Collaborative invention-to-filing workflow

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Collaborative Invention Management System

Equinox invention is a collaborative platform to manage process of submission, assessment, and decision on invention disclosures. Equinox Invention is a web based collaborative platform tailored to manage the invention disclosures management process for all companies and organizations.  Equinox Invention provide a solution to ease and streamline the work and effort of IP teams and IP departments to collect invention disclosures, assess disclosures, and issue decisions.  Equinox Invention is entirely tailored to implement your internal process from submission to decision involving inventors, co-inventors, stakeholders, decision-makers and experts in a centralized platform.

Why Do Our Customers Choose Equinox Invention?

• Intuitive, streamlined, and secured collaborative platform deployable at all level of company and organization.
• Fully customizable processes, roles, access rights, interface and reports capabilities.
• Seamless connectivity with trademarks and patents databases for early prior-art and semantic search.
• Extensive interconnectivity with internal tools or third-party applications
• Custom capabilities implemented to align with your legacy process including inventor contribution, inventor remuneration, digital signature, customizable document generation.

How Equinox Invention Can Support You

• **Manage Inventions: **In an efficient and cost-effective manner through a collaborative workflow.
• **Increase IP assets: **Provides a guided way to submit, assess, collaborate, and make decisions.
• **Insure Alignment: **Of inventions with strategic positioning and programs.
• **Reduce Costs: **Of at least -50% to process inventions up to decisions.
• **Reduce Documents: **Used to exchanged between contributors and decision makers.
• **Reduce Risks: **Using similarity search in worldwide patent database.

Return On Investment

• Increase of portfolio of inventions providing a streamlined and structured process to submit, assess, and make decisions.
• Better quality and alignment of inventions with company strategy.
• Protection of intellectual property in a secured and unified platform.
• Significant increase in number of filings thanks to an improvement in invention description quality.
• Easy to set up and deploy at all level of your organization.
• Reduction of invention approval delays and reduction of efforts thanks to streamlined assessments and early stage prior-art search.

Easy to Use

• Overview of existing programs and inventions.
• Programs help assign an invention to a specific project.
• Quick access to search.

Custom IDF

• Add new inventions.
• Add title and linked program.
• Format data using rich text fields or copy/paste from other documents.
• Attach documents or links.

Similar Patent Search

• Automatic prior art search based on concept semantics.
• The key words of your invention are the basis of the semantic search

Orbit Express and Intelligence Integrated

• Automatic prior art search based on concept semantics.
• Two click import of workfiles or lists from Orbit Intelligence.

Collaborative Invention Workflow: Ask Questions and Receive Feedback

• Keep all related data with the invention disclosure, including discussions.
• Assign deadlines to responses.

Collaborative Invention Workflow: Analysis of Inventions

Get business intelligence on invention disclosures.

Invention to Docketing: Seamless Creation of IP Assets

View fillings within Equinox, our suite of powerful docketing and financial forecasting tools for corporates and law firms where you can:

• Structure your portfolio.
• Control and follow-up IP procedures.
• Monitor and forecast your legal obligations and commercial targets.
• Benchmark your portfolio.
• Forecast and follow intellectual property budgets.