Patents by Inventor Henry Rickers

Henry Rickers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20060235719
    Abstract: An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to each of the technical attributes and based on available resource capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the intellectual property activity by determining the difference between the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Bracchitta, Patricia Marmillion, Bernadette Pierson, Henry Rickers, Howard Walter