The Three Worlds
IP managers live in three completely different worlds: a patent world, a product world, and a business world. Let me explain.
Features
Discover all features of Patent Cockpit here. For each feature you'll find a brief overview, a practical guide on how to use it effectively, and helpful tips for everyday work.
IP Management
Patent World
IP managers have to be able to understand patent and law related topics and discuss them in detail with the patent attorney, or propose argumentation for an office action.
Product World
But they also need to understand the products — how they function, how they evolve over time, and which market segments they serve, or which countries are important for those products. So it ranges from product management to R&D topics. And you have to understand the technology in depth to be able to see what can be patented, or whether the patent still holds for that product.
Business World
IP managers also need to be able to explain to their management what the costs are for, and how the IP portfolio is growing and creating value for the company.
Patent Cockpit
Patent Cockpit was created to gather information from these three worlds and bring them together.
Portfolio development
Current state of affairs
Patent Cockpit shows the IP rights that are currently in your portfolio.
Evolution of your portfolio
This chart shows how you arrived at your current portfolio — the new IP rights you filed, the ones you stopped, and the resulting portfolio.
What does the future hold?
The new families chart shows when the new families were created (periods of high innovation) as well as the expiry dates of those families. The latter is, for example, critical when IP rights are licensed out or protect important products.
Understand the scope of protection
Everything starts with the real scope of protection
Decisions on nationalizations, renewal fee payments, evaluations, and use of resources depend on what is actually protected.
An image and a short description explain the scope
We work with a representative image and a concise summary that together explain the scope of protection of patents, trademarks, or designs.
This is the basis for real understanding
In this way anybody can understand the true protective scope in seconds, for example when taking decisions.
Keep costs under control
What costs have been incurred?
Record all IP-related costs and analyze by family, year, cost center, or other criteria to understand where the budget went.
What costs are coming up?
Patent Cockpit automatically forecasts your costs for the years ahead. Test different scenarios to see which one best serves your goals.
Patent usage
How are the patents used?
This chart shows how many of your patents are actually used.
How are the patents used?
This chart shows how many of your patents are actually used.
What income is protected
A more powerful assessment of how well patents are used is the income they protect.
Financial contribution
Combining an evaluation score with the protected turnover is a very good indication of the value of a patent.
Document management
Integrated document storage
Patent Cockpit has integrated document storage and a powerful search function. Contracts, emails, drawings, and office actions can be imported with drag and drop.
Accessible via Windows Explorer
All documents are also accessible via Windows Explorer, so they can be opened, edited, and saved directly in Windows — no cumbersome check-in/check-out required.
Save on renewals
Reduce maintenance costs
Thanks to our partners (Dennemeyer and Patent Renewal), users typically save 100 EUR or more per maintenance fee by handling renewal fee payments directly inside Patent Cockpit. Book an appointment to learn how much you can save.
All decision-making information at a glance
All the relevant information is displayed when decisions are made, leading to more sustainable decisions and cost savings.
Custom reporting
Pick the data you want
With our intuitive Data Wizard, you simply choose the fields and figures you want in your custom IP report. By applying a portfolio filter beforehand, you define precisely which IP rights, products, or business units the report covers — so every assessment reflects exactly the scope of your portfolio you need.
Save your assessments
These assessments can be created and stored for later use, so you don't have to repeat the same tasks over and over again.
Group by category
Data can be grouped by different categories depending on what you need. Grouping by product, for example, shows all data in relation to the products.
Export to Excel
Once the assessment has been done, the results can be exported to Excel for further use or dissemination in the organization.
Departments, BUs and groups
Group IP rights by institute, department, BU, owner, etc.
Reflect your organizational structure in the portfolio so each unit can see the IP that is relevant to them.
Assign custom tags for flexible grouping
Use tags for cross-cutting topics — technologies, programs, strategic themes — that do not fit a single hierarchy.
Analyses of subgroups
Run costs, forecasts, and evaluations on any subgroup so decisions can be made at the right level.
Employee Inventions Act
Track invention disclosures
Capture invention disclosures with all the data needed for legal claiming, internal evaluation, and follow-up.
Manage compensation
Calculate inventor compensation and participation shares, and keep the history of payments and decisions in one place.
Forecast scenarios
Forecast
Patent Cockpit comes with an integrated forecasting tool. But since a significant part of IP management is about reacting to changing circumstances, a forecast alone is often not enough.
Scenarios
That is why users can define different scenarios and see how costs would develop under each of them over the coming years. Comparing scenarios helps you find the best way to save while keeping the best possible protection.
Filtering
Getting the data you want
Patent Cockpit has an integrated filtering function, so that you can only work with the data that you need in that moment.
Pick what you want
Choosing relevant countries will make Patent Cockpit work only with data from these countries.
Up-to-date charts
Wherever you go in Patent Cockpit, this filter will be applied. So your Cockpit charts will be up to date, as well as the data you select in your Data Wizard.
User friendliness
Everyone can use Patent Cockpit immediately
No onboarding is required. IP managers, assistants, R&D teams and business managers can use Patent Cockpit straight away.
Functionality that IP managers need
Patent Cockpit offers the functionality that IP managers need: portfolio overview, portfolio assessment tools, IP-to-product mapping, forecasts, and cost tracking.
All data accessible in just a few clicks
Open any IP right and the relevant context is right there: bibliographic data, documentation, costs, inventors, owners, expiry date, score, the products it protects, etc, etc.