Assignee

Intellectual property management software for enterprise IP teams

Enterprise IP teams manage thousands of patents across subsidiaries, acquisitions and financing agreements. Assignee gives them the ownership layer of their intellectual property management software: the recorded owner of every patent, the chain of title behind it and an alert whenever it changes.

Ownership you can show to a buyer, a lender or a court

Docketing systems track deadlines. Assignee tracks title. It reads the public assignment record for every patent in your portfolio and the portfolios you watch, and shows where the record and your own books disagree, before a transaction or a dispute makes it urgent.

  • Patents still recorded under a former company name after a merger
  • Inventor assignments that were never recorded
  • Security interests from old credit facilities that were never released
  • Patents your subsidiaries hold that the parent does not have on its list

Enterprise features

  • Unlimited seats for IP, licensing, legal and finance teams
  • Unlimited chain of title reports and unlimited patents in monitoring
  • Owner lists by corporate family across subsidiaries and former names
  • SSO with SAML
  • Audit log of searches, exports and changes to watch lists
  • Roles and permissions by team and matter
  • API with dedicated limits for your own systems
  • Excel export with reel and frame document references
  • Service level agreement
  • Annual invoicing

Security and procurement

Assignee works only with public patent records and the data your team adds. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access follows the roles you set and every action is written to the audit log. Our security documentation answers the questions procurement and information security teams ask. Request it at support@assignee.io after you create your account.

Fits next to the systems you already use

Use the USPTO assignment API to bring the owner of record and title risk flags into your docketing, contract or data warehouse tools, or export to Excel for a one time review. Assignee does not replace your docket. It checks it against the public record.

Where enterprise teams use Assignee

  • Post merger clean up of recorded ownership across acquired portfolios
  • Lender and investor reviews of patent collateral
  • Licensing programs that need proof of title for every patent offered
  • Monitoring of competitors and of patents the company licenses in

Read more on IP portfolio management software and patent due diligence.

Enterprise pricing

Enterprise starts at $1,499 per month, with annual invoicing available. Create your account to start, then write to support@assignee.io to arrange the annual agreement. Compare all plans on the patent search software pricing page.