For R&D
Spend less time documenting ideas and more time developing them.
- Get guidance without learning patent language
- See which technical questions still need answers
- Use prior art while the design can still change
Close the gap between R&D and IP
Good ideas get lost before IP ever sees them.
Valigent gives R&D and IP a shared, ongoing workflow for capturing, developing and evaluating technical ideas as they emerge.
Help engineers develop ideas while they are still fresh. Give IP clearer cases earlier.
Ideas emerge continuously. Few make it to IP.
The problem is rarely a lack of ideas. It is what happens between the first technical insight and a clear next step.
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Unnoticed ideas
Some inventions are never recognized, raised or explored.
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Missing technical details
Others arrive as thin disclosures that force IP to reconstruct the technical story.
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Late feedback
Prior art often enters after the idea has already taken shape—when it is harder and more expensive to change direction.
By then, time has been lost and promising ideas may already be gone.
A shared workflow for R&D and IP
Help engineers develop the idea before IP has to decide.
Valigent helps engineers develop technical ideas before IP needs to decide what happens next.
Shape the idea
Start with what changed, why it matters and how it works. Valigent turns rough technical thinking into a clear invention description.
Pressure-test it
Bring in prior art while the idea can still evolve. See what is already known, what is different and what needs more work.
Choose the next step
Give IP the technical details, prior art and development history needed to choose patent, trade secret, publish, monitor, drop or counsel review.
Less admin for R&D. Better-prepared ideas for IP.
For IP
Spend less time reconstructing ideas and more time evaluating them.
- Receive clearer and more consistent technical descriptions
- Review prior art before committing formal search or counsel resources
- See the latest description, open questions and development history in one place
Trusted by innovators
Fits the workflow your teams already use.
Valigent fits into the workflow we already have. For us, the value was not changing our process, but removing an early bottleneck by making it easier to assess, refine, and prioritize invention ideas sooner.
Built for R&D teams of different sizes
Valigent works for companies with a handful of inventions each year as well as organizations managing ideas across multiple teams and business units.
Smaller R&D teams
Get better material before involving patent counsel, without adding a heavy internal process.
Growing companies
Create a more consistent way to capture and develop inventions as the number of teams, inventors and cases increases.
Larger organizations
Give inventors across the organization a common way to develop ideas before they reach IP.
For new and experienced inventors
Valigent supports people who are new to invention reporting as well as experienced engineers who want a faster, more structured process.
Built for confidential ideas
Your data stays private, access is limited by role, and customer content is not used to train shared AI models. Read about security
- Role-based access
- Encrypted data
- Security logging
Frequently asked questions
- Is Valigent a patent search tool?
- Yes and no. Search and prior-art analysis are part of Valigent, but they sit inside a broader workflow. Teams use the results to develop ideas, understand what may be different and prepare for the right next step.
- Does Valigent replace patent counsel?
- No. Valigent comes in earlier, before formal legal work begins. It helps R&D develop ideas, brings relevant prior art into the process early and gives IP teams and patent counsel clearer, more complete material to work from.
- Does Valigent replace our IP management system?
- No. Valigent supports the recurring work of capturing, developing and assessing ideas. It can fit alongside the systems you use to manage established IP rights.
- Who is Valigent for?
- Valigent works for companies with a handful of inventions each year as well as larger organizations managing invention activity across multiple teams and business units. It supports both people who are new to invention reporting and experienced engineers who want a faster, more structured process.
- Does Valigent decide what should be patented?
- No. Valigent lowers the threshold for R&D to raise ideas and helps develop them with technical detail and early prior-art context. Your IP team and advisers remain responsible for deciding whether to patent, use another form of protection, develop the idea further or take no action.
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