The Application Timeline in the TIP Tool™ offers a visual overview of key prosecution events across each patent application’s lifecycle. Whether you’re tracking filing dates, office actions, interviews, or allowances, the timeline helps you see the big picture — and zoom into the details that matter. To accommodate different workflows…
The TIP Tool™ offers real-time collaboration across the entire patent lifecycle — from idea capture to filed patents. Whether you’re brainstorming to refine ideas in the “Idea Capturing” stage, reviewing patentability search results, vetting ideas with business units, or preparing a filing, real-time collaboration keeps your team aligned and fast….
Creating a filing in the TIP Tool™ allows you to prepare and track a specific patent application – whether it’s a provisional, non-provisional, continuation, or another type. You can associate one or more ideas with a filing. This helps teams manage real-world patent strategies like omnibus filings, divisional applications, or…
The TIP Tool™ pipeline has six stages, but not every team uses all of them. Some teams like to keep things simple and go straight from Capture to Drafting. Others add steps like a Patentability Search or Internal Vetting. Some even include a Patent Review stage to decide whether the…
The TIP Tool™ helps you track ideas from early-stage concepts all the way to filed patent applications. The workflow is built as a visual pipeline with stages that represent key steps in the patent lifecycle. The interface is fairly simple and intuitive — just drag and drop an idea to…
“Assume you have 5,000 ideas in your IP pipeline…” Some of them belong to the company.Some were developed with external collaborators like a university or other enterprise.Others fall under different product lines, technology or departments. Now imagine trying to sort, prioritize, or budget for all those ideas – without any…
When you enter an idea into the TIP Tool™, one of the fields you’ll see is the Patentability Score. Let’s walk through what it means, how it’s calculated, and how you can use it to make better IP decisions. What is Patentability Score? The Patentability Score gives you an estimate…
The Value Score helps you (and your team) quickly assess how important or strategic an idea is to your business and how likely it is to get a patent. Think of it like asking: “If we could only file a few patents this quarter, should this idea make the cut?”…
Child applications are applications that are based on an earlier filed application and claim priority to it. These relationships have legal effects. Child applications receive certain benefits from their parents. These benefits tell you the prior art that can be used against the patent family and when the invention’s features…
A patent family is a group of patent applications and patents with interrelating priority claims. A priority claim allows a later-filed application to use the filing date of an earlier-filed application to determine how it relates to prior art references. To understand which applications are part of the patent family,…