Invention Harvesting Services
Your business generates far more inventive work than it captures. Ideas surface in engineering meetings, get built into products, and are quietly forgotten – while the chance to protect them slips away. Panoramix IP helps you find, assess and capture that innovation systematically, with an in-house team that handles the process, the evaluation and the filing strategy, so your best ideas become protected assets rather than missed opportunities.
Invention harvesting turns innovation from something that happens by accident into a repeatable process – one that feeds a stronger, more valuable IP portfolio aligned with your commercial goals.
• A repeatable process to surface inventions before they are lost or disclosed
• Clear evaluation of what’s worth protecting, and how
• A patent strategy that aligns your portfolio with your commercial goals
Click below or call us on 01522 712 433 to discuss capturing your innovation.
Invention Harvesting Experts: Here To Help
Our patent professionals help you build innovation capture into the way your business works — so inventions are identified early, assessed properly, and protected before public disclosure closes the door.
Here’s what our Invention Harvesting specialists can help with:
• Invention capture processes and disclosure forms tailored to your teams
• Innovation workshops and inventor interviews to surface protectable ideas
• Evaluating inventions for patentability and commercial value
• Prioritising which inventions to patent, keep as trade secrets, or publish defensively
• Managing disclosure risk through NDAs so inventions are not lost through premature publication
• Building and maintaining a patent portfolio aligned with your strategy
• Inventor awareness training to keep the pipeline flowing
Our Invention Harvesting Process
If you want to capture innovation properly, here’s how it works with Panoramix IP:
• We have a quick call to understand your R&D, your products and your commercial priorities
• We help you introduce a simple, low-friction way for teams to record new inventions
• We run inventor interviews or workshops to surface ideas that might otherwise go unnoticed
• We evaluate each disclosure for patentability, commercial value and disclosure risk
• We recommend how to treat each one – patent, trade secret, or defensive publication
• We progress the priority inventions to patent filing and build them into your wider IP strategy
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Turning Innovation Into Assets
Most businesses invent far more than they protect. Without a deliberate process, valuable ideas are built into products and then forgotten – or, worse, disclosed publicly before any application is filed, which can permanently bar patent protection.
Invention harvesting closes that gap. By capturing inventions early and evaluating them consistently, you build a patent portfolio that reflects the real innovation happening in your business – an asset base that supports valuation, investment, licensing and competitive advantage.
Deciding What to Protect, and How
Not every invention should be patented. Some are better kept as trade secrets; others are best published defensively to stop competitors patenting them; and the strongest candidates justify the investment of a patent application. The skill lies in telling them apart.
Our team of patent protection specialists will help you to make those decisions with a clear eye on both technical merit and commercial return. The result is a focused strategy that spends your budget where it will do the most good, rather than filing everything or protecting nothing.
Speak to our team on 01522 712 433 or email info@panoramixip.co.uk to get started.
FAQs
What is invention harvesting?
Invention harvesting is a structured, repeatable process for identifying inventions within your business, evaluating them, and deciding how best to protect the ones worth protecting. Rather than relying on individuals to remember to raise ideas, it builds capture and assessment into your normal ways of working.
Why do we need a process - can’t inventors just tell us?
In practice, inventors are busy and often do not recognise that what they have done is protectable, or assume someone else will deal with it. A light-touch process – simple disclosure forms, periodic interviews, a clear route to raise ideas – captures far more than good intentions alone, and catches inventions before they are publicly disclosed.
How does disclosure affect patentability?
For most inventions, any public disclosure before a patent application is filed can destroy novelty and bar protection – including at conferences, in marketing, or on a website. A key benefit of invention harvesting is catching inventions before that happens. We help you manage disclosure risk so opportunities are not lost.
Should we patent everything we invent?
No. Patents are an investment and only make sense where the commercial return justifies it. Some inventions are better protected as trade secrets, and some are best published defensively to keep competitors from patenting them. We help you triage each invention so you spend your budget where it counts.
Who owns inventions made by our employees?
In the UK, inventions made by employees in the normal course of their duties generally belong to the employer, subject to the provisions of the Patents Act. The position can be less clear for contractors or inventions made outside normal duties. We help you confirm ownership and put supporting agreements in place.
How much does an invention harvesting programme cost?
The process itself can be introduced at modest cost and scaled to your size – the larger investment comes only when you choose to file on the inventions worth protecting. We will help you design a programme that fits your resources and give you a clear view of the costs. Contact us to discuss.
Client Testimonials
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Our Case Studies
Case Study: British American Tobacco
Case Study: Cambridge Mechatronics
Case Study: The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
Case Study: Wow Hydrate
Case Study: The Earthshot Prize
Case Study: Escape Fitness
