For many clients, Avancept's "Pennysaver" Budgeting Service is more than a small misnomer.  For these
clients, our budgeting service could save them as much as several million dollars per year in unnecessary
and unneeded IP expenses.

Avancept’s IP Budgeting Services have been designed primarily to cut the waste and unnecessary
expenses out of our client’s IP budgets – but the service can also be used to align the client’s IP Asset
development programs to a specific budget number as well.  

We developed our IP Budgeting Services after recognizing how many IP Asset holders do not
understand the full financial implications of the decisions made about their IP Assets.  For example, many
companies do not understand the cumulative financial impact of patent annuity fees.  Other companies do
not well understand the financial implication of decisions made on their behalf by their IP counsel - while
other IP owners do not appreciate that their high-end outside IP counsel is essentially providing exactly
the same services in exactly the same manner as many more cost-conscious service providers.  Among
other things, our IP Budgeting Services reviews the decisions made by your external legal counsel and
strives to help clients find the right mix of legal talents.  We aim to eliminate the mystery behind IP and
allow our clients to control their key IP decisions.

As part of our IP Budgeting Services, we can also review your management and reporting framework to
determine if any of your policies have unnecessarily negative impacts on your IP budget.  We have found
for some clients that the very nature of their IP reporting structure and related policies adds unnecessary
costs to the IP budget.  All things being equal, every dollar unnecessarily spent represents a dollar that
could be more wisely spent on something else.

Avancept fully understands the costs associated with IP protection.  We can help you determine which
costs are needed, which costs are optional, and which costs represent pure waste.  Avancept will remove
all the mysteries behind your IP budget and its related expenses, and we will help you understand exactly
what IP Assets you are receiving for the money you are spending.  We strive to make your budgeting
process completely transparent.

We can provide our IP Budgeting Services in a variety of modes.  In one mode, we can conduct an audit
of your IP expenses and make budgeting and cost-cutting recommendations.  In another mode, you can
give Avancept your target IP budget, and we can tell you how to achieve that budget under a variety of
scenarios that will have the least impact on the overall quality and strength of your IP assets.

Avancept believes strongly in its IP Budgeting Services.  Consequently, we are pleased to offer this
service on the basis of a percentage of the costs you save, as well a traditional fee basis.  

Contact Avancept for further details.
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