Unycom provides comprehensive management tools for mid-size, large and global corporations. Unycom is tailored to your internal processes, supporting the entire lifecycle of your company‘s IP.
Volume of IP Assets
The massive amount of data and documents related to IP rights, make it hard for IP professionals to stay on top of their portfolios. Additionally, heavy workflows with lots of manual processes leave little time for strategic thinking and analysis.
"The portfolio is thousands of patents, so to do analytics is extremely time consuming and complex."
Corporate
Data for decision-making
The volume of work makes it difficult to maintain a holistic view of the portfolio. However, senior business leaders need actionable data at an overall level, which creates more manual data-pulling.
"They’re spending sometimes weeks or months pulling this data for budget planning and for decision-making."
Corporate
Disjointed lifecycle
It’s vital that different systems communicate to avoid difficult, disjointed moments in the lifecycle of managing IP as disjointed processes exacerbate challenges and add risk.
"Some days you can feel like you’re just logging into different software packages all day long to do the next job."
Corporate
Manual Processes
Manual processes are prone to errors and are a significant time and cost burden. Clawing back this time enables talent to flourish and focus on value-added work.
"The most difficult thing is the collection of documents because people are so moveable… it’s all manual."
Corporate
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Make sure to stay on top of internal and external IP processes to make and implement the right decisions.
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Structure
Flexibly structure IP assets into portfolios and include third party IP, if desired. Update portfolios manually or dynamically, based on specific rules. Define strategies per portfolio to influence future decision-making on related IP.
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Plan
Plan your IP costs and create accurate budgets. Forecasts can be created based on historic or imported cost data. Use integrated project management tools to set up tailored licensing, valorization, standardization, or other programs.
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Manage
Manage all IP and supporting case types in one system and use it to create and control related business processes. This includes contract management, dispute management, cost management, and much more.
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Monitor
Monitor competitive activity, import related third party patents into the system, assess their relevance, have them watched and updated, and decide on necessary actions in case of potential infringement.
Have one source of knowledge for informed decision-making and integrated cost forecasting.
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Shape
Shape your future information flows and decision processes. Use pre-configured best-practice workflows or adapt them to your needs – by defining exactly who needs to know what and when, in order to make informed decisions.
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Analyse
Analyse important IP data based on integrated analytics and customised reports and dashboards. Drill down from portfolio to family to IP right level. Get automatic cost forecasts in filing and renewal decisions, based on historic or imported cost data.
Insights
Provide decision-makers in and outside the IP department with exactly the data they need to make informed filing, renewal and other decisions. For each IP and decision type, the provided decision data can be different.
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Collaborate
Involve as many internal and external stakeholders as you wish in IP valuation, classification and decision processes. They will be notified via email and/or receive a direct link to their digital “task”, including a tailored information package.
Enable seamless communication and collaboration between different IP stakeholders in and outside your organisation.
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Collaborate
Communicate and collaborate with IP stakeholders across the business, and even outside the business, without having to switch between tools and communication channels. Collaborate on the same tasks and documents. Access the same data source.
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Personalise
Personalise your entry point(s) to the system. Manage and filter your task list, customise your reports, organise your favourites. Depending on your user role, you will be provided with tailored access to your tasks and the corporate IP data.
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Streamline
Benefit from fully electronic workflows that can either be used “out of the box” or customised to organisational needs. Streamline IP processes across your business and make your teams more efficient. Automate manual steps wherever possible and desired
Deliver
Have work results such as decisions or documents transparently stored and documented in one central system. Make them available to others who are involved in follow-up tasks. Rely on the fast, secure and fully electronic transmission.
Reduce time-consuming manual steps in your IP processes, either by automating them or by outsourcing them to professional teams at CPA Global.
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Renew
Have your renewal decisions transmitted securely and automatically to CPA Global and let us take care of the required payments. Monitor the status of payment services and handle detected data discrepancies directly in the system.
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Instruct
Instruct CPA Global and other service providers with EP validations, recordals, translations, title updates, etc. Our external order management ensures the secure transfer of documents and data and provides an integrated communication channel.
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Monitor
Monitor the status of instructed services directly in the software. Depending on the type of service, have deliveries be docketed automatically, manually or only after double-check by a second person.
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Automate
Automate the docketing of PTO documents and data in the system. A growing number of USPTO and other PTO documents are automatically recognized, relevant data is extracted and docketed in the corresponding IP case(s).
Learn how Siemens is able to manage an incredible 39 invention disclosures per workday due to the Unycom system.
Scalable number of users
Use functional roles to determine different levels of access authorisations. This includes, for example, permission to perform certain actions or to view or edit specific file types in the system.
Business and data integration
Unycom offers a seamless integration of internal and external IP stakeholders to enable a more efficient collaboration. The system also supports an easy integration of incoming IP data and documents e.g. from PTOs or a portfolio migration.
Professional IT services
Managed IT services ensuring system availability, integration with ERP systems and ongoing user and configuration support.
Unycom with Renewals
Ensure a seamless process with more transparency, improved efficiencies, and realtime patent and trademark renewals information.
Unycom and Innography
By combining Unycom and our IP Intelligence software Innography, decision makers are able to analyse internal portfolios and private matters alongside global, public IP data to make better-informed decisions.
Unycom and EP validations
Instruct CPA Global on EP validations directly out of Unycom. You benefit from advanced order management capabilities and can handle all communication directly in the system.