SS IP Consulting

SS IP Consulting provides intellectual property operations consulting services to law firms and in-house legal departments. We help with everything related to the people, process, and technology that keeps an IP group ship-shape. More particularly, here is just some of what we're good at! * IP people: Organizational design, staffing, outside counsel management, attorney and staff hiring, IP law and IP operations training, working with service and tool providers, teaming outside the IP group (including with inventors, business leaders, and IT) * IP operations processes: Docketing, workflow and soft dates, portfolio intake and transfers out, billing (particularly fixed fee billing), lateral and acquired firm integration, working with foreign agents, substantive trademark/patent prosecution tasks, annuities * IP operations technology: IP management systems (IPMSs), docketing tools, AI patent drafting tools, patent prosecution tools and services, IP search platforms, systems integration, artificial intelligence (AI) implementation, robotic process automation (RPA)