1. How Can I Save Money? Hopes Creek Consulting

2. Saving Money • This presentation provides guidelines that will help you save your budget • This is a high-level treatment of the subject • Hopes Creek can help you find more specific ways to save money in your organization

3. Step One: Stop Spending! • Sounds easy, but is not • Stop paying maintenance on patents you don’t need • Use a ranking scheme • Decide on a budget • Stop maintenance of those below the cutoff • File fewer provisional patent applications • Make the decision to drop sooner • Use a formal assessment procedure

4. Step Two: Don’t Hire • Yes, we’re all overworked • But, there is a better way than hiring • Use a management process for your workload • Prioritize with clarity • Prioritize with consistency • Use outsourcing for short-term needs

5. Step Three: Outsource • Intellectual Property • Technology Assessments • Patent Portfolio Analysis • Marketing Information Creation • Negotiations • Business • Business Plans • Marketing • Negotiations

6. Finding Help • You just did: Hopes Creek can help • Technology Assessment • Prioritization of Work • Management Strategies • Marketing and Negotiations • We have connections • If we can’t help, perhaps we know of someone who can • Contact us: info@HopesCreekConsulting.com