Fixed fee deals with U.S. law firms, foreign affiliates bring huge savings for BYU

摘要

An imaginative program to control patent prosecution costs by going to fixed fee arrangements with all of its U.S. law firms has enabled the BYU Technology Transfer Office to increase its number of patent applications by several hundred percent while holding the line on total yearly patent prosecution expenses. Buoyed by that success, the TTO has recently moved to do the same thing for foreign affiliate charges, a process that Dee Anderson, associate director, says required a significant amount of creativity.