Prokurio Platform Updates
We update our site weekly!
Below, you’ll find highlights of our major updates.
Check out our development pipeline to see what’s next.
2024 Updates
January 28th Release
IP Forecaster: PCT Workflow Improvements
We’ve introduced several subtle enhancements to our PCT forecasting process. We’ve cleaned up the request process to make selecting your receiving office and ISA easier. We now default to ePCT and have improved the look and feel of our forecast output. Stay tuned – a lot more PCT updates are coming throughout January and February!
January 28th Release
Platform Update: Easier Associate Fee Customization
When linking custom fees to PTO fees, it was hard to find the right fee if a PTO had different fees for entity size and transmission time (like the US). Now, we give you all the information you could ask for – making it easy to link your custom fee to a PTO fee.
January 28th Release
IP Forecaster: Client-specific Fees in Trademark Forecasts
Late last year, we added the ability to have client-specific fees in patent forecasts. We have now brought the same functionality to trademarks, allowing you to configure client-specific fees, discounts, and even client-specific associates.
January 21st Release
IP Forecaster: Anonymize Law Firm Fees
There are times when you want to see which associate was used in a forecast and times when you don’t (like when you send it to a client). You could manually remove the associate names, but that would suck, so we’ve added an Anonymizer to our export. With one click, your exports are scrubbed clean.
January 21st Release
IP Forecaster: Associate Claim Cost Customization
Many international associates charge additional fees based on the number of claims. This week, we’ve made adding and configuring claims-based fees easy. Simply click “Claims-based pricing,” and you can configure the cost for additional sets of claims.
January 21st Release
Strategic Planner: New Chart in the Library
We have added another chart to the library! This latest chart allows you to stack costs by year. You can easily change time periods and add or remove filters to restrict your portfolio items as needed.
January 21st Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Forecast Output
After several “improvements,” our results screen had become a bit of a hot mess. So, we took some time to clean things up. We no longer repeat the currency code a million times and have added subtotals, better column alignment, and a summary of the application details. Bellissima!
January 14th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved PCT Flexibility
You can now set default offices for processing your international applications and customize them as needed when doing a forecast. Want to get a forecast for the US as the receiving office and Korea as the International Search Authority? Now you can!
January 14th Release
Strategic Planner: New Data Table View
Charts are nice, but sometimes you just need the data. This week, we added a table view of costs to our planner page. In February, we will be adding spreadsheet functionality to the planner, making it easy to visualize your data in an MS Excel-like format.
January 14th Release
General: Consolidated Translation Cost Setup
We’ve completed the move of all custom translation costs into the custom fee sidebar menu. Everything you need to customize your translation costs is now in one spot – no more scavenger hunt to configure translation costs!
January 7th Release
IP Forecaster: Translation Optimizer
We now make it easy to evaluate your translation costs and vendor options before running your forecast. Simply select from your list of translation vendors or associates when translations are needed to preview your costs. Once you’ve chosen, create your forecast, and the costs will be included.
January 7th Release
Strategic Planner: Improved Filtering
We are making it easier to fine-tune your portfolio plans. You can now configure your cost plan to show anywhere from 1 year to 20 years’ worth of costs, and you can filter on products. Several additional filters will be added to this feature over the next several weeks.
January 7th Release
Strategic Planner: Save and Reuse Plans
Now that our Strategic Planner functionality is up and running, it’s important to be able to save and share plans. We get things started this week by adding the ability to save and reuse your plans. Simply give your plan a name, save it and you can use it as the basis for unlimited additional planning exercises.
January Product Updates
February 25th Release
IP Forecaster: More Home Page Control
We’re making it easier to manage forecasts right from your home page. In addition to editing and re-running forecasts, you can now delete forecasts right from your home screen. Buh Bye unwanted forecast!
February 25th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Real Time Chat
We’ve introduced an easier-to-use chat feature – that is also less annoying than the previous one. Chat with us during normal US business hours, or leave us a message and we’ll get back to you. Operators are standing by.
February 25th Release
IP Forecaster: Link Law Firm Fees to Multiple PTO Fees
A long time ago, in a land far away, we added the ability to link a law firm fee to a PTO fee so that they appeared together on a forecast. That worked great until clients needed to link a single fee to small, large, and micro-entity USPTO fees. Now, you can connect a single law firm fee to as many PTO fees as you would like, and everything shows up in the right place at the right time.
