Using the feature idea management you can display and manage own ideas, which will be registered as property rights.
Overview
All users can open the overview of all available ideas of your enterprise by the menu item
Idea management.
Using the filter function in the lower area the amount of displayed ideas can be reduced. The default setting for the
Document filter is
ai>0, which displays all ideas. The terms can be combined with the logical operators AND and OR. You can filter by all column names which are listed at the right.
Extended view
Users of the role
patent department can see and change additional information. By clicking on details they will be displayed and with the button
Edit idea you can change the data.
Add a new idea
By the button
Add idea a new idea is created. Fill in all input fields and commit by
Create idea.
To add a draft you need to save the corresponding image in
jpg format in the file system folder
export/ideas. The file name has to be the unique idea number as displayed in the overview. (
Example: invention xyz was added as idea 4 in the idea management: the image file is placed in
export/ideas and named
4.jpg.)
Connecting the idea with the patent
If a property right of an idea has been published, you can connect the patent with the idea in the document display of the patent. Then you also find the property right via the idea management. For this purpose you click in the document view before
Idea No. on the symbol
(in the example below before
tutorial No.:). Enter the number of the idea in the idea management in the popup.
Now the document is connected to the idea. By
you can remove the connection.