Patent strategy and IP asset management for enterprises

This programme focuses on the enterprise operating model for identifying inventions, making investment decisions, and governing IP assets across functions.

It clarifies the policies, roles, budgets, approval flows, and management information needed to execute strategy consistently.

Who this is for

• Executive and functional leaders

• R&D, innovation, and product managers

• IP, legal, finance, and strategy teams

Core content

• Designing patent-governance policies and roles

• Organizing disclosure, assessment, approval, and monitoring workflows

• Allocating budgets by value, risk, and strategic fit

• Connecting the portfolio with exploitation, licensing, collaboration, and stop decisions

• Outline an enterprise patent-governance operating model

• Define RACI for major decisions

• Design portfolio-review cadences and information requirements

• Recommend pipeline and resource-allocation improvements