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Tradespace for Portfolio Management
Build a portfolio that drives value for the business
Actively manage your portfolio to reduce annuity costs and find white space
Overview
Don’t just pay the bills on time. Proactively decide which patents to maintain and which to prune
Tradespace automatically tracks global maintenance deadlines and helps you make business-driven maintenance decisions. Our powerful reporting and visualizations help you show leadership how these decisions support your key products and provide competitive differentiation.
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Tradespace Manage helps provide unprecedented decision support so you can take control of your annuity payments
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“Managing our complex IP lifecycle through Tradespace allows me to keep up with the innovation demand without significant overhead or outside counsel costs. This has led to better quality patents for less money, a win-win all around.”
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The best portfolios are rooted in R&D "treasures" and balance protection with investment as revenue grows. Discover the 5 steps to making this happen in our guide to creating a strategic IP plan.
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Overinflated portfolios are complex, unwieldy, and risky from a cost, company, and job perspective
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FAQs
What does the Portfolio Management & Strategy use case focus on?
This use case for Tradespace is about actively managing your IP portfolio to align with business value: tracking global annuity deadlines, reducing unnecessary spend, pruning low-value assets, identifying white-space opportunities, and generating portfolio intelligence that supports strategic decisions.
How can organizations reduce annuity and maintenance costs with this solution?
By automating global annuity tracking, modeling maintenance vs. business value, surfacing non-core assets, and enabling business-driven decisions, teams can reduce costs, eliminate deadweight assets, and reallocate resources to higher-impact innovations.
Does this solution provide analytics and visualisations for portfolio health?
Yes. The platform offers reporting and interactive visualisations that highlight portfolio composition, cost curves, competitive positioning, filing rationale, product-road-map alignment, and value vs. cost for each asset and the portfolio as a whole.
How does this use case help ensure IP decisions are aligned with business strategy rather than just legal compliance?
The system embeds business context (such as product alignment, innovation rationale, and market data) into every asset. This allows IP teams to make maintenance, enforcement or pruning decisions based on strategic value rather than maintaining every asset.
Which roles and departments benefit the most from applying this Portfolio Management & Strategy capability?
IP operations teams, patent portfolio managers, general counsel, tech-transfer offices, corporate-development groups, and innovation centers in corporations or universities all benefit from deeper insight into cost, asset performance, strategy alignment and monetization readiness.
How quickly can organisations begin to see benefit from implementing this solution?
While timelines vary, many teams begin to see improved visibility, cost savings, and better decision-making within the first few months thanks to automated integrations, dashboards and actionable insights.
Does this use case support global and multi-jurisdictional portfolios?
Yes. Tradespace’s solution enables tracking and analysis of assets across jurisdictions, modelling filings and maintenance in different markets, and aligning international portfolios with regional business strategy and cost constraints.
How does Tradespace’s portfolio management system help in identifying whitespace or new opportunity zones?
By comparing your portfolio data, disclosures, product roadmap, market trends and competitor filings, Tradespace surfaces gaps — technologies you aren’t protecting, or markets you aren’t targeting — so you can invest in new innovation or redirect resources effectively.
Is this capability part of the broader IP lifecycle framework?
Yes. Portfolio Management & Strategy sits as the Manage stage of the broader lifecycle, following invention capture and evaluation (Create) and drafting, filing, and prosecution (Protect), and preceding monetization/licensing (Commercialize).
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