Introducing Inventions: Draft attorney-ready disclosures and assess prior art in minutes.

For universities

Manage your IP and empower your startups.

One platform for your institutional portfolio. A free professional IP tool for every startup in your program. Full cohort visibility, finally.

Features

One workspace for your institution and your entire cohort.

Visibility, analytics and expert services. Built for growing teams.

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From Campus to Market

Built for University Innovators.

Streamline your spin-off pipeline. Keep research disclosures and early-stage patent portfolios organized without the overhead of heavy enterprise software. A modern, free tool designed to help university startups scale smoothly.

  • Portfolio visibility
  • Patent families
  • Researcher disclosures
Start searching
Simple IP monitoring dashboards with technology areas and competitors

Cohort visibility

Full IP visibility across your cohort.

Know every startup's IP position in your cohort before you walk into the room. Spot IP gaps and risks early, across all portfolio companies.

  • Cohort overview
  • Risk visibility
  • Portfolio companies
See how it works
Simple IP Smart upload screen for IP documents

Program tool

Give every startup in your program a professional IP tool, for free.

Strengthen your program with expert-backed IP infrastructure from Dennemeyer. Every startup in your cohort gets access to a professional IP workspace, for free. No setup cost, no overhead for your team.

  • Free for all cohort members
  • Dennemeyer-backed
  • Zero overhead
Use for free

Your portfolio live in under 2 minutes.

  1. 1

    Search

    Type any company or applicant name. We search 165M+ patents worldwide instantly.

  2. 2

    Select

    Pick the right entity from matching results.

  3. 3

    Register

    Create your account in seconds.

  4. 4

    You're in

    Land directly in your patent workspace, pre-loaded with your search.

Frequently asked questions

Can we give all startups in our cohort access to Simple IP?

Yes. Every startup in your program can create its own free workspace, with no setup cost for your team.

Does Simple IP handle researcher invention disclosures?

Support for disclosure management is part of the Inventions feature, one place to collect, assess and prioritize disclosures.

What does the institutional plan include?

Institutional setups are tailored to your portfolio and program. Request a demo and we will walk you through the options.

How does cohort IP visibility work?

You can look up the patent position of any company you support in seconds. Contact our team to help you set up a program-wide overview.

Is my data secure?

Yes. Simple IP is GDPR compliant and built by the Dennemeyer Group, which has handled confidential IP data since 1962.

Give every startup in your program professional IP infrastructure.