Darwin Suite products

Darwin Suite comprises five web systems.

Darwin Ignite is the IP management system for those who manage IP cases, whether service providers such as agents, attorneys and law firms or in-house teams that run their own portfolio. It covers the portfolio, entities, court cases, watches, publications, viabilities, incoming and outgoing documents, deadlines, reports and a performance dashboard. Darwin Lightbox is an IP consultation and annotation system (IPCAS) that supports the interaction and information sharing between IP portfolio owners and the service providers who manage their cases.

Darwin Axiom uses artificial intelligence to analyse, review and produce IP and legal documents, with every answer citing its source, for agents, lawyers, in-house teams and brand owners alike. Darwin GSE, the Graphical Search Engine, uses artificial intelligence to search trade marks, logos and slogans by visual, phonetic, conceptual and semantic similarity, for clearance, viability and monitoring. Darwin Genius screens new concepts for originality and registrability while they are still being created.

Alongside these, Darwin 5.1 is Techframe's established client-server IP management system, still used by many firms, and it can work with the web systems. Every system shares the same sign-on and account, and you can move between those your account uses from the Systems switcher in the user menu.

Yes. Darwin Suite is designed so that one account, with one team, can use several systems, and so that one user can belong to several accounts. To move between systems, open the user menu and use the Systems switcher; you stay signed in, and the same account, team, roles, billing, email sending accounts and AI configuration apply.

Each system is subscribed separately, so the systems available to your account depend on what its administrators have chosen in Subscriptions. If you open a system for which your account has no subscription, you are enrolled in it as a Reader, with read-only access, and the account's administrators are informed so that they can decide what to do.

Separately, the Accounts switcher in the same user menu lets you change the account you are working in, for example if you work for more than one firm, if a portfolio owner deals with several service providers, or if a provider serves several clients in Lightbox. The account you select determines all the data you see, and nothing from one account is visible while you are working in another. Your personal details, language and password belong to you as a user and follow you across every system and account.

Darwin 5.1 is Techframe's established client-server IP management system, installed and used by many firms for their daily work long before the web systems of Darwin Suite existed. It remains in use, and a firm that runs Darwin 5.1 does not have to abandon it to benefit from the suite: it can keep its existing system and add web systems alongside it. Darwin Lightbox, in fact, was first offered to Darwin 5.1 customers, so that their clients could consult and annotate their portfolios on the web; depending on the provider's configuration, Lightbox can be fed from Darwin 5.1 in the same way as from Darwin Ignite, and the Brand Owner plan of Lightbox includes an option for integration with Darwin 5.1 or Darwin Ignite.

For firms that choose to move their work to Darwin Ignite, the path has been prepared: the Upload portfolio wizards and the spreadsheet loader bring cases into an Ignite account, and the OIL document generator converts Darwin 5.1 letter templates automatically, using over 650 known placeholder mappings and marking in red anything it cannot resolve so that you can finish it by hand. If you are a Darwin 5.1 customer considering the suite, the sales team can explain the options that suit your firm.

The interface of Darwin Suite is available in six languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Each user chooses their own language in Profile, under Personal Account, so colleagues on the same account can each work in the language they prefer, and the choice applies in every system of the suite. The language you choose changes the menus, screens, messages and explanations, including the plain-language help shown beside dashboard headings and the content of the Help Centre. The data you record, such as case titles, descriptions and annotations, stays as it was written.

Beyond the interface, the suite is built for multilingual work. In Darwin Ignite, letter templates are kept per language and the document generator always takes the language of the recipient into account when it proposes a template, so a client receives correspondence in their own language, with dates written out in full in that language.

When an incoming document is registered, the summary is produced in the reader's language whatever language the original was written in, while a drafted reply follows the language of the document being answered. Translations of new template descriptions are also prepared with the account's own AI configuration.