--- title: FoundationIP Reviews meta\_title: 'FoundationIP Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 106 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how FoundationIP works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 106 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Legal url: https://www.g2.com/categories/legal --- # FoundationIP Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by FoundationIP but has limited features. Are you part of the FoundationIP team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Clarivate](https://www.g2.com/sellers/clarivate) Discussions [FoundationIP Community](https://www.g2.com/products/foundationip/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Doireann Constantine Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 29 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/foundationip/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![AppColl](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AppColl") AppColl 4.7/5(41) ](https://www.g2.com/products/appcoll/reviews) [ ![Inteum](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Inteum") Inteum 4.4/5(29) ](https://www.g2.com/products/inteum/reviews) [ ![Alt Legal](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alt Legal") Alt Legal 4.8/5(22) ](https://www.g2.com/products/alt-legal/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/foundationip/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 106 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Law Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Law Practice") AL Verified User in Law Practice Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/5/2026 "FoundationIP: Easy Docketing, Powerful Reporting, and Responsive Support" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? FoundationIP is an easy-to-use IP docketing application that enables docketing staff to enter and remove deadlines efficiently while providing attorneys and legal teams with convenient access to review and monitor their matters. The system also includes advanced reporting capabilities, allowing users to generate detailed and customizable reports that support a wide range of practice needs. In addition, questions and issues are addressed promptly, and users receive clear, thorough notifications whenever problems arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? Questions about specific country laws can take longer for responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? FoundationIP ensures deadlines are accurately calculated based on country law. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite JA Johanna A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/18/2023 "For me feel that FIP is a one stop shop for IP Prosecution docketing of Patents, Trademark, etc...." 5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? Creating reports which are very helpful for our clients and also our attorneys and paralegals. Creating workflows which are helpful to our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? There are areas for improvements andClarivate is working on improving in many areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? Images and goods and services featuers for easy reporting to clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Muhammad F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Muhammad F.") MF Muhammad F. Full Stack Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/8/2023 "intellectual property" 4/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? One of the main advantages of FoundationIP is its user-friendly interface, which allows users to easily access and manage their IP portfolios from any location with internet access. The software offers a range of features such as automated data capture, document management, portfolio tracking, analytics, and reporting tools that can help organizations streamline their IP management processes and improve their decision-making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? relatively expensive compared to other IP management solutions, especially for smaller organizations with limited budgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? Streamlining IP management processes: FoundationIP can help organizations automate and streamline various aspects of their IP management processes, including data capture, document management, and portfolio tracking. By reducing manual work and streamlining workflows, FoundationIP can help organizations save time and improve efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Legal Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Legal Services") AL Verified User in Legal Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/17/2022 "The move to Clarivate has been a disaster for FoundationIP" 0/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? The ability to integrate several features with our IP docketing platform would be a tremendous asset and is why we chose the platform. Unfortunately, two years in and we have never received the benefit. The ineptitude of the team and the constant employee turnover throughout the move to Clarivate has resulted in repeated implementation delays. Two years in and we continue to face months of delay from the development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? The customer service is terrible. At one point, shortly after the acquisition of CPA Global by Clarivate was finalized, the initial implementation was still incomplete and they decided to invoice us for the implementation. The agreement was that the implementation project would be invoiced on completion. We spent months back and forth, during which the management insisted the implementation was complete while the development team was telling them and us the project was still incomplete. Meanwhile, we still did not have the working implementation we had ordered. We were finally able to get the left hand to talk to the right hand; they agreed the implementation was incomplete, apologized for the confusion, and agreed to begin working again to complete the implementation. We began working again in early fall of 2021 with the development team to complete the implementation. Now, in early 2022 and more than two years after we initially began the implementation, we are still facing months of delay from the development team. They've demoed a great product but have been incapable after 2 years to fully deliver the product they demonstrated to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP: It's difficult to recommend. Once you begin using Foundation IP there is a real barrier to changing docketing platforms, but don't count on them being capable of delivering all of the features they demonstrate to you. There are a number of new and existing platforms that are developing competing products, and if I knew then what we would face with the acquisition by Clarivate I would have gone elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? The docketing works as intended, although there can be a learning curve and the training provided by the company is very inadequate. We have found the best training is provided by third-party consultants and not through the company. The problem that we have had is that we purchased several features such as the invention disclosure wizard and the forecasting tools. While these should be very powerful features, we have been unable to use these to their full potential. No training and no manual is available for the wizard and the development team has been unable to even finish the implementation of the forecast tools after 2 years of working with them, The entire project has been plagued by frequent turnover throughout the Clarivate acquisition and the apparent ineptitude of the development team. The consultant now in charge of the Forecast implementation seems quite pleasant and knowledgeable, but it's becoming quite comical (and disappointing) the weekly emails informing us that the development team has stilll not completed the work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/19/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic GR Greg R. Patent Attorney Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/26/2020 "Useful for intended purpose" 5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? Easy to access my cases and view history of the case that is being drafted as a provisional or non-provisional patent application or being