Decipher IP Management

Statistics now show clearly that intellectual assets are business assets. And business advantage is increasingly about identifying, protecting and effectively managing them. But it's not uncommon for even the most sophisticated companies to be unaware of what IP they have, let alone maximize its value.

How can Decipher help?

Decipher™ will help you address critical issues and align your IP strategy with your business strategy at every point along the IP Value Chain™, from innovation to portfolio management to commercialization. Use Decipher for all types of intellectual assets: invention disclosures, patents, trademarks, contracts and more. You'll be able to integrate data and workflows across R&D, finance, business units and your legal department - so you can identify the assets you have and manage them in sync with your business objectives.

Unmatched flexibility is built into every feature and function of Decipher. Just about anything IP-related is available to view or report on with a few clicks. The system easily adapts to your organization's unique work environment. And a modular structure means you can implement end-to-end, or address your most pressing needs today, expanding as you're ready.

Intellectual Asset Management

In today's fiercely competitive knowledge-based economy, intellectual property is key to creating value. Companies from the smallest start-up to the biggest global conglomerate, virtually all industries and even entire national economies, depend on IP for leadership and growth.
But it's not enough to have great IP. You've got to be great in managing it. To thrive, your company's IP strategy must align with its business strategy.

With Decipher, you have an integrated view of your organization's IP assets, activities and obligations.
Of course, that's easier said than done. The constantly shifting cloud of people, activities, assets and organizations that come together to create IP make it difficult to see the big picture, let alone track and manage it.
We developed Decipher™ to address this challenge. With Decipher, you have an integrated view of your organization's IP activities, giving you the power to:

• Link innovation to growth strategies
• Enable collaboration between IP creators and decision makers across departments and disciplines, including business leaders, researchers, inventors, attorneys and paralegals
• Automate workflow between employees, departments and external firms or partners
• Map IP assets to business units, technology segments, markets, products or any other dimension of your company or industry
• Track costs and revenues for all aspects of your IP portfolio
• Clearly identify your IP assets so you can fully capitalize on their revenue potential
• Accelerate value creation with new IP that supports company goals

Decipher Innovation

 Decipher lets you drive the greatest value from your IP by capturing, assessing and tracking it from the very first steps in its development.

The Decipher Innovation module simplifies and streamlines the invention disclosure and review process. Use it to map inventions, trade secrets and patents to the rest of your IP portfolio-including relationships to product lines, business units, outside counsel and more.

• Automatically collect data as inventors develop and document their patentable ideas
• Preserve an accurate record of invention workflow
• Automatically route disclosures for review, rating and approval
• Capture scores and rationales on multiple dimensions, using online rating forms
• Combine ratings from multiple reviewers and weight results
• Quickly designate patenting candidates to advance, using a simplified initial procedure
• Classify non-patented inventions as trade secrets and store them in Decipher as a central repository

With Decipher Innovation, you can also set innovation targets based on your criteria and track progress against your goals, supporting strategic management of IP during this key early stage.  Data Sheet

Decipher Portfolio Management

 It's estimated that more than $1 trillion of U.S. company value is wasted in underutilized patent assets. This doesn't even include untapped or under-managed trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Not to mention the costs of contract penalties and regulatory noncompliance. These assets are often complex and decentralized across an enterprise - tough to track and even tougher to manage effectively. We created Decipher™ to change all that.

Decipher gives you a complete view of your portfolio. It shows you the all-important relationships among people, assets, activities and organizations. The system generates alerts to keep the right people proactive about deadlines and obligations. And it gives users ultra-flexible reporting capability to extract exactly the information they need when they need it.

The benefits go beyond nuts-and-bolts IP management. Decipher gives you the power to analyze your portfolio in any number of ways, monitor industry trends and more enabling you to make strategic decisions that align with your business strategy.  Data Sheet.

Patent Management

Decipher™ simplifies your internal and external patent process-whether you're collaborating across the office or around the world-giving you the power to:

• Profile competitor, partner or other third-party patents against your own IP portfolio segmentation
• Distinguish between internally developed and externally acquired patents within the same portfolio
• Import patent data directly from the USPTO and esp@cenet

Patent portfolio and process management

Use Decipher to streamline the patent management process, and generate alerts to ensure that key participants know about key deadlines.
Patent quantity

With web-based invention disclosure and the ability to track inventor incentive programs, Decipher paves the way for a steady stream of inventions to enter the patent process. Automated review and rating workflow help the most promising inventions advance quickly.

