Balancing Cost Savings and Quality
Chris Burger, an IP industry veteran and Trexo’s Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, took time out of his busy schedule to give us strategies and approaches that we think you’ll find helpful when confronted with the challenges of prioritization and balancing cost savings with quality. Phil: Chris, when we talk to corporate IP groups, a […]
Prokurio Partners with Swiftwater & Co.
Prokurio and Swiftwater & Co. are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership to revolutionize financial planning for IP teams! In today’s fast-paced business environment, IP teams are under constant pressure to maximize returns from their ever-tightening budgets. Financial planning can often be time-consuming, manual, and not very accurate. To address these challenges, Prokurio is developing a […]
IP Financial Friday: Gender Parity in Patents
WIPO: Innovation Gender Parity Gap Shrinking Slowly WIPO’s April World IP Day theme was “Women and IP: Accelerating Innovation and Creativity.” This week, they followed up with a detailed report showing that the percentage of women inventors is increasing, but gender parity is decades away and will vary substantially by region. Only 38 More Years […]
IP Financial Friday: Annuity and Renewal Contract
You have a Contract Problem, not a Currency Problem Over the last several years, there’s been a lot of discussion about currency costs in maintenance invoices. There’s no doubt that many annuity and renewal invoices include above-market costs for currency (which we can confirm based on analyzing many millions of dollars of Q3 invoices), but […]
June Currency Summary
Currency costs can be a substantial portion of international intellectual property service charges. We’re showcasing the Euro and Dollar this week to update you on these changing costs. Stay tuned for our June currency deep dives next week! June Currency Update: Increased Cost of EUR for USD-Invoiced Clients High: 1.09774 (June 22) Low: 1.0699 (June […]