prosecuted before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Calendar view of billing history. I can search by docket number very easily. It is easy to search by attorney docket number. It is easy to enter and release billing entries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? It is very difficult to view billing history for each case. Oftentimes, I have to go through multiple different tabs and windows to do this. Also, I cannot search by USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) application number. I cannot search by client file number. I can only search by attorney docket number and need to know the attorney docket number to find information about a case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP: It is very useful for tracking patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. However, it is not integrated with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and requires manual integration by a paralegal. You might spend lots of money on paralegal time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Foundation IP to manage the IP docketing and billing for my intellectual property law firm. It is a comprehensive software suite that offers easy to use browser-based solutions to this problem. Foundation IP is very convenient. However, it is not at all integrated with the Patent Application Retrieval System of the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the European Patent Office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller CT Caitlin T. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/26/2020 "Solid Online-Only IP Docketing Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? We like the ability to create custom docketing templates as well as the tags and categories features. The software is updated frequently, so we feel we can trust the rules being applied when we docket new tasks. We like being able to maintain our docket ourselves, relying on FoundationIP for support when necessary, but without having to use an expensive third party provider. Being online-only is a major plus for our firm since we were paperless from the start. We don't have to download or set up clunky software on our firm computers and can just set employees up with a login to the FoundationIP website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? Some of the standard docketing templates need to allow for more customization. For example, docketing the receipt of an interview summary from the examiner also dockets supplemental IDSs (which can be turned off) and a response that we will never file. It would be nice to tell the system at a higher level that the task isn't necessary or get an option like there is for IDSs. Another thing that would be nice is a way to reliably change between matter types after opening a new matter. A client may instruct us to file a US-nonprovisional application, which we open in the docket, then change their mind that they want it to be filed provisionally or PCT first. This requires deleting the US-NP that we originally opened and reopening another matter with the new designation. Not doing this risks rules not being applied properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP: Work directly with the FoundationIP support team at the setup stage to make sure you aren't digging yourself into any holes! The support is very helpful and always ready to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? We run all of our docketing through FoundationIP at this point. When the firm started, we just used it for US docketing, but now trust them enough for foreign docketing as well. Our docket primarily serves as a backstop for internally-maintained lists, and it's nice being able to rely on the rules set by Foundation IP to solve any discrepancies that may come up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Legal Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Legal Services") UL Verified User in Legal Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/26/2021 "FoundationIP" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? The Cloud Portal is an amazing feature for FoundationIP. You can review and track your docket in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? I have not found anything that I dislike at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? With doing say many cases you can track your dockets fast and easy. This is just so time saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Law Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Law Practice") AL Verified User in Law Practice Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/29/2020 "My experience Foundation IP" 3.5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? Freelance, I worked for a firm to integrate their portfolios on Foundation IP. The software is very intuitive. I preferred the English version to the French version. Having worked on other IP software before and I have noticed both positive and negative points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? You have a tab showing the assignment with the date of registration to the Offices but the changes concerning an applicant are not limited to the assignments. It's interesting the change of name and address of the applicant. To upload the documents, it was not possible to put email in format .eml (mac). For the constitution of reports (deadlines, annuities, etc.) there is less intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP: We must study the needs of the company, take into account the different actors of the company for an easy reading of the search. I have already worked on different IP software and all software have its negatives and positives points. each Company must determine its needs to improve Foundation IP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? Foundation IP is a software which must make it possible to manage the deadlines and the title portfolios easily so that each collaborator can have access to the applications and managed the deadlines easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Rita B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rita B.") RB Rita B. Paralegal Law Practice Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/27/2018 "Software is a good overall product" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? Capability of having all matter data in one place. Ability to sort and search results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? The person entering data does not seem to have sufficient knowledge of how to properly apply trademark rules using the software. I would like easier ways to edit and create our own reports. I thought the docketing and paralegal rates were too high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP: Take the time to learn how to use the software and endure the trainings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? FoundationIP houses our IP docketing of active matters. The tremendous benefit is having a reliable docketing system, which also satisfies our insurance coverage requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/26/2020 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Law Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Law Practice") UL Verified User in Law Practice Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/27/2020 "great docketing system" 5/5 What do you like best about FoundationIP? Foundation IP has a user friendly interface. It's easy to navigate and helpful in storing all specific patent information. I've used FIP both as the main docketing specialist and as a paralegal. You can basically have to work for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FoundationIP? You need to be a computer genius to create reports from scratch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FoundationIP: It takes some getting used to because it does provide a lot of information but once you learn how to navigate it, you can't imagine working with anything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FoundationIP solving and how is that benefiting you? Foundation IP provides ample space to store all the information you need. The biggest benefit is storing related applications and how you can navigate between them with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about FoundationIP? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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