Case Study: Multinational Semiconductor Company reduces art-based RCEs and saves over $800k annually with MaxVal Max-IDS

Semiconductor Giant Streamlines IDS Filings with Max-IDS and Saves Over $800k Annually

Multinational Semiconductor Company, a global semiconductor business with 100,000+ employees, needed a way to manage complex IDS generation across a large patent portfolio. Its Excel-based reference process made it hard to track big families, increased the risk of missing citations, and led to repeated incorrect citations and costly requests for continued examination.

MaxVal provided Max-IDS™ with a customized database and imported references from Espace and INPADOC. The system’s comparison chart and searchable database helped the company manage cross-citations and reduce missing references, cutting art-based RCEs filed after NOA from 45% in 2013 to 27% in 2015 and saving about $800,000 in RCE filing fees in 2014.