Capture inventions, link the prior art, and track filing status — from disclosure to grant.
Innovation creates intellectual property, but the disclosure that starts the patent process is often the weakest-managed step. An invention discussed in a meeting, a novel result buried in a notebook — if it is not captured as a structured disclosure with its inventors and prior art, it may never be filed, or worse, may be disclosed publicly and lost.
The prior-art picture matters as much as the invention. A disclosure without a documented view of what is already known is hard to evaluate and expensive to prosecute. Yet the literature and patent evidence usually lives in a different system from the disclosure itself.
A structured invention-disclosure register — with inventors, linked prior art, and filing-status tracking through to grant — turns IP from an afterthought into a managed pipeline tied to the projects that generate it.
Athena's Invention Disclosure module is a structured, workflow-driven register: inventors, an embedded prior-art list that links the project's own literature entries (surfaced by the Literature Agent) alongside free-text references, and a filing-status block tracking application/patent numbers, jurisdiction, and grant date.
It carries two orthogonal lifecycles — an internal review workflow for committee sign-off, and an external filing status — so the internal approval state and the patent-office state are tracked independently, as they are in reality.
Because disclosures are linked to their project, the invention sits in the same lineage as the experiments, samples, and literature that produced it — the evidentiary context a filing needs.
Invention Disclosures link to the Literature Agent's prior-art findings and to their parent Project, and route through the Workflow Engine for internal review.
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