Run corporate IP like an operation, not a spreadsheet
Background
In-house IP teams sit between R&D, management, finance, and outside counsel. Good inventions surface informally and get lost; proposals travel by email; deadlines live in spreadsheets; and by the time patentability is seriously tested, filing budgets are already committed. The knowledge that should compound — prior searches, past decisions, competitor moves — stays scattered across inboxes and drives.
Challenges
- Invention ideas from R&D are captured inconsistently, or not at all
- Proposal reviews and approvals run over email with no audit trail
- Patentability is assessed late, after drafting costs are committed
- Annuity, Office Action, and review deadlines are tracked by hand across jurisdictions
- Management has no portfolio-level view of cost, value, and risk
Solution
One connected pipeline from R&D idea to managed portfolio
Capture and mature inventions with AIPLUX IP Hub
Engineers jot down an idea in minutes; an AI interviewer asks the follow-up questions a patent engineer would, consolidates a structured draft disclosure, and scores its completeness. Promising ideas convert to formal proposals that flow through your own multi-step review workflow — every comment, return, and approval recorded.
Before money is spent, a deep patentability analysis decomposes the invention into features, runs two rounds of live prior-art search with citation mining, reads the closest references in full, and returns a feature-by-feature claim chart with novelty and inventive-step scores.
Quantified Benefits:
- More and better invention disclosures from the same R&D teams
- Filing decisions backed by claim-chart evidence, not gut feel
Never miss a date: portfolio, annuities, and watching
Approved filings register themselves into the portfolio. Multi-country fee schedules generate annuity plans and forecasts; IP and finance are notified before every deadline; Office Actions are analyzed item by item with response drafts and statutory deadlines fed into the docket. Standing watches monitor competitors and technology classes, with AI triaging new publications by relevance.
Quantified Benefits:
- Zero missed annuity and response deadlines across jurisdictions
- Early warning when competitors publish in your technology space
Give the whole department AI leverage with AIPLUX Cube
Alongside the structured pipeline, AIPLUX Cube turns the department's documents — prior searches, license agreements, litigation records, internal guidelines — into a cited, searchable knowledge base. Dynamic Tables let AI extract structured registers from stacks of contracts or patents, with a person approving every value before it lands.
Quantified Benefits:
- Institutional knowledge answers questions with page-level citations
- Document registers build themselves, verified by your team
The result is a single, auditable IP operation: ideas stop leaking, decisions are made earlier and with evidence, deadlines manage themselves, and management finally sees cost and value in one place — all on infrastructure you control.
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AIPLUX IP Hub
The in-house IP management platform: idea harvesting, proposals and approvals, patentability analysis, watching, and portfolio management with annuities and rewards.
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The on-premise AI workspace: cited document Q&A, Office Action analysis, AI-assisted drafting, and AI-extracted document tables.
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