PatInForm

• Administration of patents, utility models 
• Inventions 
• Inventors 
• Oppositions, collisions 
• Watch of terms, due date lists 
• Automatic fee calculation and watch of fees 
• Information on current laws and fees worldwide directly on the screen 
• Accounting and cost tracking 
• Automatic EP nationalisation 
• PCT watch and nationalisation 
• Searches, evaluations, lists, letters, forms to patent offices 
• Interface to annuity services 
• Interface to Word 
• Creation of PDF forms
• Display and integration drawings 
• Integrated report generator 
• User administration, access rights 
• On-line help and administrator manual

• Administration of trademarks 
• Classes (of goods) 
• Lists of goods 
• Oppositions 
• Watch of terms, due date lists 
• Automatic fee calculation and watch of renewals 
• Information on current laws and fees worldwide directly on the screen 
• Accounting and cost tracking 
• IR international trademarks 
• EU trademarks 
• Electronic folder
• Searches, evaluations, lists, letters, forms 
• Interface to Word 
• Creation of PDF forms
• Display of trademarks 
• Integrated report generator 
• User administration, access rights 
• On-line help and administrator manual 

• Administration of designs 
• Classes, designs - samples 
• National design application, multiple design application 
• Invalidation actions 
• Watch of terms, due date lists 
• Automatic fee calculation and watch of annuities / renewals 
• Information on current laws and fees worldwide directly on the screen 
• Accounting and cost tracking 
• ID International designs 
• Electronic folder
• Searches, evaluations, lists, letters, forms 
• Interface to Word 
• Creation of PDF forms
• Display of scanned information 
• Integrated report generator 
• User administration, access rights 
• On-line help and administrator manual

• Domain administration of relevant information concerning your Domains
• Domain name, NIC, alternate Domain
• Domain owner, registrar, user, hosting
• Application- and registration information
• Internet link to domains
• Electronic folder
• Info link to trademarks
• Additional information such as cost centre, cost unit, business unit, attorney, webmaster etc.
• State of Authority Information
• IPv4, IPv6 IP addresses
• Cost tracking
• Due dates

• Connection to Inventor, Patents/UM 
• Automatic calculation of the proportional factor 
• Products, value factors and turnovers 
• Interface for exporting and importing of product turnovers 
• Determination of the remuneration directly on the screen 
• License analogy according to turnover 
• Operational benefit 
• Income out of licenses 
• Estimation of value of the invention 
• Lump sum remuneration 
• Automatic turnover gradation 
• Account for paid remuneration 
• Searches, evaluations, lists, letters, statements of account 
• Interface to Word 
• Display of scanned information 
• Integrated report generator 
• User administration, access rights 
• Individual description

• Administration of contract data (partners, royalties,…) 
• Contract rights and contract products 
• Accounting and account lists 
• Link to address administration (partner addresses) 
• Link to Patents/UM, Trademarks, Designs and foreign patents 
• Terms and due date lists 
• Searches, evaluations, lists, letters 
• Interface to Word 
• Electronic folder
• Display of scanned contracts 
• Integrated report generator 
• User administration, access rights 
• On-line help and administrator manual 

• Administration of documents 
• Administration of foreign patents 
• Connection to one's own intellectual property rights 
• Searches, evaluations, lists 
• Interface to Word 
• Import functions
• Electronic folder
• Display of scanned documents 
• Integrated report generator 
• User administration, access rights 
• On-line help and administrator manual

• Cost accounting and accounting system
• Collection of services for investigation, consulting, applications etc.
• Collection of costs (operating costs, global, external services)
• Individual hourly rate per attorney
• Definition of internal/external orders
• Overview of work performed
• Invoicing of work performed
• Electronic folder

Electronic Folder

• Electronic document filing captured from PatInForm folders
• Creating of individual tree structures including free descriptions (folder names) for every transaction type (for instance patents).
• Outgoing mail documents will be archived automatically  
• Outgoing Patent Office PDF forms will be archived  
• Business transactions produced by i.Invent, i.Score, i.Decide will be archived  
• Electronic filing information and documents as well will be archived  
• Interface from Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)  
• Interface from E-Mail systems Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes  
• Interface to i.Folder 
• Integrated multiple choice  
• Direct link via Windows Explorer function "Send to"
• none file type restrictions  
• Search functions for case dependent documents

Using the electronic folder, you are able to archive case dependent documents and E-Mails (to invention cases, patents, trademarks, designs oppositions and contracts). Many documents will be saved automatically. The archived documents can be displayed directly while you are working on current cases. For every transaction type you are able to define a separate tree structure, documents in any order can then be saved to your trees. The document file structure definition on your server will be done by PatInForm.

Global Electronic Folder

• Folder independent access to all electronic folder documents
• Folder independent search functions
• Miniaturized graphics preview presentation
• Collection of several documents in user depending favorite folder  
• Collection of several documents in own shopping cart for further purposes  
• E-Mail export to Outlook/Lotus Notes with delivery of collected documents  
• Excel export
• Document approval and releasing for i.Folder 
• Creating of an additional individual tree structures including free descriptions (folder names) 
• Documents can be multiple inserted into different folders

Using the global electronic folder, you are able to have independent folder access to every document stored in your electronic folder. Using the tree structure or via the search functions you’ll find (documents, photos, drawings, E-Mails) very easy. You can collect documents in any order to your private favorite folder or to your private shopping cart, to send for example E-mails including the collected documents as attachments. Your already defined tree structure will be automatically used by i.Folder.

• Patent application DE and EP
• Trademark application DE
• Utility model application DE
• Application documents will be stored to PatInForm automatically.
• Application No. and filing date will be registered 
• End of life date, next due date, information for annuity services will be computed
• Secure data transmission using qualified signature card 
• Saving of costs for every electronic application

… more about E-Filing

• Global replacement of frequently varying data (cost centre, business unit, cost unit etc.)
• Global replacement for every record within tables
• Replacement for selected families only
• Function available for PatInForm administrators only
• Saving of time, manually input omitted

Data, generated by our intranet products, must be confirmed by a patent department expert. After confirmation, the data and documents as well will be stored to PatInForm automatically.

The permission takes place in PatInForm as well as in our intranet products.

Client:

Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Office

Database:

Microsoft SQL
Oracle SQL

E-Mail:

Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes

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