How It Works

Our role is simple: Make it easier for companies to pay you fairly than to steal your idea. Ideas Union exists to give you peace of mind in your commercial transactions. We enable you to trust that your customers, clients and commercial partners will pay you as expected for the ideas you bring to the table.  

Ideas Union is funded by thousands of members, giving us the resources to take on large companies or even government departments, with confidence. We pursue civil action for loss, damages, breach of confidence and more. And if a court finds that theft or related crimes occurred, the matter is referred to police; meaning criminal prosecution is possible. (Big companies usually settle before court because they don’t want the risk, the publicity, or the precedent.)

How does Comcept registration work?

A Comcept™ is any commercially valuable idea — something a company would normally pay for, such as:

• A marketing or brand positioning idea

• A logistics or engineering improvement

• An HR solution that saves them money

• A product tweak or new service concept

• A system upgrade 

In fact anything that makes business more profitable. It doesn’t need to be patentable. It only needs to be something the company hasn't already thought of, that they would benefit from, and should therefore pay to use.

You register the Comcept™ and receive a registration number. Your Comcept™ file then needs to be completed by saving all relevant material produced on your journey to commercialisation – all versions, white board diagrams, sketches, notes, and presentations, emails, Zoom or Teams recordings and transcripts, phone calls etc. The richer the evidence trail, the stronger is your protection, your 'proof of authorship' and your case for payment.

Ideas Union is built by creative professionals who’ve had their work stolen before. We’re global because idea theft is global - an idea told in Sydney could be commercialised in Singapore or Swansea.

As a member, you can pitch your Comcept™ knowing that:

• Your ownership is documented

• Your evidence is securely stored

• Your legal protection is activated

Companies benefit too — they know they can safely negotiate and legally use
your idea once a deal is struck (and confirmed in writing).

When a client or potential client, partner etc breaches your NDA agreement and one of your Comcepts or part thereof is used without payment, we recommend you consider the following:

1.        Seek a commercial arrangement with the offending party

At this stage, valuations, pricing, and payment arrangements for Comcept use are determined solely between you and the other party. Ideas Union does not participate in these commercial negotiations.

2.        Notify us, we Assess the Case, then we Act

If a company uses your Comcept™ without paying you, we ask three basic questions:

1. Is this theft? Can we show the idea was yours and they used it after being told it was confidential?

2. Can we win? Is the evidence clear and legally strong?

3. Can they pay? Does the company have the resources to satisfy damages?

If the answer is YES to all three, we act, ruthlessly.

We are funded by thousands of members, giving us the resources to take on large companies or even government departments, with confidence.

We pursue civil action for loss, damages, breach of confidence and more. And if a court finds that theft or related crimes occurred, the matter is referred to police; meaning criminal prosecution is possible. (Big companies usually settle before court because they don’t want the risk, the publicity, or the precedent.)