Maintenance Fee Pruning

Eliminate Waste. Invest in High-Value Patents.

Juristat’s Maintenance Fee dashboard helps you identify avoidable fees tied to lower-value patents, so you can reduce spend and focus resources on the assets that matter most.

Maintenance Fee Pruning

Eliminate Waste. Invest in High-Value Patents.

Juristat’s Maintenance Fee dashboard helps you identify avoidable fees tied to lower-value patents, so you can reduce spend and focus resources on the assets that matter most.

Stop paying for dead weight

Audit your portfolio in seconds

Juristat brings clarity to maintenance fee decisions. By combining patent value scoring with upcoming fee schedules, the dashboard highlights which assets are worth keeping and which may be pruned. The result is a leaner, more defensible portfolio and a budget that goes further. 

Maintenance fees add up quickly, and without clear visibility, organizations may continue paying for patents that no longer align with revenue, product strategy, or competitive advantage. This can result in unnecessary spend, larger-than-needed portfolios, and missed opportunities to reallocate resources.

From maintenance fees to strategic decisions

Juristat’s dashboard highlights which fees are due, their cost, and the patents that may not be worth keeping. With filters for due dates and patent value scores, your team gains clear visibility into avoidable fees and the insight to make confident, cost-effective portfolio decisions.

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Transform maintenance fee payments into strategic, cost-effective decisions

Control IP budget & reduce costs

Identify inefficiencies, spot cost-saving opportunities, and allocate resources more effectively across your portfolio.

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Model prosecution and maintenance trajectories across families and tech areas. Surface outliers and prune with confidence.

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Frequently asked questions

Juristat’s Maintenance Fee dashboard helps you reduce costs, streamline your portfolio, and demonstrate the strategic value of every patent you maintain.

How does Juristat decide which fees are avoidable?

You set a minimum patent value score. Patents below that threshold are flagged as “Avoidable,” while those above it are marked “Maintain.”

What goes into the patent value score?

Juristat calculates the score using citations (applicant, examiner, and third-party) relative to the patent’s age, giving you an objective measure of impact.

Can I filter upcoming fees by date range?

Yes. You can select a custom due date range, and Juristat will show you total fees due and avoidable fees for that period.

Is this dashboard for firms, corporations, or both?

Both. In-house teams use it to control budgets and optimize portfolios, while firms use it to provide proactive, strategic advice to clients.

What data powers Juristat?

Juristat Analytics is powered by our exclusive industry-leading database, pulling up-to-date insights from across more than 10 million pending, abandoned, and granted applications, covering firms, assignees, examiners, art units, and more.

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The right analytics can help in-house teams save money and firms optimize their budgets. See how to use Juristat to determine which superfluous applications and actions result in unnecessary spending and keep the ongoing cost of issued patents low.

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