Intellectual property owners are faced with many unique challenges ranging from filing an application to commercialising the IP. Technology transfer offices, research institutions, IP law firms and companies with IP portfolios are inundated with the task of disclosing, tracking, searching, documenting, financing and commercialising the BIG IDEA.
LiveSME IP Management System, an Enterprise web-based SaaS application, is our answer to these challenges. Built to help IP owners and organisations to:
Manage IP portfolios Tracking direct filing, and IP rules and regulations can be a daunting task. LiveSME IP Management System is designed to organise the processes and issues related to efficiently manage IP portfolios. Cases are clearly organised with only one click away to drill down to details of any case.
Manage contacts
Stores all information related to persons you need to remain in contact with. You can drill down to information personal data, minutes of last meetings, reminders, and related activities.
Manage reminders For any case, you can set reminders for important deadlines, renewals, payment schedule or meeting. LiveSME IP
Management System will prompt you via your workspace, email or SMS on the upcoming event. Presented in a useful calendar-format, it is just one click away to engage the workflow.
Manage documents
Any digital document can be attached to a case. These documents are processed, catalogued and stored for easy retrieve. The check-in and out mechanism ensures version control, and provides an audit trail for security. The built-in search allows for Google-like search capabilities into any of the digital document stored in the system.
Manage accounts
Full suite of accounting modules ranging from general ledger, account payable and receivable, budgeting, to bank reconciliation is available. Access information on how much was spent for any IP portfolio, royalties fees earned, and company statement of accounts.
Manage workflow
From your workspace, LiveSME IP Management System will guide and prompt you to the next step. A fully configurable workflow engine to map your organisation’s standard operation procedures and approval processes to automate your work cycle. You always know “What to do next?” and also retrieve you past activities. Tied-up to the reminder module, you will never miss another deadline.
Manage reports
OLAP pivot table functionalities to drill into collected data, and manage “what-ifs” scenarios. LiveSME IP Management System is able to report any information from number of IP portfolio owned to how much was spent. You can export data easily for further analysis.
Manage users
Create and manage users’ access to LiveSME IP Management System. Give the appropriate right access rights for specific modules and activities.
Manage document merging
Automate the document merging for official documents, thus saving time and money. Maintain the document presentation standards throughout your organisation.
Manage IP rules & regulations
Tracking IP and national phase rules and regulations can be a daunting task. Subscribe to LiveSME IP Management System database for complete procedures and forms for IP rules and regulations, and national phases for Singapore, Japan, Korea, China, Europe and USA.
Managed services
LiveSME IP Management System infrastructure provides you with the option to host your IP management services and operational needs within our secured data centre.
Road map
We are working on a new feature on LiveSME IP Management System platform to directly file applications with patents offices around the world.