This product is aimed at managing Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights. It provides top-notch services for Official Industrial Property Agents, and for the Rights Proprietors, either at National, European Community or International levels.
The system manages the Industrial Property Rights technically and financially. It puts a special emphasis in the simplified management of the several variables connected to the whole process of licensing of Industrial Property and its periodical renovations in the various jurisdictions. It controls the whole flow of documents between the Rights’ Proprietors and their Agents, and between the Agents and the corresponding official bodies - Official Institutes for Industrial Property - which have the purpose of attributing the registries and of safeguarding the granted Industrial Property Rights.
Since it has the capability of working in multi-language, multi‑currency and multi‑jurisdiction, the system is prepared to be adapted to the specificities of the Industrial Property markets, at a global level.
TechFrame’s Darwin ® Software is composed of six completely integrated modules:
Process Management
- This is a functional Module dedicated to dealing with the management of Trademarks, Patents and Industrial Designs processes and daily procedures.
- Structurally divided between information concerning Trademarks and concerning Patents, it enables the management of all kinds of official registers.
- It controls and manages all the information concerning internal and external processes, searches and warnings.
- It prints out directly over the official document forms.
- It issues expiry warnings - Fees, Renovation, Annuities and special warnings - Granting, Publication, Refusal, allowing for their printout in the language of the entity which has to be warned.
- It makes viability searches (internal and external) much easier.
- It allows the management and control of the claims processes (attack or defense), managing deadlines and performed actions.
- It performs viability searches and vigilance actions, through automation of the tasks of criteria building, results analysis (using percentages of similarity) and issuing of the relevant warnings to the clients.
Client Relationship Management
- Maximization of the gains obtained from the entity’s knowledge base.
- This allows for reciprocity analysis and for portfolio transfers between entities, or between managers within the same entity.
- It creates mailing lists.
- It manages the contacts and registers multiple information by entity, going down to the level of registering personal data concerning the employee or partner.
Financial Management
- This manages the entity financially, based upon the information made available through Process Management, encompassing the relationships with clients and suppliers, from the point of view of invoicing, bank management and cash flow. This ensures efficient and timely financial management of the entity.
Document Archiving and Workflow
- Provides the system with capabilities of document management and business workflow, allowing digitalization, manipulation, registering and follow-up of all the documents sent or received, or even simply related to any entity and/or any processes in the portfolio.
Business Intelligence
- Opens-up the system to capabilities typically covered by information extraction systems working upon the masses of data managed by the operating systems. With this module, the system provides important management information, relevant in supporting the decision making process of top managers.
Daemon Referee
- Manages all the procedures automatically triggered by the system.
