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.
Medical Bulletin 22 VOL.12 NO.2 FEBRUARY 2007 What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is a process of comparison between theperformance characteristics of separate, oftencompeting organisations intended to enable eachparticipant to improve its own performance in themarketplace. Its objectives are to obtain a clearerunderstanding of competitors and of customers'requirements.