- Own the system of record outright, files, deadlines and strategy answer to the firm, not an editor.
- Shape it to how the practice actually works, rather than adopting someone else's standard.
- Never pay rent for access to your own matters, and never fear a licence being withdrawn.
- Build what you imagine, on a core that is already yours to extend.
F-00Foundation IPMS
A shared foundation, built in the open.
Foundation IPMS is the open core at the centre of the collective, an intellectual-property management system that belongs to the profession, not to a vendor. It takes the discipline of open source and the rigour of open design, and points them at one goal: tools that IP firms own, together.
01What it is
Not a product you license. A foundation you hold in common.
An IPMS, an intellectual-property management system, is the system of record a practice runs on: portfolios, deadlines, dossiers and renewals, the chain of work that holds a firm's value together.
Foundation IPMS makes that core open. Any firm in the collective can read it, run it, audit it and extend it, and no editor ever sits between a firm and its own data. It is the common ground the manifesto stands on, and the engine beneath Arkyan, Renewr and the practices that adopt them.
An IPMS was never complex. It was just expensive to own.
01
A simple system at heart
Records, dates, documents, reminders. The logic of IP management is well understood, an IPMS is not, in itself, a complex piece of software.
02
Once a capital project
It used to demand massive upfront capex, years of bespoke development, heavy licences, dedicated infrastructure. So firms rented from vendors instead of owning. That barrier is gone.
03
Maintenance, not capex
It isn't free: a living system still needs upkeep, hosting, security, the steady work of keeping it current. But that is a running cost a firm controls, not a vendor toll it can't escape.
What used to cost a subscription forever now costs upkeep.
Then
Years of work, a budget out of reach
Building an IPMS from scratch meant a large team and a multi-year project, far beyond a single firm. So firms rented instead, and that build cost came straight back as a subscription that never stops.
Build effort2 to 5 years
Capability & modularitylow
Self-hostlow, and falling
Firm influencelow
You paysubscription, forever
Now
Weeks of work, a cost you control
With AI in the loop and an open foundation to build on, the same system takes a small team weeks. The price collapses from a forever subscription to the upkeep of a tool you own.
Build effortmonths to a year
Capability & modularitymaxed
Self-hosthigh, and rising
Firm influencehigh
You paymaintenance only
02Built on two philosophies
Open source meets open design.
01
Open source
The code is built and kept in the open. Any firm can read it, run it on its own infrastructure, audit exactly what it does, and extend it, no black box, no licence to revoke, no vendor holding the keys to your practice.
02
Open design
Workflows, data models and interfaces are shaped with the profession, not behind closed doors. The people who do IP work design the tool that does it, so the system fits the practice, instead of the practice bending to fit the system.
03
Held in common
One foundation every firm builds on and gives back to. What one practice improves, the whole field inherits, and because the core is shared, no single owner can ever hold it, or the firms that depend on it, hostage.
03Modular by design
Build the modules your practice actually needs.
The open core is only the start. Around it, any IP attorney can build tailor-made modules, shaped to a specific client, a niche workflow, or a way of working no off-the-shelf tool would ever ship.
Foundation IPMS / OverviewDeadlines / EP 3 921 0444 registers syncedSearch titles, clients…
Good morning, Camille.
9 deadlines need attention this month.
1,284
live titles
9
deadlines under 30 d
6
actions to validate
4
registers synced
Imminent deadlinesnext 30 days
WO 2024/118 442
National-phase entry
EP 3 921 044
Renewal · annuity year 6
FR 22 1045 887
Trademark renewal · 10-year
US 18/442 901
Office-action response
EP 3 921 044 · Novara Holdings
Renewal · annuity year 6
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Application filed
2019-03-14
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Patent granted
2022-11-09
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Annuity year 5 paid
2025-03-31
6
Annuity year 6 due
2026-06-11 · in 12 days
7
Annuity year 7
2027-06-11
EPO register · live
Legal status, dates and fees retrieved straight from the EPO register. Last checked 2 min ago.
HolderNovara Holdings
JurisdictionEP (EPC)
Fee, year 6€ 1,065
ResponsibleCamille M.
The open core. Portfolio, deadlines, clients, billing and more, with legal status pulled live from the patent-office registers.
Your modules / Watch & OpposeFilter watches…
Custom module · built on Foundation IPMS
Trademark watch & oppose.
A board this firm built for its own watching service: its stages, its rules.
Watching12
"NOVARA" · class 9
watch #2231
"NOVA-RING" · class 42
watch #2240
Flagged3
conflict"NOVARO" filing · EUIPO
EUTM 018 994 210
Opposing2
deadline 14 dOpposition vs "NOVARU"
case OPP-0471
Resolved28
"NOVA-RA" withdrawn
won · 2026-03
A module the firm built itself. Tailored to how this practice runs its watching service, not a vendor's idea of it.
the firm's stack
Foundation IPMScore features
modulemodule+
IP officesEPO · INPI · WIPO
Applicantsyour clients
Your teamattorneys & paralegals
Third-party dataregisters · watch
Anything else+ endless
Core features and the firm's own modules, one stack. Grouped on the Foundation, they wire into the IP offices, the applicants, the firm's attorneys and paralegals, or any third-party database, for tailored benefits across the whole ecosystem.
04Who it serves
For IP attorneys, and the clients who trust them.
- Confidentiality kept in-house, on infrastructure the firm controls, not on a third party's servers.
- Continuity that doesn't depend on a vendor's survival, pricing whim or acquisition.
- Lower cost over time, with no licence margin quietly passed down the chain.
- Portability by default, a portfolio is never held hostage to a tool.
05How it stays open
Open is a commitment, not a label.
Four principles keep the foundation a commons, so "open" means the same thing in five years as it does today.
An open licence
The core ships under a licence that guarantees the right to use, study, run and modify it, permanently, for every firm in the collective.
An open roadmap
What gets built next is decided in the open, with the firms who use it. Priorities are set by the profession, not by a vendor's sales targets.
Open data, always
Every record can be exported, in full, at any moment, in formats a firm can actually use. Lock-in is structurally impossible.
No single owner
The foundation is stewarded by the collective, not owned by one company. No acquisition can put the field's tools behind a gate.
06The return
Joining returns more than it costs.
Subscribing to a tool is a cost that compounds and a dependence that deepens. Joining the Foundation is an investment that pays back, in money and in everything money cannot buy.
Dimension
Subscribe to a tool
Join the Foundation
Cost over time
A per-seat licence that rises at every renewal.
A shared build, then maintenance you control.
Your data
Lives on the vendor's servers, under its terms.
Stays on infrastructure your firm owns.
Roadmap
Set by the vendor's priorities and sales targets.
Set with the collective, in the open.
Fit to your practice
Whatever the product happens to ship.
Your own modules, tailored to how you work.
Leaving
Switching is costly, slow and risky.
Full export, always. Nothing held hostage.
If the vendor changes
Price hikes, acquisition, or a sunset notice.
The collective, and the core, carry on.
The financial return is concrete: no compounding licence fees, development cost amortised across the whole collective, and a cost base a firm actually controls. The return that matters most never appears on an invoice. It is sovereignty, continuity, differentiation, and the trust of clients who know their IP answers to no one else.
Build on the foundation
Make the open core your own.
Foundation IPMS is there for any IP firm ready to own its system of record instead of renting it. Join the collective and help steward the common ground.