Faced with increasing pressure to build solid intellectual property (IP) portfolios that are adequately protected, enforced and commercialized, corporate legal/IP departments are having to provide greater support to the business—but, in many cases, with the same or fewer resources. The growing demand for IP to be at the center of commercial strategy, together with a squeeze on resources and budgets, has resulted in many in-house teams looking for alternative ways to organize and manage their IP work.
One alternative, which has increased significantly over the past 10 years, is IP outsourcing. The main principle behind such outsourcing is the ability to disaggregate the administrative and paralegal support tasks that are best performed by efficient, skilled, technology enabled service organizations, from the work of corporate IP teams.
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