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University TTOs: How to Maintain a High-Quality Patent Portfolio Under Severe Budget Constraints

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What’s included

Access to the on-demand video with closed captions and presentation materials.

This program will explore techniques for pursuing quality patents for your portfolio while preserving scarce dollars and resources

$197.00

Techniques to be addressed include:

  1. Controlling the pipeline: new provisional, nonprovisional, PCT, national stage filings.
  2. Assessing patents: are they assets or liabilities?
  3. Establish decision-making guidelines based on prioritizing the portfolio.
  4. Guidelines for outside counsel and tightening legal expenses, renegotiating with or replacing providers.

Organizational change issues to be discussed include:

  1. Starting with the team: Cost management needs to be someone’s job.
  2. Data: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”.
  3. Evaluating Processes: decision-making methodologies and operational processes.
  4. Tools: analysis and reporting.
  5. Behavior change: Doing things differently, doing different things, and communicating expectations. It is okay to “miss the big fish” if the data doesn’t support chasing it in the first place.

COVID-19 has affected every facet of the tech transfer process. Temporary closure of many research labs, an influx of COVID-related innovations, remote work for staff, and painful budget cuts have left many TTOs struggling to keep up.

But by implementing key changes and employing new techniques, your TTO can stay within the confines of your new budget and still secure IP for its most valuable innovations. It won’t be easy. These techniques involve some organizational change involving people, data, processes, and tools — and a little behavior change too. But it can be done.

We’ve teamed up with Peter Gordon, a founding member of Patent GC, to present this highly practical webinar that will explore techniques for pursuing quality patents while preserving scarce dollars and resources.

During this strategy-packed session, Mr. Gordon will outline best practices for managing your portfolio and incorporating needed change to ensure your best IP assets get the attention they deserve, regardless of budget constraints. You’ll come away from this session with immediately useable strategies for success.

Program Leaders

Founding Member Patent GC

What’s included

Access to the on-demand video with closed captions and presentation materials.

This program will explore techniques for pursuing quality patents for your portfolio while preserving scarce dollars and resources

$197.00

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