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.

Collaborative invention with Equinox Invention

Benefits

Why Do Our Customers Choose Equinox Invention?

Equinox Collaborative Invention Management System

Intuitive, streamlined, and secured collaborative platform deployable at all level of company and organization.

Collaborative invention extension with Equinox Invention

Fully customizable processes, roles, access rights, interface and reports capabilities.

Collaborative invention with seamless connectivity

Seamless connectivity with trademarks and patents databases for early prior-art and semantic search.

Collaborative invention with extensive interconnectivity

Extensive interconnectivity with internal tools or third-party applications

Collaborative invention to filing workflows that are fully customizable

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.

Key features

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 with direct integration

Collaborative Invention Workflow: Ask Questions and Receive Feedback

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

Collaborative invention with workflow Q&A

Collaborative Invention Workflow: Analysis of Inventions

Get business intelligence on invention disclosures.

Collaborative invention with workflow analysis

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.

Collaborative invention with seamless docketing

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