FoundationIP
Cloud based IP practice management for high-performing law firms of all sizes
Elevate your firm’s IP practice management
FoundationIP, the first cloud-based IP Management software in the market, is a leading solution for law firms seeking a competitive edge. This powerful and flexible software improves efficiency at every step, so you can grow your firm with confidence.
Keep pace with growing demands
Automate time-consuming manual tasks, freeing staff to focus on high-value work. Grow your firm with a flexible solution that scales easily.
Enhance client value and retention
Provide actionable insights for your clients. Integrate Clarivate IP data and deliver more value, with less administrative effort.
Streamline your firm’s IP operations
Manage patents, trademarks, copyrights and more all in one place. Easily configure FoundationIP based on client, attorney, office or team.
Create a foundation for hyper-efficient IP management
Reduce risk with industry-leading data
Act confidently with access to Clarivate IP data. Receive automatic law updates and recalculations 3x a year, covering 300+ jurisdictions.
Position the firm as a strategic partner
Uncover actionable insights. Increase client value, generate forms, and measure firm KPIs with powerful dashboards and reporting.
Enable a better client experience
Maximize efficiency with advanced automation and integrated services. Seamlessly collaborate with clients, colleagues, and agents worldwide.
Driving value and efficiency in your IP practice
Advanced task management
Prevent missed deadlines with advanced task management tools like one-click docketing, task dashboards and reports, and email reminders.
Reduce risk with clean, reliable data
Receive accurate data for patents, designs, and trademarks. Activate and verify data in minutes. Verify and update client data in bulk.
Harness the power of your firm’s data
Powerful report builder allows you to create and schedule complex reports by role. Create custom charts and graphs and share key analytics.
Automate repetitive manual tasks
Automatically track priority lineage, terminal disclaimers, and visualize relationships with the family tree view.
Enable a better client experience
Drive client value with built-in tools. Provide high level insights to customers using PatentScout’s searching and analytical capabilities.
Connect your IP ecosystem
Seamlessly integrate with Clarivate solutions and your firm’s internal systems. Integrate Innography to analyze your client’s portfolio.
Easily manage patent renewals
Process patent renewals payment decisions for clients, automatically close and launch renewal dates, and more.
Speak to our team
Talk to us about your IP management challenges.
What's new
Seamlessly connect with your agent network to save time, reduce risk and improve coordination for international filing and prosecution. Read more about the Clarivate IP Collaboration Hub here.
Transform productivity
Save valuable time
Reduce business risk
Send multiple agent instructions at once from a single collaboration portal fully integrated with FoundationIP.
Dramatically reduce time spent communicating with agents. Check the status of agent activity in seconds.
Eliminate human errors or missing documents when sending instructions. Avoid mistakes that could lead to loss of your IP rights.
Resources


Choosing the right IP software provider: Key considerations beyond the technology
You’ve selected an IP management system (IPMS) that surpasses your current provider, but you’re uncertain about the migration process. While finding the best IPMS for your requirements is a crucial…


Adapting to client needs through effective IP management workflows
The ability to adapt and cater to client needs is a key differentiator for law firms in today’s rapidly evolving and competitive landscape. This webinar delves into the potential that can be hidden within your Intellectual Property (IP) management software to unlock client success through tailored workflows. In this on-demand webinar recording, we explore how...


Investing in innovative IP legal strategies during challenging economic times
With ongoing inflation, projects being deferred and budget tightening, how can IP law firms and in-house legal teams invest and innovate now to support growth while watching the bottom line? Hear from industry experts as they discuss how legal teams can mitigate risk and drive successful outcomes by making proactive changes now instead of playing...
What our customers think
With FoundationIP and the Clarivate team, I can say with a high level of confidence we are able to give clients 100% of what they want.
Ed Guntin President and Managing Partner, Guntin & Gust
FoundationIP is the cornerstone of our firm’s business development strategy. It is supporting the firm’s goal to empower our clients to wholly manage their portfolios seamlessly in one central IP system through Wagner Blecher.
John Wagner Partner, Wagner Blecher LLP
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Learn more about FoundationIP
Read commonly asked questions and answers.
FoundationIP provides one-click docketing from USPTO Private PAIR, docket directly from an e-mail, and more. It also allows you to create internal tasks, automatically launch tasks in related families, leverage conditional logic, and more. Plus, you can search for assigned tasks, view tasks on dashboard, automate task reports, and receive email reminders.
With FoundationIP, you get access to out of the box forms and reports include 150+ managed USPTO forms and over 100 system reports. Plus, you can create custom charts and graphs to share key analytics with staff and clients.
FoundationIP lets your staff:
- Automate reports, email reminders, task assignments, and field updates.
- Automatically track priority lineage, terminal disclaimers, and visualize relationships with the family tree view.
- Import hundreds of references in minutes, automatically flow to related matters, and generate forms with end-to-end IDS Management.
- Receive automatic law updates and recalculations 3x a year, covering over 300 jurisdictions.
- Automate storage and management of IP documents and document processes.
Yes, you can enable direct client access to information, reducing burden on attorneys and staff.