The Extent of Information Requirement in Submitting an Invention Disclosure Form
Streamlining Invention Disclosures: The Triangle IP Approach
Triangle IP offers a unique solution for invention disclosures, with a customizable IDF (Invention Disclosure Form) available in both Microsoft Word and Excel formats. This service is accessible to all, whether you're a Triangle IP customer or not.
The IDF is designed to strike a balance between length and content, ensuring it's concise yet thorough. It prioritizes clarity and essential detail, requesting technical information that enables evaluators (management and patent counsel) to understand the invention's best mode and key inventive features.
The form is structured and configurable, guiding inventors through required disclosures step-by-step. Sections include technical description, advantages, problem solved, potential claims, commercial relevance, and more. Flexible digital forms that adapt per technology or business unit can improve engagement and data quality.
Technology is leveraged for usability and tracking, providing an intuitive submission portal with real-time collaboration, tracking, and transparent status updates. This streamlines communication and reduces follow-up burden, increasing form completion rates.
Invention disclosures are triaged by complexity or strategic value, with a tiered review and feedback mechanism in place. Management and counsel can make faster decisions on straightforward inventions, while high-value disclosures receive detailed review. Feedback loops help ensure submissions are sufficiently detailed without requiring overly long initial forms.
Customization of the IDF within the TIP tool allows seamless adaptation to an organization's internal nomenclature. The form captures both broad inventive concepts and specific embodiments or preferred methods, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and protecting business interests.
At Triangle IP, the IDF offers a short form template with mandatory fields for the title of the invention, inventor emails, and an optional field for a summary of the invention. A medium form captures high-level information necessary for a review, potentially saving project resources. A long form provides the organization the ability to track the use of grant money and other resources and monetize the products of those efforts.
In non-academic settings, many innovators may feel intimidated by long forms, potentially decreasing the number of overall inventions disclosures received. To address this, Triangle IP provides a short form template with mandatory fields for the title of the invention, inventor emails, and an optional field for a summary of the invention.
Balancing the interests of developers, business, and patent counsel is crucial in creating an invention disclosure form. The goal of an invention disclosure form is to capture all details of an innovator's creation, including variations and embodiments. Additional details may be requested through attachments like white papers, diagrams, photographs, or descriptions for additional detail. However, these additional fields require more time from the innovators, and they may not understand what many of these additional fields mean.
In summary, Triangle IP's IDF is clear, structured, and adaptable, optimized for ease of use by innovators while capturing all legally and strategically relevant information for management and patent counsel. Integrating such forms into a broader disclosure management system further enhances engagement and information quality.
- Triangle IP offers a customizable Invention Disclosure Form (IDF) in both Microsoft Word and Excel formats, accessible to all.
- The IDF is designed to be concise yet thorough, prioritizing clarity and essential detail.
- The form includes sections such as technical description, advantages, problem solved, potential claims, commercial relevance, and more.
- Technology is used for usability and tracking, providing an intuitive submission portal with real-time collaboration, tracking, and transparent status updates.
- The IDF is triaged by complexity or strategic value, with a tiered review and feedback mechanism in place.
- Customization of the IDF within the TIP tool allows for seamless adaptation to an organization's internal nomenclature.
- To address potential intimidation from long forms, Triangle IP provides a short form template with mandatory fields for the title of the invention, inventor emails, and an optional field for a summary of the invention.
