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Many companies are managing large volumes of international IP work with
Tracker's unique workflows and law firm connections. The system includes pre-configured
templates for tracking all of the information, events, and documents
associated with trademark filings, patent prosecutions, and domain
registrations.
Specialized Features for Intellectual Property
Tracker provides a number of tools designed specifically with IP
management in mind:
- Phase-based Patent Budgets
Gather spending estimates by phases in the lifecycle of a
patent prosecution (e.g. Preparation, Waiting Period for Office
Actions, Prosecution, etc.),
and then receive invoice audit alerts if spending exceeds the budget
amount.
- Deadlines, Renewals, and Filing Calendar
Rather than re-keying filing dates and
deadlines provided by your firm, with Serengeti, you can allow your outside counsel to
maintain a calendar for you in the system. You can then view a
master calendar covering all filings, receive email reminders, and
sync dates with Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes.
- Fixed-fee Billing Arrangements
Input
the fixed-fee amount that you have negotiate for a project and then
let Tracker notify you if spending exceeds that amount. A one-click
invoice audit allows you to reduce your approved amount to the
agreed upon fixed-fee.
- Filing Outcomes, Duration, and Cost
Tracker provides specialized fields for tracking
filing status and outcome. It also benchmarks duration, cost, and
complexity of each filing which feed IP trending and analysis
reports (e.g. average duration and cost of patent prosecution by
region).
- Consolidated Billing Matters
Law departments with large numbers
of IP matters spend significant time inputting and maintaining data
internally. To alleviate this burden, Serengeti allows companies to create Consolidated Billing Matters
and require their law firms to manage this data for them.
For example, if Acme Inc. created a Consolidated Billing Matter for their
worldwide ACME trademark, firms would create sub-matters for each country
filing, to which they would post their invoices. This process reduces the
administrative burden on companies while maintaining the same vital matter and
spending information in the system.
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QUICK FACTSSpecialized Features
• Bulk billing to one matter
• Track spend to fixed fee
• Budget by patent phase
• Clone existing matters
• Group multiple matters
• Bulk update matter
info
• Maintain filing calendar |
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