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,…
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…
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…
With TIP Tool’s version 2.0, also comes the intelligence that the tool provides. The tool provides information such as time to allowance, and predicted allowance rate that helps business owners take critical decisions and strategize accordingly. Once a summary is entered into an idea form, the form starts showing details…
Currently, the TIP Tool offers automatic status updates of US applications. Applications can be added in the Portfolio Manager by the following ways: Transitioned from Idea Manager Any filing moved to the ‘Filed’ column of the Idea Manager is automatically moved to the Portfolio Manager. If the tool was successfully…
The TIP tool provides an overview of your patent pipeline and team activity. Every role in the TIP Tool has information (represented in a graphical manner) specifically tailored to each role. Hence, a user would see dashboards corresponding to inventor, prosecutor, manager or admin role. Simply click on the Dashboard…
The patent applications that have been filed at the USPTO and not yet published can be accessed through Private PAIR. A licensed patent practitioner or sponsored support staff would have Private PAIR credentials provided by the USPTO that they can use to access the Private PAIR portal. In this section,…
The TIP Tool provides email notifications at various stages of the idea management process. Email notifications are sent to stakeholders when: An idea is published An idea is approved An idea is moved between different workflow stages A draft is uploaded in an idea in the Patent Drafting Stage Value…
The latest version of the TIP Tool provides real time collaboration capabilities. What this means is that two or more users can edit an idea at the same time. The changes would start reflecting to the other user in a real time basis together with the name of the user…
Workflow Stages: The 4 workflow stages that you in the Idea Manager tab of the TIP tool is as follows: Idea Capture: First stage is the Idea Capture phase. This is the initial idea capturing stage, where all your ideas are created, saved and published. After publishing, other collaborators can…