Best practices in patent portfolio maintenance are often handed down or identified based on practical reasons such as budget limitation. But is this the right way to decide what to keep and cut? What about your competitors and their activity?

While the data we’re using is general in nature, the same type of analysis can be used to examine behavior within a certain industry or even for a particular competitor, provided you extract more specific data sets. Join Thom Kobayashi with CPA Global as he takes you through some best practices in patent portfolio maintenance.

In this session, you will:

• See concrete examples of how you can use data to educate yourself about what other companies are doing behind the scenes
• Obtain a fresh look at how correlated big data can help you understand current challenges
• Learn how larger companies compare with smaller ones in terms of maintaining their patent portfolios
• Run your own analysis to see how you align with your industry.