An audit of large and mature patent portfolio owned by a major multi-national corporation revealed that approximately 40% of the active patent matters at the corporation did not support existing or future business strategy. The Hutter Group applied an objective, external review of the company’s patent portfolio identified approximately $1 MM in savings possible from abandonment of these non-aligned patents. Additionally, the methodology utilized to identify this savings was integrated into the corporation’s patent management processes to ensure that alignment between business strategy and patent resource expenditures would continue in future patenting endeavors.