The role of patent organization for the successful implementation of patent strategy

With the purpose of verifying the existence of different profiles of firms based on the level of sophistication of their PM core processes, and testing the impact of the interplay between PM supporting dimensions, namely patent strategy and organization for patenting, on the level of sophistication of PM core processes, we collected data from 82 patent management professionals. This data is analyzed with factor analysis, cluster analysis, and regression analysis. The results show that patent strategy positively and significantly impacts patent management sophistication, and that the patent organization positively moderates this relationship.