IP Knowledge Center >> Click here for more detail

IP Knowledge Center provides your organization with disciplined procedures, common forms, and comprehensive reports that enhances corporate understanding, increases visibility

is a ready-made Intellectual Property Asset Management (IPAM) Intranet Portal. A simply constructed organization of IPAM knowledge, including process and methods; standard forms and agreements; training documents; contacts; Q&A’s; strategy and tactics; terms and definitions; and links to other IPAM resources. Lighthouse™ can be a powerful vehicle in the development of a corporate IPAM competency center. It serves as the focal point for IPAM enabling consistency, discipline, and responsiveness for IPAM efforts and organization. Lighthouse can be the catalyst for your IPAM initiative or it can significantly advance your existing initiatives. It is an ine expensive tool that would take months to duplicate. It can be adapted or integrated to any company intranet and existing programs. Lighthouse is a solution that can advance your IPAM initiatives quickly and effectively. Lighthouse™ can be a very effective internal advocacy tool for both helping management and employees understand and value of Intellectual Property.

Reduce operational costs • Increase ROI from patent initiatives • Increase quality of invention disclosures • Focal Point for creditable IPAM information • Builds organizational competency • Assert a disciplined and consistent approach • Can act as a catalyst for IPAM imitative • Tested methodology and architecture already built • Can be installed and operating within weeks • Maximize IP Portfolio value

IP Best Practices Library  >> Click here for more detail

Compass is a comprehensive library of Intellectual Property Asset Management (IPAM) resources. It consists of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents. The IPAM subjects cover the total spectrum of activities. The organization of the documents is indexed and can be key word searched for easy retrieval and finding of pertinent information. Compass is probably the most comprehensive collection of knowledge regarding IPAM available. To some degree it is like getting a “Consultant in a Box”. Consultants would utilize many of the documents if your organization were to engage them to find solutions to IPAM issues. Compass is a cost effective way to immediately have access to best practice for a champion of the IPAM imitative or as a resources for the entire organization.  

IP Portfolio Manager >> Click here for more detail

IP Manager is a tool and methodology for building and effectively maintaining a portfolio of Intellectual Assets which can include Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Agreements. IP Manager organizes (Intellectual Assets) IA’s and their associated attributes to view the Portfolio  from a commercial perspective. Key attributes of IA’s are identified, documented, and organized so as to enable advanced analysis of portfolios for strategic decision-making. It also enables a disciplined approach for maintaining consistency and accuracy of IA information. IP Manager also has a powerful reporting capability that can reveal important strategic information as well as maintaining important administrative tasks. IP Manager is an inexpensive and straight forward solution for organizations that wish to better visualize, measure, manage, and leverage their Intellectual Assets.

Chart >> Click here for more detail

Chart is a methodology for visually mapping the “as is” and ”should be” process of  managing the Intellectual Property Asset Management (IPAM) process. The methodology is a facilitated process that identifies the relationships and inter-dependencies of the different functional activities. Legal, R&D, Licensing, Manufacturing, Accounting, IP Legal, Tax, Business, and any other functional stakeholders are represented. The process can be the entire IPAM process tracking asset activities from cradle to grave. A completed Map will identify gaps in the processes that should be modified or added in order to improve the process. The map will allow individual IPAM initiative to take place with the confidence that they will connect to and enable the larger IPAM process. The IPAM road map is a valuable investment to assure that strategic alignment of the IPAM effort and business strategy.