1. Hopes Creek Consulting
How Can I Save Money?
Hopes Creek Consulting

2. Saving Money
This presentation provides guidelines that will help you save your budget
This is a high-level treatment of the subject
Hopes Creek can help you find more specific ways to save money in your organization

3. Step One: Stop Spending!
Sounds easy, but is not
Stop paying maintenance on patents you don’t need
Use a ranking scheme
Decide on a budget
Stop maintenance of those below the cutoff
File fewer provisional patent applications
Make the decision to drop sooner
Use a formal assessment procedure

4. Step Two: Don’t Hire Yes, we’re all overworked
But, there is a better way than hiring
Use a management process for your workload
Prioritize with clarity
Prioritize with consistency
Use outsourcing for short-term needs

5. Step Three: Outsource Intellectual Property Business
Technology Assessments
Patent Portfolio Analysis
Marketing Information Creation
Negotiations
Business
Business Plans
Marketing

6. Finding Help You just did: Hopes Creek can help We have connections
Technology Assessment
Prioritization of Work
Management Strategies
Marketing and Negotiations
We have connections
If we can’t help, perhaps we know of someone who can
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