How to generate and broaden IP with TRIZ tools

How to invent and protect/extend your IP territory

A core advantage of Oxford TRIZ is the ability to develop clear logical thinking:

• Learn to use the Ideal Outcome to understand all the benefits of an invention (yours and your competitors’) and uncover new possibilities
• Access and apply all patent knowledge to improve your patents using 40 TRIZ ways of resolving contradictions
• Overcome limited thinking and find inventive, resourceful ways to resolve conflicting requirements
• Learn clever, resourceful inventing techniques by mobilising available resources

Tools covered: Ideal Outcome, Benefits/Functions/Systems, 40 Inventive Principles, Physical Contradictions/Separation Principles

Step-by-step strengthening of your IP with Function Mapping

Fundamental to strengthening IP with Oxford TRIZ is the ability to work with functions:

• Define any system in terms of clear, functional relationships for at-a-glance understanding
• Map patent claims then apply the Trimming Rules for rapid patent circumvention
• Map inventions (yours and your competitors’) to reveal all problems and insufficiencies and systematically deal with them
• Develop next-generation systems and products through radical simplification (removing components while keeping all their useful functions and the benefits they deliver)

Tools covered: SaO, X-Factor, Function mapping for claims and inventions, Trimming Rules

Futureproofing your IP with the TRIZ Trends

The unique Oxford TRIZ 8 Trends of Evolution is a standalone part of the toolkit and can be mastered in about an hour and applied immediately to develop IP approaches.

• Predict the likely development of your own inventions and those of your competitors
• Protect your patent territory now and in the future
• Reveal routes to Leapfrog your competitors’ technologies
• Take the guesswork out of inventing! Systematically map he trajectory of future technologies

Tools covered: Trends for IP, Ideality

Walk through our unique IP roadmaps with our Oxford TRIZ experts:

• Step-by-step processes for inventing and strengthening IP
• Simple routes for invention working with existing systems or a blank sheet of paper
• Tactics to protect and strengthen your own IP and circumvent your competitors’ patents
• Systematic approaches to develop next generation products and improve systems