Prior Art Search

‘Prior art’ is any evidence that your invention is already known.

IVAPS IS AN INNOVATION CATALYST

Innovation Vault Applications Products & Services Private Limited (IVAPS) was founded to function as a private research laboratory to offer and promote independent collaborative research and innovation services to the enterprises across the industries.

IVAPS is driven by set of values embedded in each of its organizational processes to accomplish its goals:

• Innovation - renew relentlessly in pursuit of excellence

• Value - discipline and commit to the cause of value creation

• Actualization - strive for fulfillment in each endeavor

• Partnership - build and set standards for workplace and business relationships

• Sincerity - Work with honesty, fairness, integrity and respect

Prior art is any evidence that your invention is already known. Prior art does not need to exist physically or be commercially available. It is enough that someone, somewhere, sometime previously has described or shown or made something that contains a use of technology that is very similar to your invention.

Our Innovation and Design Excellence Suite (IDES) demonstrates value and measurable benefits by

Improving rate of innovation Increasing ROI of research and development initiatives - Reducing problem solving time, associated costs and uncertainty of innovation process - Promoting Technology Forecasting, Patent Design Around and Intellectual Property Management/Commercialization

The Business Need

Sustainability of business depends upon the ability of the organization to develop and commercialize its inventions at a rate faster than its competitors. At the same time business expects the innovation process to get more and more certain and predictable in terms of the desired outcomes. Organization needs additional thought instruments and procedures to provoke scientific minds and infuse creativity to foster generation of ideas that can be converted into intellectual properties. This can be achieved through systematic adoption of proven problem solving methods like TRIZ, VE, FMEA as part of the innovation process. IVAPS helps an organization to define its Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Process and automates them on IDES suite of software products to better serve the sustainability needs of the business.