Universities
We help a research group document more than one invention.
A group that spends years on one mechanism often files one invention. The same work can support more: nearby versions, other uses, and the applications a competitor would file around the first one. 8Invent works with your researchers to write those down while the knowledge is still fresh.
Where we fit
- Before a disclosure, broadening one finding into a documented family of candidates for your TTO to assess.
- Before publication, helping the group and the TTO see what a paper would disclose, so filing decisions are made before the priority-destroying moment, not after. Your patent attorneys advise on what and when to file; we make sure they see the whole picture in time.
- Around a grant or commercialisation push, giving a project a documented IP position with evidence labels a commercialisation committee can read.
Built for university realities
- Publication comes first for your people. Our test plans and landscapes are structured so the research keeps moving toward publication while the candidates are documented ahead of it.
- Inventorship is sacred. Inventors are natural persons; your researchers who make the inventive contributions are the inventors. We keep contribution records so your attorneys can assess inventorship cleanly — a discipline tech transfer offices value.
- Your policies govern. Ownership follows your IP policy and assignments. Outputs we create for the engagement are assigned to the university.
- Students are protected. Engagements involving students run under your supervision rules and deeds, set before day one.
Our own filings have already led to research collaborations with several universities and the scientists in those groups. A collaboration is not a grant of the application, and it is not a finished result.
What we are not: your patent attorneys, your TTO, or your research ethics process. We’re the structured discovery capacity that sits beside all three.