More disclosures than budget.
Every year.
IP8 helps technology transfer offices decide which disclosures justify a filing, which patents justify continued maintenance, and which of them somebody in the market may already have a reason to license.
A small number of early decisions
carry the whole portfolio.
Disclosures arrive faster than filings can be funded. Most patents will never produce a licence. Maintenance costs compound on assets filed optimistically years ago and never revisited. And the researcher whose disclosure you decline is a colleague you'll see in the corridor next week.
So the office is judged on a handful of early decisions, made with limited information against a budget that doesn't flex, and the two most common failures are opposite: filing on too much and running out of money for the one that mattered, or declining something because there was no time to look properly.
Three decisions,
and what informs each one.
Fewer speculative filings. Fewer maintenance fees on assets nobody will license. More conversations that start with evidence.
Declining a disclosure is a conversation,
not an email.
Every technology transfer decision has a researcher on the other side of it, and some of them will disagree.
Bring the next patent decision to IP8.
Triage disclosures against global prior art, rationalize maintenance budgets, and uncover active commercial licensees with citation-backed evidence.
