In-house teams come to us when they need prosecution capacity, an independent second opinion, or a clean handoff of a portfolio — without big-firm overhead or conflict friction. Our attorneys have worked in-house and with in-house teams for decades, and we structure engagements to fit yours.
The economics of drafting have changed. A complete, well-enabled, amendment-ready application no longer has to cost weeks of attorney time — which means the smart posture for most of a portfolio is to capture priority broadly as the roadmap develops, keep your options open, and reserve full prosecution spend for the cases the business actually justifies. We build engagements around that reality: maximize priority, preserve optionality, and defer the expensive and irreversible decisions until a business trigger justifies them.
When your roadmap is moving faster than your filing budget, we help you plant the stake early: broad, well-enabled provisionals and applications that track the product as it changes, drafted to support continuations and amendments later. You decide which inventions earn full prosecution — and because the draft was built downstream-ready from the start, prosecution on the cases you pursue goes faster and cleaner.
We prepare and prosecute applications under your direction and templates when your docket exceeds your team's capacity — per-matter or ongoing, with your naming conventions and reporting cadence. Each application is built amendment-ready and continuation-ready from the first draft, so a case you decide to push later prosecutes efficiently rather than starting over.
Independent review of claim strategy, office-action responses, appeal decisions, or whether a family is still worth its maintenance fees — including whether a family's claims were locked in too early and where continuation or priority-chain options are still open. A fresh set of technically trained eyes, engaged matter-by-matter.
We take assignment of files from prior counsel, rebuild the docket before deadlines come due, and flag the issues a transition tends to surface. How transfers work →
We run invention-capture sessions with your engineers and train inventors on writing useful disclosures — the approach behind our book Protecting Innovation: The Corporate Innovator's Guide to Patents, our disclosure email course, and the Completing an Invention Disclosure and Selecting a Product Name courses at protectivityinfo.com.
Chain-of-title cleanup, acquired-portfolio audits, and transaction support coordinated with your corporate counsel.
You work directly with the responsible attorney. We manage overhead deliberately, provide estimates before work begins, and carry fewer conflicts than full-service firms.
Filing broadly only pays if the disclosures hold up. We draft and prosecute with the downstream in mind — giving consideration to scrutiny in due diligence, licensing, and enforcement — so a maximized priority position is a defensible one, not a stack of filings that collapse when they are finally tested.
Two of our attorneys have served as in-house IP counsel themselves, so we understand the budgets, reporting lines, and business pressures you answer to. As an IP boutique, we keep overhead and staffing lean, which lets us deliver predictable value on the cost-sensitive, high-volume work a corporate docket demands. Our team learns your portfolio and stays responsive as priorities shift, and because well-informed inventors make for stronger, more efficient filings, we put practical references directly in your inventors' hands.
Share scope, technology, timeline, and budget through a short structured form, and we will respond with a tailored proposal — typically within one to two business days.
Tell us what your docket needs. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
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