Valipat needed to simplify, automate and grow its app services.
Summary
Valipat needed to simplify, automate, and expand its app services.
With the help of Belighted, Valipat managed to significantly streamline its processes.
The key achievements included simplifying administrative procedures for European and international patent validation, automating work processes to boost efficiency, and developing tools to enable clients to generate online proposals and essential documentation.
About
The Valipat Story
Founded in 2008, Valipat has grown into a leader in the validation and translation of European patents. With a dedicated team of 60 employees, Valipat sought to revolutionize their service delivery through a collaborative effort with Belighted. Together, they developed a web platform designed to streamline the procurement, processing, and online monitoring of European patent validation orders. This platform has been instrumental in reducing client costs by 30-50%, making the patent validation process more efficient and cost-effective.
The challenge
Valipat faced the critical challenge of enhancing efficiency and scalability in its operations.
Their primary objectives were to simplify and automate the workflows of their teams, develop an online tool for clients to generate proposals, and streamline the administrative procedures required for patent validation across different countries. The complexity of handling various procedural requirements demanded a robust solution capable of addressing these diverse needs while maintaining high levels of accuracy and reliability.
Valipat needed to:
- Simplify and automate team workflows.
- Develop an online tool for proposal generation.
- Streamline administrative processes across different countries.
“Working with Belighted helped us to take advantage of a powerful web framework to build a complete Information System. Our long term relationship helped us to achieve great goals and serve our ambition, thanks to loyal and skilled team.”
The solution
To meet these challenges, Belighted developed a comprehensive Information System using a powerful web framework tailored to Valipat's needs.
This platform allows clients to submit requests for proposals by entering data such as the choice of countries for patent registration, customer representative agents, and translation agents.
Additionally, it automates the generation of client proxies, reducing complex administrative procedures and enabling clients to generate necessary documents in PDF format, which can then be signed and mailed.
The project evolved from a simple web interface into a more complex, long-term initiative. A dedicated project team worked closely with Valipat’s project managers to ensure that both technical and business perspectives were aligned. This close collaboration resulted in a sustainable application capable of integrating new business demands over time.
Specific features of the solution included:
- Facilitating the selection of target countries, customer representative agents, and translation agents.
- Automating the generation of client proxies, simplifying the process for clients.
The results
The collaboration between Valipat and Belighted resulted in several positive outcomes.
The new platform allows clients to effortlessly generate and submit proposals, significantly simplifying the patent validation process. The automation of document generation has further streamlined operations, reducing the time and effort required to complete administrative tasks.
By maintaining close daily interactions with Valipat, Belighted ensured the technical sustainability of the platform while continually integrating new business requirements.
The results were:
- Efficient submission of requests for proposals.
- Simplified and automated processes through the platform.
- A dedicated team aligning technical and business needs.
About
Valipat
Founded in 2008, with a team of 60 employees, Valipat is now a leader in the validation and translation of European patents.Every service provided by Valipat is controlled and monitored via its web platform developed jointly with Belighted. This application, which allows to make the procurement, processing and on-line monitoring of European patent validation orders, simplifies and accelerates the processing of all client files.In the end, the costs of patent holders are reduced by 30 to 50% according to the orders.
Context
The Problem
To simplify and automate the work of its teams, Valipat needed a tool that allows customers to generate online, independently, an estimate for the deposit of their European (EP - European Patent Validation) and international (PCT - Patent Cooperation Treaty) patents.Moreover, Valipat wanted to grow its services by offering its customers to simplify administrative procedures. Indeed, in every country where a patent application is filed, customers are represented by an agent, to whom they have given power of attorney. The documents required for such proxy are specific to each state. The service set up by Valipat, PoA (Power of Attorney), allows the customer to create via the platform the necessary documents by requested state.
The Goals
- Simplify & automate the work of Valipat's team
- Develop a tool to generate online request for proposals
- Simplify administrative procedures
Don't just take our word for it
“Working with Belighted helped us to take advantage of a powerful web framework to build a complete Information System. Our long term relationship helped us to achieve great goals and serve our ambition, thanks to loyal and skilled team.”
The Challenges
Project Management with a corporate
Initially simple web interface, Valipat project was over months built into the long term. Given the diversity of tasks and the business specificity, the client was provided with a dedicated project team. This team is in close contact with the project managers at Valipat and interacts daily with them. It submitted them suggestions and comments to confront the best technical and business perspectives in order to achieve the desired result, reconciled and acceptable to both parties. The methodology allows both technical sustainability of the application and integration of new business demands.
The Results
Belighted created a platform that allows Valipat customers to submit a request for proposal, after the entry of data needed to create the estimate. These data cover three areas: the choice of countries where to register the patent, the choice of the customer representative agent in those countries and the choice of a translation agent (if a translation into the language of the target country is required) .
To automate the generation of client proxies, Belighted has introduced a service that allows the customer to avoid all the complex procedures on its platform by generating the necessary documents to PDF. Once issued, these documents need only to be signed and returned by mail to the agent.