Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for providing electronic searching and analytics of patent and technical data for use in the field of inventions and patents; providing non-downloadable web-based computer software for database management, namely, a system for capturing, storing, and legally safeguarding electronic innovation records, and producing reports to monitor and review innovation activity; providing a database for searching confidential documents; providing a database for publication of technical innovations and inventions and technical disclosures; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for use by engineers, inventors, innovators, product development teams, and others to assist with brainstorming to find, create, compose, and evaluate new ideas, inventions, and solutions using wide-ranging unstructured and structured technical information and data, augmented intelligence methodologies, statistical analysis, structured problem-solving methodologies, TRIZ and ARIZ problem-solving principles and other innovation methods; Providing non-downloadable web-based computer software for creation of reports regarding the valuation and review of invention disclosures; providing non-downloadable web-based computer software for creation of reports regarding the valuation and validity of patent portfolios; providing non-downloadable web-based computer software for assessment of portfolios of patented and patent-pending technologies; Consulting services in the field of intellectual property, namely, providing research, analysis, planning, reporting and information concerning intellectual property and intellectual property rights, providing patent prior art research services, novelty assessment, validity assessment, freedom-to-operate searches, citation analysis, patent mapping, patent and technology landscaping, identification of non-infringing product scopes, patent portfolio analysis, competitive IP intelligence, claim charting, patent to product lineages, patentability and patent claims analyses, and patent portfolio analyses