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Efficient IDS Process: Cutting RCE Costs and Enhancing Efficiency

21 Sep, 2023 3 min

Situation

A client asked us to support in managing their IDS tasks after realizing that they had been paying RCE almost 35% of their US patent applications. ​
The issue was that their paralegal team used an excel spreadsheet to manage references and prepare the IDS manually. This was leading to missed citations during IDS filing​.

Problem

Based on the client’s requirements, our team first devised a strategy on how to manage IDS effectively and reduce the IP workload. Thereafter, the team used an IDS management tool including the relevant foreign patent and non-patent references​

Results

In addition to an efficiency gain of 70%, this also helped the client keep track of the IDS filing deadlines and save RCE filings. The client expects a yearly saving of $10K on RCE costs​.

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