Services
Patent Portfolio Analysis and Engineering
Freedom to innovate. Freedom to operate. A rational approach to intellectual property. To help you achieve these goals, Invention Arts works with you to identify and create highly targeted patent IP strategic to your business and industry in the foreseeable future. Unlike traditional patent harvesting efforts, our targeted, on-demand approach to innovation creates and secures tangible patent portfolio value well ahead of general market awareness.
- Review and analysis of existing portfolio, within broader IP and operating context
- Strategic buildout of whitespace, via IP-centric Innovation
- Identify and leverage latent value: building out the extensible, relevant “gems,” bridging to emerging market and IP environment
- Support engagement with secondary patent marketplace: brokerage, sales, licensing, other models
Product Innovation
Our Invention by Design process produces more and better product opportunities, faster than conventional methods. We'll apply it to your business to deliver:
- Evolutionary extensions of existing product
- Potentially disruptive, new product formulations
- Emergent technology requirements
- Design requirements and specifications
- Wireframes and mocks
- Prototypes
Insight
You operate in a context of disruptive change. We'll help your executive, strategy, product, and IP teams to understand how the new context will affect your business, revealing what you can and should do about it. The new context includes:
- Radical changes in the way people communicate and connect to each other and the world driven by mobile, context-aware, sensor-rich devices
- A growing and open social graph and social infrastructure for the web
- Social media creation and distribution at personal, group, and global scales
- New forms of social advertising and marketing leveraging brand advocates and word of mouth
- Real time interaction among people, data, and the world
- New sources of value and insight from the management and analysis of masses of data
- The challenges and opportunities around protecting, sharing, and monetizing personal data
Invention Programs
The Invention Arts team has created and run successful programs to support grassroots invention efforts, tapping the vast wealth of knowledge of your employees, revealing both innovative products and forward thinking patents. We can deliver:
- Grassroots Invention Programs: using processes and tools to build and fill invention pipelines, driving ideas from concept to reality, revealing ideas both big and small, and the prolific inventors in your midst
- Invention Management Systems: implementing tools to capture ideas, collaborate on their refinement, and connecting them to implementers who can turn them into reality
- Futurist Programs: when incremental innovation is not enough, empower your employees to look forward, likely eliciting true breakthroughs
- Focused Invention Events, Pre-Storms, and Summits: high-touch events and meetings, enhancing the invention process
- Invention Councils: building and managing teams to review, refine, and guide innovative ideas to products and patents