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1. Three from CPA: memotech, inprotech and foundationip
   see http://www.cpaglobal.com/software

   Comment by Sue Holloway — October 19, 2007 #

2. Anaqua’s Anaqua 5.
   Edital’s WorldMark Plus/Worldsuite
   GSI’s WinPat
   IPSS’ IPSSdotnet
   Patrix’s Patricia
   Thomson’s IP Manager (legacy MDC IP Master successor)
   Unycom’s IPMS
   Pro Delta Systems’ Progressor

   The list goes on. If you are selecting a docketing system, please give me a call +44 20 7736 0600

   Comment by Richard Lucas — October 22, 2007 #

3. I assume the request for IP PROSECUTION, but I’ll reply for IP LITIGATION in case anyone is interested.

   CompuLaw Vision - My old firm was looking into CompuLaw for patent litigation docketing. Different regions were modular options. Personally I was a little spectacle that the software could keep up with ALL the federal, local and judges rules. I left before software was purchased, if it ever was.

   Thanks to the Invent Blog and all others for sharing on this and other posts.

   Comment by MD — October 22, 2007 #

4. We recently purchased CPA and it is total garbage. You need a full time person maintaining it (which CPA admitted after we paid for the product). There are a lot of useful features, the problem is that none of them work very well (really). If you are thinking about purchasing, get a demo and start docketing a few cases over a few months. You will find that the “laws” that trigger reminders are not complete. The system came with 50+ US laws and we needed to add over 40. For example, there is no way to automatically trigger a reminder to rescind non-pub request. There are hardly any foreign laws to speak of. It is nice that you have the flexibility to make your own laws, but you should have a working product out of the box. It is also not very easy and sometimes impossible to create the laws the way you want them. For example, you can not have an event occurrence in one application trigger or disable a reminder in another application. We’ve had it in place for over 6 months now and we are totally frustrated. One good thing is that you can export reports in excel and then use excel to give you the output you want (using VBA).

   Comment by AP — October 25, 2007 #

5. By the way, can anyone recommend the products they are using? I may be in the market for a new product (again) soon. A poll would be helpful addition to this pub. Thanks.

   Comment by AP — October 25, 2007 #

6. Is there a good comparison of the various products anywhere? We have grown past IP LegalDoc’s capabilities and are seriously looking for a replacement.

   I would especially like to hear more about AP’s experience with CPA. Some here want to go with CPA since “all the big boys are using it”, but to me (former programmer) it looks and feels like some patent attorney’s hobby project that has grown too big for itself and has never been properly designed/engineered. (This opinion is based only on screeenshots, a webex demo, and 10 years of software development experience).

   Comment by Alec — October 25, 2007 #

7. Correction: The software I should have referred to above is the CPI (Computer Packages Inc.) Patent Management System. I have not yet looked closely at CPA’s products (Foundation IP et al.).

   Comment by Alec — October 26, 2007 #

8. You should check out a solution called Decipher by a company called Innovation Asset Group. I met a couple people who have looked at it recently and it sounds like a flexible solution.

   Comment by JC — October 27, 2007 #

9. Another good site for small shops is Xensis.com which has a product line up more reasonably suited to small businesses.

   Comment by DC — October 30, 2007 #

10. I echo the comments about FoundationIP above. What FoundationIP does really well is track documents submitted in IDSs across related applications. Otherwise, you almost need a degree in Oracle to get anything useful out of it. They want to get you up to Minnesota and force you to pay big $$$ for a training class to teach you how to use their clunky and nonintuitive interface, rather than just fix it. The more you use FoundationIP, the more you will realize that you can ask it the same question in 3 different ways and get 5 different answers.

    Has anyone successfully exported their docket out of FoundationIP into another docketing system?

    Comment by B — October 30, 2007 #

11. CPA will also cross-sell the crap out of you. I finally had to tell them to just stop calling. I don’t want their glossy magazine or their endless sales calls about their other CPA products. I just want FoundationIP to work.

    Comment by B — October 30, 2007 #

12. One IP Management product not on the list is the Dennemeyer DIAMS-Xe.

    Comment by Max Thomas — November 2, 2007 #

13. The other one you would want to add is Lecorpio, they are young but have the most flexible product in the market.

    Comment by Dasmond P — November 3, 2007 #

14. We checked out this tool a while back, but it seemed to have quite a few kinks. Is anyone using this product that can provide feedback regarding the stability and usability of the system?

    Comment by Anon — November 7, 2007 #

15. My comment above referred to the Dennemeyer DIAMS-Xe product.

    Comment by Anon — November 7, 2007 #

16. A complete list is here:

    http://emgill.blogspot.com/2007/09/ip-menu-intellectual-property-software.html

    Cheers,
    Erin-Michael

    Comment by Erin-Michael Gill — November 12, 2007 #

17. [...] follow up to my earlier post wherein I was starting to compile a list of IP docketing software…apparently the fine folks [...]

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