Patent portfolio pruning: to kill, or not to kill? That is the question…
How to contribute to feeding the innovation and growth motor of your company thanks to portfolio pruning
Doing better with less is becoming the new way of life for IP Teams, IP counsel or IP managers in innovative companies. The current situation makes it crucial to consider patent cost management as a way to relieve pressure.
Our eBook guides corporations through a global framework to think/rethink how to optimize pruning patent portfolio strategies.

- Introduction : Portfolio pruning, tuning or “cutting deadwood” campaign
- Literature review
Objective analysis : defined as a fully automatic evaluation of the strength of a patent
Subjective analysis : performed by an expert searcher, licensing officer or IP expert, using a manual and totally objective-oriented process - Questel’s methodology: portfolio pruning
Step 1: identification
Step 2 : Qualification
Step 3 : Scoring
Step 4 : Evaluation
- Conclusion
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