Case Studies

To maintain the company's image, brands and products and protect it from infringement and loss, Cardinal Health's Clinical & Medical Products Division needed to centralise and integrate its IP management activities, automate risky manual tasks and implement stable approaches that would enable them to reduce time to market.

With a demanding client requiring a large number of accelerated examination patent applications every month, Oppenheimer's attorneys were spending too much of their time on searches. It was clear that the firm had to find a better way to get things done. Taking advantage of CPA Global's research services, Oppenheimer was able to meet the demand, free its attorneys to concentrate on more productive activities - and reduce costs.

Recognising that back pain is the Number 1 cause of healthcare expenditures in the U.S., NuVasive launched in 1997 to address the unmet need for implants, instrumentation and procedures for the minimally disruptive surgical treatment of spine disorders. In 2001, the company launched its first products and achieved approximately $2.1 million in sales. Although a modest start in hindsight, NuVasive quickly emerged as an in-novator and by 2005 it received the "No. 1 Fastest Growing Company in...

Businesses today are looking for ways to operate more efficiently without the boundaries of the bricks-andmortar operation. Rising real estate costs associated with this traditional setup have motivated businesses to consider alternative approaches to reducing their overhead, thus making the virtual office concept more desirable. As technology advances by quantum leaps, organisations can connect easily and seamlessly with their employees, clients, suppliers and everyone in their chain of...