ip cost forecasting
Make confident IP cost decisions
Forecast global IP costs for individual filings and entire portfolios, compare strategies, and plan spend with greater precision across jurisdictions, routes, and stages.

See the budget impact before you commit
Evaluate filing choices, model projected spend, and support each decision with a clearer view of cost across matters, markets, and the broader portfolio.
.png?width=2700&height=1900&name=media%20(57).png)
Plan spend with more precision
Build forecasts that help you allocate budget, test options, and move faster with numbers you can stand behind.
- Estimate costs across 150+ countries, routes, and IP types.
- Compare filing scenarios before making budget commitments.
- Forecast spend across all or part of the portfolio.
- Create clear outputs for approvals, clients, and stakeholders.
- Reduce manual effort and speed up planning decisions.
.png?width=2700&height=1900&name=media%20(58).png)
What you can do with IP cost forecasting
Evaluate filing options, project portfolio spend, and make decisions with a clearer view of cost, timing, and trade-offs.
-1.png)
Forecast global filing costs
Estimate patents, trademarks, designs, and utility models across jurisdictions, stages, and filing routes.
Model portfolio spend
Project costs across business units, technologies, geographies, or selected parts of the portfolio.
Compare scenarios
Assess filing strategies, growth plans, pruning options, and acquisitions before you commit budget.
Generate clear reports
Create stakeholder-ready outputs that support approvals, client conversations, and internal alignment.
Reflect real cost inputs
Incorporate vendor pricing, local fees, translation costs, and currency assumptions into each forecast.
FAQ & Support
Frequently asked questions
Where does the information in Anaqua’s database come from?
Our experts continuously research and update the database with associate fee schedules, official government fee schedules, translation costs, and real-time currency exchange rates from each available country.
What are the cost estimates based on?
The estimates are based on fee schedules supplied by at least five independent associates in each available country. We typically use the 75th percentile of the values, which means that estimates tend to be on the high side of the average.
What are some of the fees and details you can see and configure?
Can law firms use this for client quotes?
Yes. Law firms can generate faster, more consistent client-ready quotes and reports while reducing manual effort.
Can I use my own cost assumptions?
Can you convert the estimates to different currencies?
Yes, estimates can be converted to most currencies of the world by specifying the desired currency.
Can this tool be used to help make portfolio level pruning and early abandonment decisions?
Yes. The product contains built-in reports for the purpose of suggesting cost-savings opportunities as well as an Early Abandonment feature that allows users to test out varying scenarios/cost impacts prior to making commitments.
When I estimate the costs for maintaining my existing portfolio, can it account for unfiled international cases?
Yes. The product has built-in features that dynamically generate and project cost of unfiled international cases, based on configurable rules.
-
Case StudyAug 18, 2021
Five Minutes with Joshua Gibbs, DLA Piper
With more than two decades of intellectual property experience, Joshua Gibbs, National Intellectual Property Manager at DLA Piper, knows more than a thing or two about IP budgeting. Here, he shares the law firm perspective on the key challenge of estimating and budgeting IP costs for clients and explains how DLA Piper tackles this with help from Anaqua's Global IP Estimator™ software.
If you don't have tools like the Global IP Estimator or PATTSY WAVE for annuities, then you're stuck with going to foreign websites and looking up the costs for every single case. This process can be time consuming and brings with it a heightened risk of inaccuracy without a software like Global IP Estimator.
-
Data SheetApr 15, 2021
Data Sheet: Global IP Estimator
Global IP Estimator lets you take your Intellectual Property cost estimation to a whole new level, boosting your confidence and taking the guesswork out of your assessment.
IP practitioners across the global rely on the Global IP Estimator to generate immediate, worldwide future cost estimates. Included is a trademark cost estimator, a patent cost estimator, a design cost estimator and a utility model cost estimator.
-
Data SheetFeb 21, 2024
Global IP Estimator - Portfolio
Our robust, global IP database meticulously maintained by our staff of experts, coupled with our innovative software and your docketing data, allows you to confidently achieve accurate and immediate future-cost estimates for the life of your IP portfolio.
Accurately predict and analyze current and future worldwide costs for prosecuting and maintaining a patent and trademark portfolio by importing your docketing data with this unique, robust tool. Read more about Portfolio Estimator in our attached data sheet.
Contact Us