More in-house counsel are focusing on the quality of their patent programs, a new survey from IP management and analytics software company Lecorpio says.

The second annual Patent Program Benchmark Survey found that 42 percent of respondents, who were mostly in-house IP lawyers, track quality as a key performance indicator of how their in-house patent processes are functioning, a 12 percent increase from last year’s survey. Sixty-three percent measure performance by the quantity of patents submitted, and 10 percent measure performance by efficiency, or how quickly a patent goes from invention to filing to issuance.

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