Welcome to the Patent Preparation Quality Practices Benchmark Survey.
The purpose of the Patent Preparation Quality study is to capture the prevailing best practices for patent preparation used to achieve valid and enforceable utility patents.
The results will enable us to provide you with aggregated analysis of key factors, approaches, and performance.
Upon completion of the survey, you will be entitled to a free copy of the summary results, which will be sent to you once all responses are collected and analyzed.
Confidentiality
This is a blind survey and all responses will be kept strictly confidential and merged.
Anonymity Statement
To ensure your responses remain anonymous, reports prepared will not provide groupings that contain less than 6 participating companies.
Who should take this survey
This survey is open to corporate IP departments or others who have responsibility in this area. Someone knowledgeable about the company’s patent operation and practices should complete the survey. If you do not have the knowledge or access to this information, please forward this survey to the appropriate person in your organization.
Answering Questions
Our surveys are designed to be comprehensive and cover the most important factors related to the survey topic. Participants are not required to answer all the questions; but in order to get the most from the study we encourage you to complete as many questions as you are able.
If you are unable to answer a question, we prefer you skip it. The asterisk (*) next to a question indicates that it requires an answer.
Throughout the survey, actual numeric values and number ranges are requested. The numeric values will be used to provide you with detailed analysis, which includes ratios and performance correlations. Please provide current, 2016, or last fiscal period information.
An electronic version (PDF) is available for offline review. To obtain a copy, email your request to benchmark@ipperform.com.
Please Note: The survey tool remembers your last submitted page. If you must temporarily stop for any reason, when you return to the survey the system places you at the last completed page. We appreciate your participation. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Robert Williamson
ipPerformance Group
rwilliamson@ipperform.com
Office (630) 216-9673
Please Note: The survey tool remembers your last submitted page. If you must temporarily stop for any reason, when you return to the survey, the system places you at the last completed page. Comment fields are provided for you to add factors that we did not specify or perspectives that we should consider.