Fujitsu Introduces ATMS PMV, Bringing Efficiency to Increasingly Complex Intellectual Property Management

Fujitsu Introduces ATMS PMV, Bringing Efficiency to Increasingly Complex
Intellectual Property Management

– Enables batch reviews of multiple patents
and cloud-based coordination with outside partners –

TOKYO, Sept 20, 2016 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu Limited today
announced the release of FUJITSU Business Application ATMS PMV, a new addition
to its ATMS series of intellectual-property (IP) solutions that support
companies in their overall IP-related activities. ATMS PMV, available in Japan
September 20, 2016, is an IP-management package for patents, designs, and
trademarks.

With existing tools, patent-acquisition reviews
and applications could only be processed one patent at a time. Now, with the
new package, reviews and applications can be processed according to patent
groupings by product or technology – which potentially contain multiple patents
– making administrative processes more efficient. IP information can be further
divided into specific subsets – for example, grouping patents under
“liquid crystal” – for consolidated management. Functionality that
visualizes the overall status of patents related to the specific subset and how
the individual patents relate to one another supports the use of IP to
contribute to business strategies, such as by helping companies determine
whether to retain the rights of the IP they own.

Fujitsu is positioning this package as a core
solution for supporting IP administration, and is strengthening its sales
activities accordingly.

Overview

With the globalization of business in recent
years, companies are filing patent applications in an increasing number of
countries, bringing greater complexity to internal administrative processes,
which include the decision making involved in acquiring patents in each country
or retaining rights after the patent has been granted, as well as increased
complexity in coordinating with outside partners, such as patent attorneys. As
a result, there is a greater need than ever before to make these processes more
efficient. In addition, in the face of a rapidly changing business environment,
companies need to build overall IP strategies that are linked to their business
and R&D strategies.

To address these issues, Fujitsu is launching
sales of ATMS PMV, the successor to its previous patent-management package,
ATMS PM2000. The new offering makes administrative tasks, such as
rights-acquisition applications for IP, more efficient, and strengthens support
for using IP-management information to contribute to a company’s business.

Package Features

1. Brings efficiency to increasingly complex
rights-acquisition processes

1) Equipped with consolidated workflow feature 

With the consolidated workflow feature of ATMS
PMV, reviews on the necessity of acquiring patents or retaining rights are
performed in a single workflow for multiple patents, which can be grouped by
product, technology, managing department, or patent family(1). In addition to
being able to process multiple patents in batches, whereas previously patents
needed to be handled one by one, this feature enables users to grasp the
overall status of patents included in each group, thereby helping to prevent
procedural oversights and other errors, and making operations more efficient.

Also, the consolidated workflow function
automatically categorizes patents according to pre-defined groups, and flows
can be split or consolidated in different ways as required, enabling
flexibility in setting the group to be reviewed in accordance with different
work scenarios.

2) Cloud-based links between the company and
IP-related outside partners 

ATMS PMV can connect to the patent-management
cloud service ATMS PROPAS (figure 1), which lets companies synchronize and
share data with patent attorneys, local patent agents, and other outside
partners as part of the patent-management process. For the company and its
outside partners, this makes the system-registration process for
patent-management data more efficient and speeds up procedures in general.

2. Provides management functions for aligning IP
with business strategies

ATMS PMV lets companies organize their IP
information from the perspective of product category, technology, or other
internal classification, and consolidate the management of it in smaller
subsets. This enables users to visualize the overall status of patent
information in each subset, the status of individual patents, and the extent to
which individual patents relate to one another, helping them discern whether
new patents are needed or whether to maintain existing rights. It can also
incorporate the latest information relating to a technology, product, or
organization, relate that to IP management data, and have it be automatically
reflected in the division of subsets. By automatically linking to the way
patents are related to the latest product updates or to departmental changes in
the management of patents, the burden of management work is significantly
reduced.

Sales Target

JPY 1.5 billion by March 31, 2019.

(1) Patent family

Patents filed in multiple countries based on the
same invention, and sets of related patents.