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-  iEdison Organization User Guide  Expand or Collapse    -  Getting Started  Expand or Collapse      -  Creating a Login.gov Account 
    -  Registering Your Organization with iEdison 
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  -  Invention Reports  Expand or Collapse      -  Creating an Invention Report 
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### **1)** Under **Communications**you can find the following:

                  -  **Notifications** – provides access to your full list of notifications. Also allows for search, sorting, and exporting of notifications 
                  - Invention Discussion  – provides access to all open (pending and/or not closed) communications with agencies
                  - Requests  – provides access to all requests. Also allows for searching of requests

### **2)** Under **Submit Report** you can complete the following actions:

                  - Invention  – allows you to submit a new Invention Report
                  - Patent  – allows you to submit a new Patent Report (note: you will need the Invention Report Number to submit a Patent Report using this method)
                  - Utilization  – allows you to submit a new Utilization Report (note: you will need the Invention Report Number to submit a Utilization Report using this method)

### **3)** Under **Search/Manage Report** are links to search for existing reports

                  - Invention  - allows you to search and open existing Invention Reports 
                  - Patent  - allows you to search and open existing Patent Reports
                  - Utilization  - allows you to search and open existing Utilization 
                  - Document  - allows you to search and open documents previously uploaded into iEdison

### **4)** Under **Generate Report** are links for generating Custom and Standard Reports

                  - Custom  – allows you to build your own report from various iEdison data fields
                  - Standard  – allows you to select reports from pre-developed reports

### **5)** The **Bulk Upload** link is for uploading large quantities of Invention, Patent, and/or Utilization Data at one time. *See the Bulk Upload Instruction Manual for additional details on how to use this functionality.*

### **6)** Under **Manage Profiles** are links for managing:

                  - My Profile  – allows you to edit your personal information and manage your email notification preferences
                  - User Profiles  – allows you to manage iEdison user accounts for your organization (admins only)
                  - My Organization Profile  – allows you to edit preferences and information for and about your organization (admins only)

-  **‹** Your Dashboard Explained 
-  iEdison Field Definitions **›** 

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