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MAX-ID™ (Invention Disclosure Capture)
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Benefits
Unlike other products in the market, MAX-ID™ only requires incremental investment. This pay-as-you-go scheme enables our clients to achieve invention capture efficiencies without a large, initial investment. Sources of higher returns include:
Business Value through Prioritization
- A centralized view enables a portfolio approach
Time Savings
- Easy–to–use search and analysis tools
- Lean administrative review and approval work flow
Increased Productivity
- Captures more inventions by making inventor submission easier
- Provides alerts to reduce processing delays
- Awards calculation results in recognition and productivity of inventors *
Risk Mitigation
- Centralized tracking and audit trail
- Minimizes missed opportunities due to process inefficiencies
Visibility and Control
- Inventor has visibility throughout the process and receives alerts at significant milestones
- R&D Head and Chief Patent Counsel have more visibility to contributors *
Learn more about using MAX-ID™ by functional role
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Relevant Solution Features
- Offers a centralized, secure, web-based invention disclosure capture system with process and status visibility to senior management, process administrators (patent counsel or legal operations) and inventors
Benefits
- Automated and optimized invention disclosure filings
Chief Patent Counsel
Relevant Solution Features
- Advanced search options and role-based reports
- Secure access and communications with central repository and backup for added data security
- Easily analyze submission to filing conversion time and rates
- Generate reports to provide insight
Benefits
- Risk mitigation
- "Internal" customer satisfaction
- Increased efficiency in disclosure capture and processing
- Maintain competitive edge based on timely processing
- Easily identify and track the most inventive departments/inventors
- Track processing efficiency—how long did it take from submission to decision *�
- Prevent duplication of efforts (similar inventions being erroneously filed)
Head of R&D
Relevant Solution Features
- Custom reporting with color changes and alerts with role-based view
- Alerts for delays
- Centralized tracking of ideas based on internal discussions, recommendations or ratings
- Automated inventor awards calculator
Benefits
- Visibility to business valuation of inventions early in product lifecycle
- R&D team can “file first and collaborate later”
- Identify areas with high inventive activity
- Manage R&D department budget better
R&D Scientist / Reviewer
Relevant Solution Features
- User-friendly, integrated and automated work flows for collaboration, disclosure and review with custom reporting and alerts
- Electronic submission of invention disclosures
- Streamline often repeated administrative processes *
- Timely review by Review Committee or subject matter experts
Benefits
- Statistics to support recognition of invention
- Minimize overhead, faster response time and increased visibility of one’s impact and improved productivity
- Reduce iterations for clarification and reviews
Legal Operations
Relevant Solution Features
- Integrated and automated configurable work flows for disclosure and review process with role-based view, central repository and backup
- Audit trail
- Ability to import inventor related information from HR systems
Benefits
- Streamline often repeated administrative processes *
- Reduce cycle time of invention disclosures
- Lower the cost of pre-filing activities
- Standardize the invention capture process across all business groups
* Planned for inclusion in MAX-ID™ product road map