February 18th Release
IP Forecaster: New PCT National Phase Forecast Wizard
There are some specific types of forecasts that users create regularly, like national phase estimates. We are starting to create dedicated workflows tailored specifically to these requirements – our National Phase Wizard is the first of several. Set your target national phase entry date, select your countries, enter some application details and you are good to go. Fast!
February 18th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Fee Configuration Screens
February 18th Release
IP Forecaster: Receiving Office and ISA combinations
If you do PCT forecasts, you know that your international search authority is tied to your receiving office. Until this release, you were responsible for entering valid combinations of receiving office and ISA. Now, we keep track of all of that. Enter your receiving office and we will make sure you don’t select Burundi as your ISA.
February 11th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Forecast Request Interface
We’ve added a lot of features to IP Forecaster over the last couple of months, so the screens were getting to be a hot mess. No more! We’ve introduced a new interface with tabs for less frequently used, but important features. Now, application details are immediately available and optional fees are just a click away.
February 11th Release
IP Forecaster Update: Simplified Priority Workflow
We added the ability to manage law firm fees for multiple priorities in November, but, as we’ve used it over the last couple of months, we’ve come to hate the way we implemented it. So, we made it 100% more awesome this week. You now have one spot to enter your number of priorities and it will pull together all your associate and PTO costs. Simple. Clean. Done.
February 11th Release
IP Forecaster: New PCT Receiving Office/Translation Capabilities
We now track the languages the various receiving offices allow and monitor your application language to automatically launch the translation optimizer when needed. You can then select your preferred translation source and Prokurio automatically calculates all of the associate and translation costs.
February 4th Release
Platform Update: Improved Fee Schedule Management
We’re making it easier to keep track of your associate/firm fee schedules. You can now track the date you receive or update your fee schedules. Soon, you will also be able to access this data when creating forecasts or processing invoices – ensuring you aren’t using old fee schedules.
February 4th Release
IP Forecaster Update: Improved Application Transmission Options
We’ve made it easier to deal with complex scenarios where you have a mixture of transmission methods. Now, you can easily forecast costs with one transmission method for your international application, and another for your national phase applications.
February 4th Release
IP Forecaster: Dynamic fees
This new feature makes it easy to add ad hoc costs to your forecasts. Want to add a one-time special fee for a forecast? Simply select the cost category, enter a cost and the country to apply it to and you can add any fee to your forecast.
February Product Updates
March 31st Release
Planner Workbench: New Current Year View and Pre-filtering
We’ve made a lot of updates this week to our planner workbench. If you are an attorney in a firm, you will only see your clients when you log in. We’ve also improved the current year view for firms and companies – get a detailed monthly preview of projected spend broken out by all cost categories.
March 31st Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Fee Schedule Management
We’ve made the user interface much more efficient for managing large groups of fees. Filters are now saved, so you always return to where you started, and saving a fee doesn’t take you back to the beginning. Based on informal testing it is about 1 billion times faster.
March 31st Release
IP Forecaster: Preview the Impact of Upcoming PTO Fee Updates
With the EP fee increase taking effect in April, we thought it would be cool to be able to see how the new fees will impact forecasts. Now you can set your application date to a date in the future and the system will use the fees in effect at the time of your projected application date.
March 24th Release
Sneak Peek: Client Planner and Strategic Planner
In April, firms are going to be able to easily help their clients align portfolio activities with their financial goals. Then, in June, companies will have access to a new set of portfolio tools that speed complex financial decisions. Import data from any IPMS, integrate your fee schedules and costs. Add assumptions to historical data and plan future growth. Mike drop.
March 24th Release
IP Forecaster Update: EPC Maintenance Improvements
This week, we’ve taken the time to make our EPC and Unitary maintenance fee handling more robust. You can now adjust your average time to grant for your EP application and everything adjusts automatically from your EP application through to your validation/extension states.
March 24th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Translation Flexibility
We’ve made it easier to incorporate costs from translation vendors into your forecasts. Simply set up the costs for a vendor and access them within the translation optimizer. Compare cost estimates between your vendors and firms and pick the right option for your client.
March 17th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved EP/Unitary User Interface
When you selected the Unitary route, we didn’t provide any visual clue to show you which jurisdictions were selected, until you got to the forecast results. With this update, when you select the Unitary route, we show all the included countries in a dedicated Unitary section – making it easier to know what you are getting in your forecast.
March 17th Release
Until now, if you wanted to set up law firm fees for payment of designation fees or Unitary Opt-in or Opt-out, they had to be created as optional fees that are selected when doing a forecast. We’ve now added the ability to automate these fees, allowing you to create a law firm fee that only applies if the Unitary route or Traditional routes are selected – or if both are selected.
