The project

Restructuring IP roles to boost efficiency and achieve time and cost savings

Dennemeyer supported a leading international producer of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in developing time- and cost-saving measures in several areas of their current Intellectual Property (IP) practice.

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The context

Initial challenges

  • Portfolio management - Administrating and optimizing a large global IP portfolio across multiple business units and external service providers.

  • Streamlining operations - Achieving time savings and efficiency improvements in key IP processes while ensuring effective control over costs.

  • Strategic organization - Developing a clear, structured classification of the IP portfolio to enhance decision-making and business unit alignment.

What the consumer goods producer needed

The client is a multinational corporation in the FMCG sector, holding a large global portfolio of IP rights.

As a market leader, the client manages IP functions across different business units with support from external IP service providers.

The vice president and head of IP requested Dennemeyer Consulting's input to optimize current IP practices, focusing on classifying the portfolio an benchmarking patent drafting and filing costs.


Our approach

A Future-Proof IP Department Driving Innovation

  • Demo and requirement analysis - Dennemeyer aligned expectations and deliverables by forming a project team of consultants and the client's experts, ensuring beneficial outcomes.

  • Configuration, delivery and data migration - Dennemeyer conducted a comprehensive review, benchmarking and analysis of patent drafting and filing efforts, costs and organizational setup, identifying cost-saving opportunities and improvement potential.

  • Training and go-live - Finally, Dennemeyer mapped core processes and developed a task-role matrix, providing a foundation for restructuring, introducing new responsibilities and achieving desired time savings.

The outcome for the consumer goods producer

  • Cost-effective patent strategies: Developed an alternative approach for patent drafting and filing to utilize cost-saving potentials and achieve an improved cost-quality ratio​.

  • Budgeting optimization: Identified quick wins for cost reductions when collaborating with external IP service providers.

  • Role optimization: The reorganization of teams and introduction of new roles led to increased process efficiency, making better use of internal resources while lowering overall expenditure​.

  • Quality-preserving savings: Dennemeyer's recommended measures led to time- and cost-savings without reducing the quality of the IP practice.

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