A maximum of 5 years can be restored to the patent. In all cases, the total patent life for the product with the patent extension cannot exceed 14 years from the productâs approval date, or in other words, 14 years of potential marketing time. If the patent life of the product after approval has 14 or more years, the product would not be eligible for patent extension.
It overcomes. disbelief that there are, by example, other ways of achieving and creating. overall enhancement of an organization (Fuller, 1997). Types of benchmarking. There are four different types of benchmarking which consist of: internal. benchmarking, competitive benchmarking, functional or industry.
Mark Davis describes the differences between bottom-up and top-down market sizing, and advises entrepreneurs to try several methods in order to be comprehensive. Market Size Hypothesis [PDF] (Steve Blank) Steve Blank (of Lean Startups) describes how to state and evaluate a âmarket size hypothesisâ. The discussion includes TAM vs SAM and top-down vs bottom-up estimation. Market sizing (Google Answers) Another discussion on TAM vs SAM, with examples. The article is from 2004, and the links appear dead.