Docketing
Unlocking the power of information within your docketing system will deliver more benefit to your organisation than the system that you chose.
All IP firms and Corporate IP divisions have to mange the complex process of their patent and trademark portfolios. There are a few systems on the market place that provide software, application or fully managed service that help manage this process. They are all capable of providing your attorneys and paralegals with an up to date status on a case or portfolio. They all track and report when action is due, and follow a lifecycle of a matter defined by a set of rules and provide reports to alert attorneys or staff of office actions / key filing dates and patent renewal fees.
These systems hold a huge amount of valuable information that can be put to good effect in managing a portfolio however, the difference is in how accessible this information is.
We con provide a number of services to help draw on better management information from your docketing system, including:
IMPROVING QUALITY OF DATA
The quality of information is strongly dependent on the quality of the para-legals or docketing staff that input the data. We can work with you’re your organisation to review current procedures, make improvements and document the Operational Procedures. Improvement in consistency and quality that comes from implementing good Quality Assurance checks.
DATA QUALITY CLEAN-UP
When organisations merge there are often economies of scale to benefit from and the most central one for operational benefit is consolidating disparate docketing systems. We can help with the integration of data. Cleaning up the data quality, applying rules to make the data consistent, conversion and reformatting before being imported into the central system.
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION REPORTING
We can help your organisation extract the right information from your docketing system and with out in-depth knowledge of reporting software, prepare custom reports in addition to intelligent and flexible Management Information Systems
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
Missing just one renewal date can lead to abandoning a patens and a professional indemnity claim. Risks cannot be taken with docketing or the availability of the underlying IT system. We can help your organisation to be prepared to recover from a disaster whether it be hardware failure or a virus attack to the server room being flooded.
To discuss your docketing requirements further, please contact us.