GUIDE

What to Do When R&D Outruns IP  

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Your engineers are producing patentable work faster than your IP function can capture it, and the queue grows longer every quarter. The cause is not effort or discipline. It is a function built for a slower rate of invention, kept locked in reaction by the cost of traditional filing, so that every dollar and every hour go to drafting applications on the inventions already in front of you. The work that builds lasting value, surfacing inventions nobody disclosed and deciding where the portfolio needs depth, is the work hat never gets scheduled.

This guide gives you a way to find where your pipeline is leaking. It traces the path from invention to filed patent through three stages, shows you the one number that measures each, and pairs every leak with the move that closes it, including the change in filing economics that finally lets volume keep pace with how fast your engineers invent.

Inside the guide you'll learn:
  • Customer-Centric IP Starts With People

    Why a skilled team running a sound process still falls further behind every
    quarter, and why the most expensive loss is the invention you never see

  • Rethink Processes with Stakeholders in Mind

    How to measure capture: whether inventions are reaching you at all, by comparing disclosure growth against R&D growth

  • Tech Should Serve Everyone, Not Just Legal

    How to measure throughput: how long a disclosure sits between arriving and getting a decision, and what weeks instead of days tells you

  • Mission

    How to measure protection: why conversion rate can mislead, and the real test of whether your filing decisions are deliberate or made for you by the budget

  • Mission

    What closes each leak, from lightweight capture habits to AI-assisted triage to the filing economics that free up budget and attorney time at once

Read the guide to find your widest gap while every fix is still cheap, rather than when a funding round is six weeks out and the loss is already permanent.