• How Do You Customise the Stages in the Patent Pipeline in the TIP Tool™ ?

    Prefer to watch?Start with our short walkthrough video that shows you exactly how it works, step by step. Prefer to read?Scroll down for the full written guide with screenshots and detailed explanations. The TIP Tool™ pipeline has six stages, but not every team uses all of them. Some teams like…

  • How to Use Tags in the TIP Tool™ to Organize Your Ideas?

    We offer two ways to help you understand the solution to this query — pick whichever works best for you: Prefer to watch?Start with our short walkthrough video that shows you exactly how it works, step by step. Prefer to read?Scroll down for the full written guide with screenshots and detailed explanations….

  • What is the Value Score in the Idea Form within the TIP Tool™? How to Set It?

    We offer two ways to help you understand the solution to this query — pick whichever works best for you: Prefer to watch?Start with our short walkthrough video that shows you exactly how it works, step by step. Prefer to read?Scroll down for the full written guide with screenshots and detailed explanations….

  • Adding Child Applications in Idea Manager

    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…

  • Family Tree

    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,…

  • Admin Panel

    The Admin Panel is an interface that is visible only to an admin of a portfolio. This panel can be used for specific functions such as customizing idea form, creating additional portfolios, updating prosecutor charges for your ideas, making payments to the paid tier of the TIP tool and many…

  • Archive/Delete Workflow and Restore Process

    Before we go into detail about the Archive and the Delete workflow, let us understand how the case matters are structured within the TIP tool across different stages of the workflow Idea (A matter lying under the Idea Capture or Vetting Stage) Any new idea matter added to the Idea…