprise

1.0.1 CEO’s role in “top-down” deployment of the PQM process.
1.0.2 The Intellectual Capital Officer (ICO) as the chief IP executive.
1.0.3 PQM to create wealth and enhanced shareholder value.
1.0.4 Aggressive IP tactics, strategy and management.

2.0 PQM Management Team Development

2.0.1 Objectives and responsibilities of the corporate PQM team.
2.0.2 Appointment of senior executives as PQM team members.
2.0.3 Fostering “bottom-up” flow of innovation through the organization.
2.0.4 PQM performance monitoring and improvement systems.

3.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Human Resources

3.0.1 Policies and employment agreements to capture intellectual capital.
3.0.2 Employee recognition programs to promote innovation.
3.0.3 Patent Quality Management training systems.
3.0.4 Recruiting, screening and retaining prolific inventors.

4.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Manufacturing

4.0.1 Patentability of manufacturing / production systems and processes.
4.0.2 Migrating shop floor invention disclosures to the PQM Team.
4.0.3 Purchase orders, IP ownership, and vendor / supplier management.
4.0.4 Invention assignments provisions in collective bargaining agreements.

5.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Engineering / R&D

5.0.1 Reading patents to enhance State-of the-art awareness.
5.0.2 Invention disclosure & patent development workflow systems.
5.0.3 Records development and retention policies.
5.0.4 Reverse engineering for infringement, patentability, freedom to operate.
5.0.5 Transitioning R&D from Cost Center to Profit Center via licensing.

6.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Marketing & Sales

6.0.1 Linking competitive product strategy to patent strategy.
6.0.2 Patent-centric analysis of competitors’ R&D investment focus.
6.0.3 Industry new product and technology trending.
6.0.4 Managing the outside patent / invention submission process.

7.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Corporate Counsel

7.0.1 Developing corporate-wide tactical and strategic patent practices.
7.0.2 Introduction to emerging IT solutions for enterprise IP management.
7.0.3 Assessing competitors’ IP position before budgeting new R&D projects.
7.0.4 Press release, product introduction and technical disclosure review.

8.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Finance / M&A

8.0.1 Compliance with FAS 142 intangible asset accounting requirements.
8.0.2 Patent & portfolio valuation systems.
8.0.3 Establishing and managing departmental PQM/IP budgets.
8.0.4 Patent acquisition and licensing in/out alternatives.

9.0 Patent Quality Management™ for Information Technology

9.0.1 Supporting emerging patent & trademark e-filing solutions.
9.0.2 Maintaining the intellectual capital knowledge base.
9.0.3 Server / client patent information & data analysis solutions.
9.0.4 IT-wide defensive / offensive copyright and patent awareness.

10.0 Identifying Need & Managing Outside IP Consultants

10.0.1 Augmenting internal expertise with outside experts.
10.0.2 Managing budgets and scope of work of IP consultants.
10.0.3 Identifying appropriate expertise in support of a PQM program.
10.0.4 Need-to-know information disclosure policies.

11.0 Implementing Patent Quality Management™ Tools

11.0.1 Deploying a corporate-wide Intellectual Property Information Portal.
11.0.2 Web-distributed software for patent search and analysis.
11.0.3 Assessing collaboration, work flow, docketing and KM software.
11.0.4 Administering intranet, extranet, Internet and web-based solutions.

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