March 17th Release
IP Forecaster: Route Finder Export
When you do a forecast and use Route Finder to look at different cost options, it would be helpful to be able to print or save the results. With this update, you can export the results to PDF – making sharing a whole lot easier!
March 10th Release
IP Forecaster: Global Fee Improvements
Sometimes you want a global fee to not be quite so global – like when you only charge a fee if an international associate performs a service. Now, you can set up a global fee and add a condition that doesn’t include the fee if there isn’t an applicable associate fee in the forecast.
March 10th Release
IP Forecaster: New Default Associate Capability
Even if you have multiple associates in a jurisdiction, you probably have a preferred associate that you use under normal circumstances. We now give you the ability to set your default associate for a jurisdiction. Select Colombia and automatically get your preferred associate. The best part? If you have specific associates connected to clients, those will still be used when you do a forecast for that client.
March 10th Release
IP Forecaster: Output Screen Improvements
We’ve cleaned up the Forecast output screen and have updated the headings to be more meaningful. We’ve also added more detail to the summary at the bottom of the screen.
March 3rd Release
IP Forecaster: New Forecast APIs
Want to launch IP Forecaster within your platform and access forecasts that your users have created? Now you can! With our newest API, your users can launch Prokurio from within your application and create or access saved forecasts from matters (or any interface you want). Our API also handles authentication, so no secondary login is needed. Easy. Seamless.
March 3rd Release
IP Forecaster: New Fee API for Vendors
Prokurio fees are starting to power the IP financial capabilities in several applications, so we’ve developed an API that makes it easier for vendors to retrieve the latest fees whenever needed. This makes it easy to automate the process of regular fee refreshes.
March 3rd Release
IP Forecaster: Translation Improvements
We’ve cleaned up the Forecast request screen and given Translation Optimizer its own tab. We’re also improving access to critical cost details, and now show the cost per word on the forecast output.
March Product Updates
April 21st Release
IP Forecaster: Translation Improvements
With this release, we’ve made it easier to compare translation costs across vendors, and also now give you the flexiblity to specify the number of pages for translation, or the number of words. The foreign firm screen is also simpler, making it easy to choose the desired associate for translation.
April 21st Release
Client Planner: Foundation IP Import
We’ve updated our import functionality to make it easy for Foundation IP clients to import data into Client and Strategic Planner. Additional imports will be rolled out over the coming weeks, with the goal of supporting all major IPMSs.
April 21st Release
IP Forecaster: Simplified Custom Fee Setup
With this release, we’ve made it easier to configure often overlooked fee settings, like timeline position. When you setup a custom fee, Prokurio now evaluates your fee and automatically places it at the right location on the timeline.
April 14th Release
Planner Workbench: User Interface Updates
Based on feedback from our testing community, we’ve organized the filters and other cards within the planner workbench into tabs. Within annual views, we’ve also shifted to show data quarterly rather than on a month-to-month basis, making it easier to line up with budgeting processes.
April 14th Release
IP Forecaster: Private and Shared Forecasts
Until now, all forecasts were automatically visible to all users within a firm or company. With this update, forecasts are private by default. If you want to share your forecast, you can click “Firm Visible” or “Company Visible” to share.
April 14th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Export Functionality
Choice is always a good thing, so we now give you two themes to pick from when exporting your forecasts. We now have a Mono theme, which is black and white, and a Bright theme, which is colorful. We have also added additional detail to exports, like the 30 and 31 month deadline for national stage entry countries.
April 7th Release
Planner Workbench: Add Projected New Filings to Plan
When putting together a budget, it’s important to account for future activity. We took a baby step in that direction with our planner technology, allowing you to replicate what was done in the prior year. Next week, we make it interactive so that you can fine-tune your strategy even further!
April 7th Release
IP Forecaster: Fee Customization Improvementsew Fee API for Vendors
We’ve improved our fee customization interface, making the editing workflow easier, adding the ability to save without exiting, as well as copying in the related PTO fees when you import standard fees. We also have added a duplicate function and we save your position when you are using a filtered list – making the entry of fees much quicker!
April 7th Release
IP Forecaster: Improved Translation Workflow
It was a bit of a hassle to manage translation providers and firms using the translation optimizer tab and foreign firm tab. We’ve made that a lot easier now. The translation optimizer tab allows you to easily see all of your translation options and costs, selection of firm and translation source is done on the Foreign Firm tab. Much simpler!
