Saturday 14 November 2026

Intake

Record a new invention disclosure

Five fields, exactly the ones a disclosure holds. The form checks them here, and the store checks them again when the record is filed.

Disclosure

all five fields are required

The office chooses this. It is how the record is addressed everywhere.

Next in sequence: 2026-001

The inventor as named on the disclosure form.

The title of the invention, as the inventor wrote it.

The day the disclosure reached the office. A YYYY-MM-DD date, not in the future.

The stage this record starts at, taken from the office profile.

The stage list comes from the office profile: received → assessed → decided.

Filing opens the new case file, where the priority year and the decision deadline are already counted.

What happens when a disclosure is filed

  • Two rules begin counting from date_received: the office decision, three months out, and the priority year under EPC Article 87, twelve months out.
  • The record enters the due queue on those dates, and the incomplete queue immediately if a field is missing.
  • It becomes matchable against open calls, with the reason for each match spelled out.