International Business Machines Corporation

Howard J Walter, Jr

John Anthony Bracchitta

Bernadette Ann Pierson

Henry Charles Rickers

Patricia McGuiness Marmillion

Patricia McGuinness Marmillion

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.

Growing community of inventors

Shelburne, VT, United States of America

Howard J Walter, Jr