For a startup, IP has one job: make the company more fundable and more valuable without burning runway. That means spending on the filings that move diligence and skipping the ones that don't. This is a strategy conversation before it's a drafting exercise.
Provisional-first, budget-aware
A well-drafted provisional buys you a 12-month priority date and time to see which way the product goes – at a fraction of a full application's cost. We size the filing to your runway and your roadmap, not to a form template.
Freedom-to-operate before you raise
Nothing kills momentum like discovering, mid-diligence, that your core feature may infringe. A targeted FTO before a launch or a raise turns "we think we're clear" into something you can defend to a board.
The inventorship and assignment cleanup
The single most common IP problem in diligence: inventions that were never properly assigned to the company, or inventors named wrong. It's cheap to fix early and expensive to fix under a term sheet. We get your chain of title clean before anyone looks.
Typical trigger: "We're raising and the data room needs an IP section," or "A term sheet is contingent on IP diligence." Green-lighting that is exactly what this work is for.
What we handle
- Provisional and non-provisional utility patents on a startup budget
- Freedom-to-operate before launch and before a raise
- Inventorship analysis and assignment cleanup for the data room
- IP narrative and positioning for pitch decks and diligence
- Continuation strategy that grows with the product