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title: Proceed with a Legal Invention Disclosure request
description: Once an application for a Legal Invention Disclosure request is complete and has been approved, approve the application to proceed for review by an outside counsel.
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# Proceed with a Legal Invention Disclosure request

Once an application for a Legal Invention Disclosure request is complete and has been approved, approve the application to proceed for review by an outside counsel.

## Before you begin

A legal matter related to the request with which an outside counsel is associated must exist.

Role required: sn\_lg\_ip.patent\_fulfiller

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Legal Counsel Center**.

2.  Select the List icon \(\[Omitted image "lsd-lcc-list-icon.png"\] Alt text: List icon\) from the primary navigation and in the Legal Requests section of the **Lists** menu, select **All**.

3.  Open the Legal Invention Disclosure request.

4.  Select the **Legal Matters** tab.

5.  Open the matter associated with the request.

6.  Select **Proceed with application**.


## Result

A matter task named "Proceed with application" is generated and can be viewed in the Tasks tab. The State is updated to Work in Progress and the Application status is updated to Proceed with application.

If an optional reward to the inventor at the Proceed with application stage has been set up, it is processed and sent to the inventor. When a rewarding task is generated, the task is sent to the patent fulfiller for approval. After the approval, the information is sent to the payroll team for processing the reward.

## What to do next

Once you have associated the outside counsel to a legal matter send an email with the matter details to the outside counsel. For more information, see [Provide Legal Invention Disclosure request information to an outside counsel](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-invention-disclosure/idf-provide-info-outside-counsel.md).

**Parent Topic:**[Using the Legal Invention Disclosure](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-invention-disclosure/use-legal-invention-disclosure.md)