Patents Renewals

On average, CPA Global makes 1.4 million renewal payments per year, maintaining almost one third of all patents globally. With more than 40 years of experience and an ongoing investment in the latest technological infrastructure supporting our patent payment service, CPA Global continues to bring an innovative approach to IP portfolio management.

We offer two distinct patent renewal service types:

Automatic Accounts: Clients receive one renewal notice. If CPA Global does not receive any negative instructions for those cases, we will then issue an invoice and proceed with payment.

Instruct Accounts: CPA Global will send clients up to four renewal notices in relation to a case, but we will not take any action until we receive specific instructions for a case.

Both service types provide the following key service components:

• Patent Annuity & Maintenance Payments - We will attend to all patent maintenance payments through our Foreign Agent network and we pay directly in jurisdictions where this is possible under local law
• Renewal Reminders – You have the option to receive quarterly or monthly patent renewal reminders in advance of upcoming renewal deadlines
• Data Verification – Automatic data verification in high risk jurisdictions.
• CPA Direct - Our IP Portfolio Management Platform, providing:
  • Secure, 24-hour online access to patent case information
  • Ability to build and customize patent data, financial analysis and budget reports
  • Access to critical patent data and renewal information
  • Ability to submit renewal and abandon instructions and view activity taken against a particular patent case
• 3rd Party e-billing integration –The ability to communicate and exchange billing data with many 3rd party billing systems
• Patent Safety Net- Ability for clients to reassess their abandonment decisions as US patents that are run through a detailed patent scoring process and score high are flagged so that no patent is abandoned in error or without the opportunity to monetize.