Patent quality

Decipher provides a secure central storehouse for inventions and patent drafting data. Its web interface makes collaboration easier for inventors, inside counsel, outside counsel and anyone else who participates in your patenting process, regardless of their location. And Decipher uses a document library and available integrated email system to preserve important documents and communication trails.

Cost management

Besides improving the efficiency of the patent process, Decipher offers tools to help you forecast, budget and measure expenses associated with the patenting process, making it easier to manage resources.

Trademarks

Decipher™ is command central for managing trademarks, providing a powerful data storehouse and workflow control point. Its intuitive web interface and flexible security controls ensure that people get the information they need, but only the information they're authorized to access.

Workflow and collaboration

Because Decipher is web-based and accessible through any Internet connection, it promotes greater collaboration on trademark search and prosecution. Outside firms can upload documents, search reports and use Decipher as a portal for communications with your in-house counsel. Automated workflows, alerts and available integrated email ensures legal, marketing, business and outside counsel groups work together seamlessly.

Cost management

Decipher offers your team the tools to manage budgets, estimates and invoices for every trademark search, filing and registration activity, enabling them to efficiently allot resources and reduce costs.

Trademark portfolio management

With Decipher, you can link trademarks to domain names and products, making it easy to manage and report on these relationships. Reports can even include images of trademarks and protected products.

Trademark licensing

Use Decipher to set alerts for flagging contract renewals or expirations; notifying licensees that royalty payments are due; and identifying when revenue differs from the forecast. You can also create third-party profiles, manage incoming and outgoing notice letters, and track disputes.

Trade Secrets

Most intellectual property assets start out as trade secrets. Generally speaking, any confidential business secret which provides a competitive advantage may be considered a trade secret. As with all IP, it's important to manage trade secrets as part of a strategic portfolio. Decipher's™ powerful flexibility enables you to manage a wide array of intangible assets, including trade secrets.

With Decipher you can:

• Inventory - keep an inventory of trade secrets and associated documentation within Decipher. Know what you have at a glance.
• Categorize - map trade secrets to appropriate business units, products, people and partners.
• Control access - maintain copies of nondisclosure agreements and employment contracts of those with access to trade secrets.
• Monitor activity - report on people, companies and agreements pertaining to specific trade secrets.

The relationship architecture and reporting capability of Decipher allow you verify that employees with access to trade secrets also have the appropriate employment contracts, NDAs and non-compete agreements on file.

IP Matter Management

 In describing the capabilities of Decipher IP management software, we use the term intellectual property quite broadly. The term “IP” is used to describe virtually any type of intangible assets that are used in your business. This includes but is not limited to:

In addition, Decipher can be used to manage virtually any contract, agreement or other matter that can affect the rights associated with your IP:

Decipher Commercialization

 Decipher™ Commercialization helps you capitalize on revenue opportunities to drive the highest return on your IP investments. It simplifies and tracks all your organization's activities at the contract and commercialization stage of the IP Value Chain™.

With a central view of all your corporate contracts and agreements, you can easily track and manage related activities, commitments and critical dates.

Decipher comes complete with standard asset types, report templates and alerts, and can be tightly configured to support your organization's processes. It links contracts to assets, people, activities, organizations and more. And it automatically notifies stakeholders of upcoming commitments and deadlines. And sophisticated search tools and flexible reporting options give you quick access to key terms and clauses and the ability to analyze your contracts and agreements across an array of criteria.

Information management

• Manage contracts, including licensing, employment, NDAs, vendor agreements and more
• Get a unified view of all commitments and liabilities and visibility to all incoming and outgoing obligations
• Search, roll up, alert and report on expirations, renewals, warranties, indemnifications and annuity date
• Generate contract reports linked to other factors, such as royalty payments related to a particular technology or all agreements with a particular outside firm

Workflow management

• Streamline workflow and facilitate repeatable processes, reducing contract management costs
• Manage contract approval processes, whether serial or parallel
• Automatically create and email PDF documents linked to IP and other data stored in Decipher

Risk management

• Maintain meticulous records and an audit trail of all contract-related activities to aid regulatory compliance
• Ensure thorough, efficient due diligence by integrating information key to transactions and litigation
• Monitor expense, royalty and other revenue-related agreements and issue alerts on missed payments or forecasts

Decipher Engineering

Estimates vary, but experts believe between 70 and 90 percent of the market value of a publicly traded company is attributed to intellectual property.

Consequently, the management of IP assets can no longer be considered a discretionary function, nor is it solely the domain of the legal department.  It must be treated as a core component of your company's business strategy.  Read the complete white paper "Get your assets in gear: aligning IP and business strategy".

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Decipher Innovation

Decipher Portfolio Management

Decipher Commercialization

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