Fulfill your mission to provide a competitive, advanced, state-of-the-art learning experience. Our accurate, user-friendly patent search tools benefit students, instructors, libraries, and innovation centers with technology transfer offices. Libraries at colleges and universities worldwide subscribe to the Innovation Power SuiteTM as part of their mission to provide a competitive, advanced, and state-of-the-art learning experience.
TEchnology Transfer Offices
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) play a critical role in universities, research institutions, and companies by managing the process of transferring innovative technologies and research findings from academia to the commercial sector. The primary objective of tech transfer offices is to further support the institution or organization’s mission to not only advance research outcomes, but broadcast those innovations to positively affect society.
Challenges & Solutions
When TTOs are operating with limited staff, there may be only a few team members available to manage the TTO. Inefficient internal processes and strained communication channels can also make the success of this patent process difficult.
IP.com software and solutions help TTOs organize and track patent applications, granted patents, maintenance fees, and legal actions associated with each patent. Our proprietary semantic search engine is a powerful yet intuitive search platform, delivering relevant patent documents and technical literature quickly and accurately. This ensures that TTOs can monitor and protect their intellectual property effectively and efficiently to maximize patent success.
AcademiC Audiences
Instructors & Research Groups
InnovationQ+ delivers a deep awareness of the technology landscape. Our proprietary software allows instructors to teach the value of reviewing patents as a critical part of research.
Libraries & University Systems
InnovationQ+ offers a platform for collaboration and information sharing. It can link scientific, engineering, and business academics with incubators and innovation centers to power collaborative research.
Innovation Centers & Tech
Surface incredible insights without complex queries with InnovationQ+. Innovation centers and technology transfer offices can quickly identify licensing targets or help licensees find their technology.
Tailored Solutions
IQ Ideas+™
IQ Ideas+™ is unique in the market, filling a gap that traditional problem-solving tools and methodologies fail to address. It helps innovators and engineers generate and refine ideas with the most significant potential at the source of the process—before precious time and resources are wasted—so you can accelerate ROI.
Technology Vitality Report
Our Technology Vitality Report uses a proprietary AI engine to power comprehensive IP evaluation, allowing you to rank ideas in a fast, efficient, and transparent way. Get fast and thorough decisions with our Technology Vitality Report (TVR) and improve your review process with less effort.
InnovationQ+™
InnovationQ+ is an innovation and IP decision support workflow solution packed with powerful data analytics and competitive insights that enable informed, rapid decisions throughout the lifecycle—reducing costs, maximizing ROI and accelerating innovation.
Defensive Publishing
Defensive publishing is the intentional and purposeful publication of innovation into the public domain. It is a cost-effective IP strategy that discloses aspects of your invention, so it becomes prior art.
Patents in Academia News
The Supreme Court Just Let an Abandoned Patent Application Kill Real IP. Here’s What That Means for Patent Holders.
At the center of this case is a gap in U.S. patent law that doesn’t get much attention outside of litigation circles, but that every patent holder should know about: the enablement standard for getting a patent granted is meaningfully different from the enablement standard for prior art used to challenge one.
You Just Entered Your Invention Into a Public Chatbot. Congratulations — You Just Disclosed It!
Imagine spending years developing a proprietary framework. Something genuinely novel. Something you believe in enough to protect. Then imagine a federal judge looking at your trade secret claim and saying, in plain terms: you gave it away yourself. Not to a competitor. Not through careless conversation at a conference. You gave it away to the AI tool you trusted to help you build it.
From the Desk of Customer Success
Instead of relying only on titles and abstracts, teams can use Synopsis AI to get a stronger sense of what is actually in a document before committing to a full read. That makes it easier to validate relevance, prioritize the right materials, and keep projects moving.
