# FoundationIP Reviews **Vendor:** Clarivate **Category:** [Intellectual Property Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/intellectual-property-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 105 ## About FoundationIP FoundationIP from Clarivate is a leading IP lifecycle management solution for law firms seeking a competitive edge. This powerful and flexible cloud-based solution improves your efficiency at every step in the IP lifecycle, so you can grow your firm with confidence. Reduce risk with industry-leading Clarivate IP data. Uncover actionable insights that position you as a strategic partner. Maximize your team’s efficiency with advanced automation and integrated services. Seamlessly collaborate with clients, colleagues, and agents worldwide. Modernize your IP practice management with FoundationIP. ## FoundationIP Reviews ### 1. Best IP software I've worked with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa E. | Sr. Paralegal, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** How easy it is to docket something -- even if you don't know what it is! **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** There is A LOT of clicking to do in order to get to certain places. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** IDSs are so easy now! ### 2. FIP Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** FIP does the leg work as long as I know what template to use when generating activities. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I dislike template searching if the activities code isn't readily known, as well as creating reports from scratch. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed and accuracy ### 3. Foundation IP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** This software makes it very easy to keep track of your IP dockets. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** It is not as user-friendly as I believe it could be. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is an easy way to keep track of IP deadlines. This is one of three ways we keep track of these. It would be great if we could link it with the CPA Global Direct and Workbench softwares so that you are not going in and out of different software. ### 4. R&D engineer focused on NPD **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** interface is easy and intuitive, I like how the website walks you through the process of how to submit content. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** too many steps and clicks between each process steps **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** global system to document with peers IP submissions ### 5. Really help my Company work and we like so much. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Its convenient, we don't need to worry about download form PAIR everyday, it will automatically come in FIP, and we can just docket. Have a lot features, like sending reminder emails ,run different reports. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I hope the customs service can do better or faster, sometime I waiting for an solution too long. And FIP sometime has some error and give us the wrong data. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** This is really good one if you thinking change. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** IP service. Its really convenient and easy to use. And FIP has a lot feature which helps a lot **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thanks for your review. We will share your feedback with the support team. ### 6. Ok, but could do better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Email reminders relating to tasks due, reminders appear automatically when dates entered. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Outdated interface, not user friendly. No ability to change date format to non US i.e. day/month/year. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping on top of reminders for tasks due ### 7. Mixed feelings **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Web access and cloud backup are great and convenient. I like the IDS tracking module as well--it has streamlined our processes. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Many features are difficult to actually use. We've had difficulty implementing automatic reminder emails in a useful way, PAIR scrape isn't quite what it was explained to be, and new features are slow to come. Integration with the annuity payment system is not great. Searching internally isn't very flexible--terms and search format are pretty rigid. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Detailed implementation plans, care to double-docket during switchover process. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated report and docket generation; client docket access; web-based access. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thanks very much for your thoughtful feedback. We will share this with our development team. ### 8. Database Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** organized, responsive, experienced team who made the process very easy **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I didn't dislike anything. the service was very smooth and easy. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** organizing a large portfolio of patents from all over the world ### 9. Must Have for Professionals **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The report functions are a great tool for showing clients **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** It does not connect with IP Australia, would be great to have it linked **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to manage portfolios online is great ### 10. Patent and trademark prosecution attorney **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The reminders are helpful, and timely. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I think it may be the way the system is implemented on our end, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information provided regarding the marks at issue - i.e., the serial no., atty docket no., etc. In addition, it would be helpful for the daily reminders to be somehow consolidated instead of numerous emails per day. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trademark docketing reminders. ### 11. The Microsoft of Docketing **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** FIP has been around forever and is tried and true **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The FIP UI has not been modernized in forever and it is as clunky as web pages of the 1990s. In particular, the ability to easily generate reports sucks. Also, how to define or modify rules is opaque. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Consider something else. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use FIP for docketing. It tracks dates more reliably than Microsoft Excel. **Official Response from Amanda Brown:** > Thanks for your feedback. We are working to improve our reporting capabilities but we're glad to know FoundationIP is reliable for your docketing needs. ### 12. Foundation IP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Very easy to navigate through the system **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The new update - when you scroll through the references tab, you can only see a limited amount **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Docketing! ### 13. Its very easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The reference and related application capabilities **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** i dislike the searching fields in references **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** many capabilities **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy tracking of related patents ### 14. FoundationIP works well for our firm. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** I like the interface with the United States Patent & Trademark Office. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The non-functioning link to Innography. The link used to work but then one day went back to asking that I register, which I attempt to do but it never works. I also dislike the poorly written litigation template rules for actions before the TTAB and PTAB. B/c of that we have moved that docketing to a completely different system. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The docketing of patent and trademark prosecution deadlines **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for your feedback. We will share your feedback with the development team. ### 15. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tina Y. | Counsel, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Easy to use. FIP creates an environment that encourages employees to work together as a team. Ensures that all team members know their role and that barriers to success are removed or minimized. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The word limit. If a word limit must be imposed, please at least indicate to the user when they have maxed out so as to avoid wasted effort. As of now, when word limit is up, the software simply deletes. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very function software. ### 16. Powerful tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** It is so easy to cross cite matters, and track references for IDSs. Love to have a place to store NPLs, addresses, and names. Great to customize our own templates and activities **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Reports are difficult to create without assistance **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Absoutely. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy tracking, file IDSs consistency, ### 17. CPA REVIEW **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ann Marie P. | Patent and Trademark Paralegal, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Ease of entering and accessing our matter information **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Limitations on creating reports. Wish we could easily incorporate more fields. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Docketing and maintaining matter info. Ease of locating information and entering information; **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Many thanks for the review Ann Marie! ### 18. Effective Docketing Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ronita P. | IP Docketing Specialist, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** IDS Module; auto-populated events; ease at which Personnel is added or deleted **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** PTA adjustments not accurate; not easily visible to see audit trail **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** keeps an accurate docket for the attorneys ### 19. Worth the switch **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Great interface. Intuitive functions. Accurate deadline generation. Great customer service. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Anchoring of pop-up menus could used some improvement especially when using multiple screens. Pair scrape functionalities could further be improved. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Definitely **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trust gained the organization in producing accurate deadlines. ### 20. It is very user friendly and not too complicated to learn once you learn it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Even though we don't have the capacity to use it at this time, I like the various ways you can perform searches. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** At this time because we do not have shared capacity I am not qualified to answered this question. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Docketing ### 21. Intuitive **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** It's a pretty intuitive software... There's not a lot of training involved to figure it out. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I'm not sure how to close out a started disclosure. They just end up sitting there. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easy to quickly document new ideas. ### 22. seamless and easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The form covers all the necessary details to be captured for filing an IP **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Users should be given an option to customize the fields in the form **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** we filed a patent using foundation ip. ### 23. Paralegal/Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Fairly easy to use. Being cloud based, we can work from anywhere. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Too many steps to insert emails into FIP. Save as PDF and upload and if there are attachments, have to save them separately, PDF and upload. Anaqua has an add-on that allows you to suck the emails into their system. We have also had problems with emails not making it to their destination. Still trying to resolve that one. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** I feel like it is easy to use and complete as far as US and international docketing for patents. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Docketing deadlines which is easy with FIP ### 24. I Rely on Foundation IP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven K. | Founder, Legal Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Computer based duplicate tracking for annuities and maintenance fees as well as prosecution dockets is a requirement. Foundation IP provides all that, as well as updates, relatively seamlessly **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Even Foundation IP can become cumbersome if you need to alter records **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The software keeps us current. We handle payments for our clients, we need to know when these come due **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the review Steven! We're proud that you can rely on us. ### 25. Foundation IP Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David C. | Sr Designer/People Manager, Medical Devices, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** organized logically. Great central location for all IP data in one place. Easy to search. Central log of all IP activity **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** No concerns here. I suppose if anything the searching could be more intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** It's worth it. It works well **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing my submissions. Central location to find and review my IP. Organization saves time and increases my efficiency. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the great review David! ### 26. FoundationIP Docketing Solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eden S. | Owner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Both docketing and interpreting your docket are easy and intuitive in FoundationIP. Getting to information you need Is only a few clicks away. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I would like more ways to export docketed items to my Outlook calendar. However, there are new solutions on the roadmap to address my concern. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** There is no one size fits all IP management solution. However FoundationIP covers a wide range of needs for sole proprietors and small law firms to multinational corporations and law firms. It is definitely be considered when seeking a new IP management solution. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** FoundationIP covers my needs for docketing as well as reporting. Being able to create reports and have the reports automatically send on a schedule so no manual labor is involved after creating and scheduling the report is very helpful to my overall efficiency. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the thoughtful review Eden. We appreciate it. ### 27. Useful Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** I like how it automatically brings due dates in. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The summaries need to be a little more user friendly. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking IP throughout the world. Being able to track IP throughout the world. ### 28. FIP works **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** It is easy to use and fairly intuitive. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Frequent slow periods and down times for maintenance. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling, it helps a lot. ### 29. Easy website to navigate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** the layout is clear. Support prompt and helpful. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** tne complexity of entering Int'l extensions **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of managing a portfolio of over 1,000 marks. ### 30. Docket manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** It's very user friendly, ease of creating new records **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** detailed reports are not very easy to create **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great managing a large portfolio **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the kind review. We will share your feedback with the development team. ### 31. working to manage docket **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** lots of reminders; easy to navigate and understand **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** lots of reminders and duplicative emails **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** making sure nothing gets missed ### 32. CPA Global **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Ease of use **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** finding IP can be tough **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** easier to figure out what we've done as a corp ### 33. use of Foundation IP by clients and law firms **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** its unified approach to activities, correspondence and due dates. I like how it breaks things into Activities. I also like the auto-generate functions for IDS's and other documents. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The ability to search messages is not as robust as I would like. Also the options for References are confusing (Marked, Unmarked, etc), but that might be specific to my client **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Provides an excellent system that integrates docketing, file management and communications. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** a large client was using it, so we adapted to it. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for your review! ### 34. CPA Foundation IP User Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven H. | Managing Member, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The ease with which users can generate reports and obtain information using a variety of searching parameters. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The tendency for CPA to include illogical automatic deadlines in FIP. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The largest benefit is to allow our clients access to their docketing information. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the feedback and review Steven! We strive to ensure the accuracy of our deadline calculations. That said, we encourage you to report any perceived issues to our Support Team. ### 35. I Love FoundationIP (FIP) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emilie B. | Sr. Docketing Specialist/Patent Paralegal, Legal Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** I have so many favorite features, but as a law firm, I really love the ability to mange references cited across the entire family. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I don't have any real dislikes, the company works with users to ensure that each new release and feature is what the users would like to see in the system. So they are constantly updating things and making each area more in line with the user needs which is pretty awesome. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Get it, you won't regret it. When looking into the software, ask to speak to a user and see how they are using the system. Once you get the product, join the user group, use the system for awhile, then schedule your free training as you will know what areas you need help in from the professionals. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a huge selling point for our law firm. We are able to offer many extra services through FoundationIP including managing the clients portfolio for them, offering reports that they need easily and quickly, and ensuring less errors in our documents submitted to the PTO by leveraging the PTO Access tool for data verification. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the amazing review Emilie! We truly enjoy working with customer advocates like you. ### 36. FoundationIP is an awesome IP Management System with everything I need! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brenda F. | Patent Paralegal, Computer Hardware, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** My favorite part of FoundationIP is how customizable it is. You can make it exactly what you need whether you are a firm or corporation, regardless of size. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** My least favorite thing about FoundationIP is how intimidating it can be to new users. My best advice is to jump in and start using it because once you spend some time in the system, it is less intimidating and easy to use. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** FoundationIP is a great product but the key is to have a good plan from the beginning. Think about how you want things to be set up (matter types, relationships, families, references, reminders, reports, etc.) before actually putting any information in the system. Once you have a plan in place, your system will run how you want it to and make managing your portfolio a piece of cake. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a very large portfolio and it is often hard to track what we have in specific areas, what is alive versus closed, new invention disclosures, etc. FoundationIP helps us track our IP portfolio from invention disclosure submission, through filing, prosecution, grant and post-grant. We are also able to easily run metrics and analytics. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the detailed and thoughtful review Brenda! We love working with dedicated customers like you. ### 37. Long term relationship with great business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brenda G. | Patent Paralegal, Legal Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** User Friendly software. Updates are exciting and saves lots of time with a lot of searches and data entry. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** With the partnership with CPA Global some of the annuities information do not coincide with CPA Direct, hoping that with the upgrade CPA Direct has this will change. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking is in one database and we are able to keep with up with all due dates. ### 38. The system is very user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The ease of docketing and reporting. I love how you can search action by typing in a few characters. