Invention disclosure management use cases
Who uses Autessa IDF Manager, and for what?
Autessa IDF Manager is used by inventors to disclose patent ideas, by patent review committees and counsel to evaluate and decide on them, and by IP and R&D leaders to see the invention pipeline. Each person gets a role that fits their part in the program.
- Portfolio counts at a glance
- Click a stage to open the list filtered to it
By role
Use cases by role
Contributor role
Inventors and engineers
- Write a disclosure while the idea is fresh, and finish it later
- Name co-inventors and collaborators
- Attach sketches, lab notes, bench data and email
- Submit for review and follow the status
- Answer reviewers’ questions in comments
Reviewer role
Patent review committee
- Work the queue of submitted disclosures
- Score novelty and commercial value from 1 to 10
- Discuss candidly in internal comments
- Approve, hold or reject with a recorded reason
Reviewer role
In-house and outside patent counsel
- Write the patentability assessment and prior art analysis
- Keep attorney notes on the disclosure
- Record docket and application numbers, filing and priority dates
- Mark disclosures filed and granted
Reviewer or Admin role
IP and R&D leaders
- Watch the pipeline on the dashboard
- Record file decisions, rationale and licensing strategy
- Track how many ideas were approved, filed and granted
- Read the activity feed across the portfolio
Admin role
Program administrators
- Grant roles by email and change them inline
- Brand the portal with your name and logo
- Edit or delete any disclosure when needed
Viewer role
Executives and stakeholders
- Read public fields of every disclosure
- See the pipeline counts
- Learn the process from the built-in guide
By industry
Use cases by industry
Hardware, robotics and devices
Engineering teams with frequent mechanical and electrical inventions, where drawings and bench data matter. Figures and documents sit on every disclosure.
Software and AI companies
Fast-moving teams that need a light way to capture algorithmic ideas before they ship. Two required fields and Markdown make capture quick.
Startups building a first portfolio
Founders and early engineers who want a disciplined disclosure habit from day one, without a heavyweight IP suite.
Life sciences and medical devices
Research groups that need the problem, the mechanism and the prior art written down clearly, with reviewer-only legal notes.
Manufacturing and industrial
Process and tooling improvements from the plant floor, triaged by a review committee and filed selectively.
Research labs and R&D centers
Many inventors, a small IP team, and a need to see what is in the pipeline at any moment.
FAQ
Questions about who uses IDF Manager
Who should use invention disclosure software?
Any organization that wants to patent some of its ideas. Inventors use it to write disclosures, a review committee and patent counsel use it to evaluate and decide, and leaders use it to see the pipeline.
Is Autessa IDF Manager suitable for a startup?
Yes. It is quick to start, needs only a title and a summary or novelty statement to capture an idea, and grows into a full review workflow with scoring and legal fields as the portfolio grows.
Can outside patent counsel use it?
Yes, if you give them access. Counsel are usually given the Reviewer role, which shows the legal, commercial and scoring fields and lets them move disclosures through the pipeline.
Can we run more than one invention program?
Each IDF Manager workspace is one program with one pipeline. Tags let you separate disclosures by business unit, product line or technology inside it.
Start your invention program
Set up your invention program
It works out of the box: invite your inventors as Contributors and your committee as Reviewers, take the first disclosure through review, then tailor it in Autessa as your program grows.
Disclosure form · review pipeline · reviewer scoring · role-based access
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Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
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