Webinar: The Hidden Cost of Your Outside Counsel Dependency

Your outside counsel is excellent at drafting and filing patents, but often they also operate as your docket manager and archive, which means they are your only window into your own portfolio. Every status check, board data pull, and inquiry depends on someone else’s system you cannot access. The costs mount for accessing your own information. There must be a better solution.

For most companies, outside counsel is the de facto operating system for the IP function. Money goes out, patents come back, and there’s no independent visibility, no data ownership, and no cost predictability. The law firm keeps the process history, the strategic context, and the data. You get a patent and an invoice.

This model was designed for a world where companies filed a handful of patents a year and had years to build out an IP function before they reached a critical mass that would justify controlling data and docket internally. That world is gone.

While still relying on outside counsel for drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications, some companies are taking back control of their information, which is full of strategic intelligence they should have had access to all along.

Join us on Thursday, April 28, at 12 PM ET for a conversation that will explore the information asymmetry that develops when outside counsel owns the systems and access to your data. Panelists will discuss what it costs you beyond invoices. Participants will leave with a practical framework for evaluating their current outside counsel dependency and a clearer picture of what it looks like to take back control of their own IP data, without disrupting the counsel relationship.