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The system is very slow sometime fairly often. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a great docketing software if utilized properly **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Many thanks for your review! ### 39. Very Useful Patent database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Ease of use, covers all my needs. Seemless. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Fields are redundant. I don't use most of the fields. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** I keep track of the IP at work globally using FIP. **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Many thanks for the review! ### 40. Adequate **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The search function is very easy to use with lots of search options. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I don't like the functionality of running reports to create, for example, a list of all trademarks for a client. Some of the activities generated by entering in new information in a particular matter do not always apply. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to create a complete list of trademark and/or patent records for a client though it doesn't always look that good. ### 41. Good software easy to use with timely updates for rules and nice features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Docketing functions. Really good rule sets and updated regularly. Good support **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** occasional downtime. Slowness is an occasional issue **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Docketing. helps with workflows **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the review! ### 42. Docketing Assistant **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** It is easy to search for a specific matter. It is really simple to add an activity that is not found in the templates **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** There are not templates for some common activities . All deadline including payment deadlines should have a built-in 3-2-1 month reminder. You should not have to go in a create those. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking deadline and creating docketing reports. ### 43. Foundation IP Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chase O. | Patent Paralegal-IP Consultant, Legal Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Foundation IP has a plethora of tools that ensure accurate docketing & initiate proper workflows. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** The reminders within the action can sometimes trip up staff; maybe making the reminders a separate subaction is more plausible. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the past, the reporting letters and how/when they were sent out was an issue. When I used Foundation IP, the tool for generating reporting letters was beneficial. ### 44. FIP is simple and user-friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The best thing about FIP is the simple screens and organization of the data. Information is easy to find and sort through. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Creating reports is a bit difficult and not user friendly. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** The web-based platform is helpful because we outsource our docketing. The link into FTF is helpful as well. ### 45. generally good review of FIP **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Flexible reporting; good response from "help desk" **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** IDS module is not as powerful / not as flexible as needed **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Consider cost / performance tradeoff. Big systems (Anaqua) are very expensive. Smaller, cheaper systems might not have the req'd capability **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** patent docketing ### 46. Foundation IP review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The ability to archive detailed notes and file histories into each of our records. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** I feel like there are too many redundant layers when navigating the system and creating / running reports can be a difficult experience. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** TM docketing ### 47. Foundation IP getting better and better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eileen D. | Paralegal, Intellectual Property, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2016 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Can handle both patents and trademarks and does all the heavy lifting. One place for many things. Helps us with manage risk and compliance. Like the new dashboard **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Pto Access is still tough as is setting up reports. It will get better in the next 12 months so looking forward to that **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** More communication. How does all this fit together and what is the cost or what is included. At dinner last night. I sat with several CPA global folks and not a single one introduced themselves to us or tried to identify us as customers. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Patents and trademarks have different requirements so dealing with prosecution, docket I guess and reporting are the main things we deal with on a daily basis **Official Response from Haydn Evans:** > Thank you for the thoughtful feedback Eileen. ### 48. Solid Product with Complete Functionality to Mange Our IP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** The ability to keep all of our IP in central database that can be accessed by multiple people worldwide and the ability to mine the IP data. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** UI is dated and and could take advantage of more modern UI Technology. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Solid full-featured product with ability to customize and tailor to your needs. **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to understand why IP we have to protect our patents and which patents we have for defensive purposes. ### 49. My experience with Foundation has been a long learning curve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** search and report capability, ability to see histories of various IP matters **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** too many nested menus that are non-intuitive to navigate **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** try to get a cook book manual on how to navigate it **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** ability to see our IP histories ### 50. FIP review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Susan D. | Patent Paralegal, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2016 **What do you like best about FoundationIP?** Its innovation and how they keep up with Changing environments. The new dashboard features and the syncing with PTO Access. **What do you dislike about FoundationIP?** Sometimes the report building features can be a struggle. **Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP:** Ease of use, streamline processes **What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having outside counsel docket directly into our system and the ability to share documents and store documents in one place. ## FoundationIP Discussions - [Does FoundationIP offer Automated Data Verification?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/data-verification) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [How do you receive feedback from your user base? 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