Apiges Watch, in one sentence
Daily watching of your trademark, patent and domain portfolio in the official bulletins, with incidents, deadlines and alerts. In the cloud, nothing to install, from 39.95 €/month.
Comparison
What does Apiges Pro have that Apiges Watch does not?
Apiges Watch focuses on watching your trademark portfolio and keeping its deadlines under control. Apiges Pro is Grupo 10's complete management software for IP firms and departments, in use since 1990: every type of right, the full prosecution of each file, correspondence, document management, quotes and invoicing. This is what changes when you step up.
Apiges Pro, in one sentence
Grupo 10's complete management software for IP firms and departments: every type of right, full prosecution, correspondence, document management, quotes and invoicing. Tailored pricing.
Feature by feature
| Capability | Apiges Watch | Apiges Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Rights managed | Trademarks, patents and domain names: watching and portfolio control. | Trademarks, patents, utility models, designs, domain names, copyright, contracts, grants… Ready for international trademarks (Madrid system) and PCT patents. |
| Files and users | Up to 1,500 files and 5 users, depending on the plan. | Unlimited files and users, with profiles, permissions, signatures and work teams. |
| Official bulletin watching | Phonetic and word-mark similarities with the Apiges engine; incidents on your own files and automatic file updates from the bulletin. | The same engine and the same bulletin updates, plus figurative and invention similarities, domain alerts and per-client custom notices. |
| Prior-right searches | Trademark locator across the covered official registers. | Info10, prior-right searches across multiple countries; Image Pro, figurative search; searches with the Apiges engine on TMview (EUIPO) and Espacenet (EPO); and direct access to each file's official record at its office (OEPM, EUIPO, WIPO…). |
| Prosecution and acts | Acts published in the bulletin are posted to the file and its status is recalculated. | Management of every act in a file's life (trademarks, patents, designs, supplementary protection certificates), with specific adaptations for over 30 jurisdictions across Europe, Latin America and the United States. |
| Deadlines and tasks | Renewal and declaration of use calculated by country, with tasks and reminders. | Full workflow: each country's deadlines and tasks are generated automatically for every act; upcoming-task calendar, detailed lists and a customisable notice system. |
| Clients and contacts | Clients with an internal reference and a notification email. | Full CRM: clients, intermediaries, agents, owners, addresses and powers of attorney; profitability by client, country, agent or file. |
| Correspondence | Client emails with templates, your logo and your mailbox. | Automatic letters and emails with variables, attachments and custom texts, plus assisted filling of the official OEPM, EUIPO, WIPO and EPO forms… |
| Document management | — Not included | A document folder per client, file and invoice that fills itself with every letter, email or invoice sent; on your server or in the cloud. |
| Quotes and invoicing | — Not included | Complete financial management: quote → charge order → invoice; multi-company and multi-currency; renewal fee schedules, official fee payments, received invoices, time-based billing and payment tracking. |
| Reports | Portfolio and watch analytics and metrics. | Many preconfigured reports plus user-defined custom reports with calculated fields, exportable to PDF, Excel and Word. |
| Web access for your clients | — Not included | A web portal linked to Apiges Pro where your clients check their files and documents, with data updated almost in real time. |
| Import and integrations | Portfolio import from Excel or CSV. | Import from Excel and from TMview (EUIPO); an API for integrations; IntrApiges to connect two installations and sync data. |
| Where it runs | In the cloud, from the browser, nothing to install. | On your own Windows server or on Apiges Pro in the Cloud (Azure), with remote access. |
When to move up to Apiges Pro?
- Your portfolio exceeds 1,500 files or you need more users than the largest plan includes.
- You prosecute files (filings, oppositions, renewals and other acts) across several jurisdictions and want each country's task workflow.
- You need to quote and invoice your clients from the same tool, with official fees, fee schedules and payment tracking.
- You want integrated document management and a web portal where your clients check their files.
Moving to Apiges Pro does not mean starting over: your portfolio comes with you (export from Apiges Watch, import into Apiges Pro) and you stay with the same provider. Tell us about your case and we will prepare a tailored proposal.
Shall we talk about your case?
Tell us what you manage and how many files you have: we will tell you whether Apiges Watch is enough or Apiges Pro suits you better, and prepare a tailored proposal.
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