GGI 2004 Product Development Metrics Survey Section D : North American Practices in IP Management Process

The 2004 Product Development Metrics Survey focused on product selection, intellectual property (IP) management, and metrics. This report includes details on the demographics of the survey population and the results from Section D: Intellectual Property (IP) Management Process. This section investigated the process companies use to make decisions about the management of their IP. The survey report presents results regarding the number of steps in their IP decision process as well as the number of people who participate at each decision point. Also presented is the frequency of use of different processes to manage IP: registering IP, licensing IP from others, licensing IP out to others, and selling IP to others, as well as the interrelationships between the product selection process and the IP management process. Also detailed are the format and organizational structure for the IP management process.Goldense, Bradford L. is the author of 'GGI 2004 Product Development Metrics Survey Section D : North American Practices in IP Management Process', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932468526 and ISBN 1932468528.