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.
The university uses survey data to determine competitive pay levels for specific jobs in a defined labor market and to assess the competitiveness of our pay ranges relative to other organizations competing for the same talent. 1  This process is commonly called, Benchmarking, and it includes: 1  Salary SurveysâThe Compensation Office participates in and/or purchases over 20 compensation surveys each year to gather data from the labor market. These surveys provide market information for a representative sample of jobs at the university.