Questel offers another portal called Questel Inventor Portal (QIP). This tool helps in managing data received from research team. This is integrated with Questel’s unique Patent Family Database.
It helps IP Researcher, IP professional, product developers and legal entity dealing in innovation. The Questel Inventor Portal allows to eliminate bottle necks in delivering inventions by creating better inventions having a feature of an early art checks including patents’, scientific documentation etc. It supports in innovation workflow by sharing data with other legacy system. Main features of this platform is to submit Inventions as per strategic objectives set by the company. By this feature of the tool inventor can check and recheck the invention disclosure based on any inventions done internally or any similar patents, defensive publications or other scientific publications that could jeopardize the patentability of the invention.
It follows three below steps:
Assess
Questel Inventor Portal also helps in assessing as the invention is submitted to the IP department and then the assessment is done based on the alignment with the company technology and patent portfolio and if any risk mitigation against existing contracts and co invention or any prior art search and freedom to operate with SIMILAR PATENT SEARCH (SPS). Then the collaboration is done through automatic email and notification by the professionals with proposed deadlines.
Review
Once the review stage is completed by sending responses and final acceptance of the invention is done and ready for final decision making.
Decide
Questel Inventor Portal acts as a virtual or physical committee which takes rapid decision thus saving time to file a patent application, publish a defensive publication or decide to do a trade secret. This portal can be accessed anywhere in the world in a unified, secured and 24/7 available environment.
The tool is has simple dashboard capabilities which can track the organization performance and productivity. The database can be reused when assessing the renewal of annuities, the extension relevancy. We at Patracode provide this tool on licenses. Our product experts and consultants provide detail demonstration on how to use the tool and address all possible queries. We would be happy to assist you in your complete innovation cycle.