Funded startups come to us with three problems at once: investors expect an IP position they can verify, the product is changing faster than a traditional filing program can follow, and every dollar spent on legal work is a dollar not spent on engineering. We build IP strategies around all three — capturing priority early and broadly, keeping spend proportional to the stage you are at, and making sure what you file will hold up when a diligence team finally reads it.
Our attorneys are engineers first, and we have worked with venture-backed companies from pre-seed name clearance through acquisition diligence. You work directly with the responsible attorney, get estimates before work begins, and never pay big-firm overhead for startup-stage work.
Rebranding after launch is expensive; rebranding after a funding announcement is worse. We run trademark searches and availability opinions on company and product names before you commit, then file U.S. and international applications to lock the name down as you grow.
The goal at seed and Series A is rarely a granted patent — it is a defensible priority date. We draft broad, well-enabled provisional applications that track your roadmap as it changes, so you preserve your options now and reserve full prosecution spend for the inventions the business ultimately justifies.
Filings sequenced around your actual milestones — demo days, launches, publications, and raises — so nothing you disclose becomes prior art against you. We plan utility, design, and PCT filings around where the money and markets are going, not a one-size-fits-all schedule.
Investors' counsel will check chain of title, inventor assignments, and whether your claims actually cover the product. We build portfolios with that review in mind — and we perform IP due diligence ourselves, so we know exactly what the other side will look for.
Before you commit capital to manufacturing or a market entry, right-to-use searches and opinions identify third-party patents that could become a problem — while you still have room to design around them.
Not everything belongs in a patent application. We help you decide what to file and what to keep as a trade secret, and support confidentiality agreements, IP assignment hygiene for founders and early employees, and copyright registration for key assets.
Flat-fee and estimated engagements, direct attorney access, and no leverage-model overhead. As your portfolio and team grow, the same attorneys scale with you — several of us have also served as and alongside in-house IP counsel.
Filing early only pays if the filings hold up. A provisional that does not enable what you later claim, or an assignment chain with a gap in it, gets found — usually during the diligence for your next round, at the worst possible time. We draft with that downstream scrutiny in mind, so the IP position you present to investors is one their counsel can confirm rather than one you have to explain away.
If you are inheriting filings from a prior firm or from a founder's pre-incorporation work, we can take over the docket and clean up the record — here is how transfers work.
Tell us where your company is and what the next milestone looks like. We will tell you honestly what IP work that stage actually justifies.
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