How it works
A disciplined route from a raw disclosure to a licensable package.
Eight stages, one standard dossier and a single decision point for industry. Nothing advances until ownership, evidence and commercial fit are documented.
Process diagram
The workflow at a glance
Eight stages
From confidential disclosure to commercial deployment
Every technology follows the same route. Progression is never automatic: at each stage a technology can be advanced, returned for more information, held for future matching, or declined.
- Stage 1
Confidential invention disclosure
You describe the problem and the solution through a structured, staged form. You control how much technical detail is provided at each point, and you can stop at any stage.
- Stage 2
Ownership and contributor review
We identify every contributor, supervisor, sponsor, employer and institution with a potential position, and ask for the documents that establish it. Nothing proceeds while ownership is unclear.
- Stage 3
IP, technical and market screening
Published-art indicators, technical plausibility, manufacturability, regulatory exposure and the size and reachability of the buying market.
- Stage 4
Invention Passport preparation
A single standard dossier that lets very different technologies be compared, reviewed and presented consistently.
- Stage 5
Complementary-technology matching
We look across the portfolio for technologies that, combined, answer a full industrial requirement rather than part of one.
- Stage 6
Independent testing and validation
Review and, where appropriate, physical testing by parties outside the originating team, with conflicts of interest declared.
- Stage 7
Corporate evaluation or pilot
Controlled disclosure to a shortlisted company under agreed terms, then a defined evaluation or paid pilot with success criteria set in advance.
- Stage 8
Licensing, manufacturing or spin-out
A coordinated licence covering the assembled package, a manufacturing agreement, or a new company where that is the better route.
The Invention Passport
One standard dossier for every technology
The Invention Passport is the document that makes assembly possible. It records the same thirteen fields for every technology, so a reviewer, a corporate evaluator and a licensing lawyer are all reading the same structure.
- Problem addressed
- The industrial pain point, quantified where possible.
- Technology description
- What it is, how it works, what is genuinely new.
- Inventors and contributors
- Every named contributor and the nature of their contribution.
- Ownership position
- Who holds what rights, and on what documentary basis.
- Disclosure history
- Publications, theses, posters, demonstrations, competitions, social posts.
- Protection status
- Any filings, priority dates, jurisdictions, or the absence of protection.
- Technology Readiness Level
- TRL 1–9, with the evidence relied on for the assessment.
- Prototype and test evidence
- Bench results, field data, test reports, third-party measurements.
- Manufacturing requirements
- Processes, tooling, materials, tolerances, supply constraints.
- Estimated production cost
- Indicative unit economics at stated volumes, with assumptions shown.
- Regulatory considerations
- Standards, approvals, certification routes and likely timelines.
- Target industries
- The sectors and buyer types where the technology is credible.
- Commercialisation recommendation
- Licence, assemble, validate further, spin out — or decline, with reasons.
The public version of a Passport is always anonymised. Confidential and enabling detail is held separately and released only under agreed terms.
What submission does not mean
Making a submission does not guarantee acceptance, funding, patentability or commercial success. It does not transfer ownership of your invention to IPMeld, and it does not create a lawyer-client, patent-agent or investment-advisory relationship.
What we commit to
A written outcome at each stage, reasons when a technology is declined, contributor recognition recorded in writing, and confidentiality handled in accordance with the applicable platform terms and any separately executed agreement.
Every stage produces a written outcome.
Whether a technology advances or is declined, the reasoning is recorded and shared with the people who contributed to it.