The USPTO has a new IP assessment tool in beta mode right now. It looks like it might have some potential. I haven’t made it all the way through a full assessment yet, but the pre-assessment tool shows some merit. The web-based tool is designed to do three things:
- Assess intellectual property (IP) knowledge and provide personalized training resources for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and inventors,
- Evaluate a user’s IP asset awareness and target areas specific to those related business needs, and
- Provide access to educational materials based on the assessment results.
If anyone has any feedback on this web-based tool, please post in the comments.