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[Richard Forno]

United States Patent 7,630,915
Bracchitta ,   et al.
December 8, 2009
Intellectual property management method and apparatus

Abstract
An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating,  
developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes:  
determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property  
activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the  
activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for  
the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to  
each of the technical attributes and based on available resource  
capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from  
the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the  
intellectual property activity by determining the difference between  
the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical  
attribute.

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