Questions
Questions people ask.
Are you patent attorneys?
No. We are not patent attorneys and we do not provide legal services. In Australia, preparing patent documents for others and advising on validity or infringement is work the law reserves for registered patent attorneys (and legal practitioners in some cases). We keep to the technical side so you get the legal side from someone entitled to give it. We work with your attorney, and can introduce you to one.
Will you draft or file our patent application?
No — your registered patent attorney does that. We prepare the disclosure pack that makes their drafting faster and better grounded. The pack is stamped “verification required” because the attorney verifies everything before anything is filed.
Does an engagement give us a patent?
Patent offices decide what is granted. We don’t guarantee that any application is filed, granted or enforced. What you get is documented candidates, a map of the public work around them, and a plan to test them.
Who is the inventor on anything that gets filed?
Your people. An inventor must be a natural person, and the inventors are those of your team who make the inventive contributions. Our sessions are structured around your technical people for exactly this reason, and we keep contribution records so your attorney can assess inventorship.
How does your system work?
It is a private, structured way of finding inventions, and it is a trade secret. We describe what it produces, not how it runs. You receive every document in full. The method stays ours. That is also why your confidential information stays with us.
Where does our confidential information go?
Into the engagement and nowhere else. A mutual NDA comes before any technical detail. Your unfiled information is not sent to outside AI services, and we work one engagement at a time within a field to keep conflicts clean.
Can we publish or pitch what comes out of a session?
After your attorney says so. Public disclosure before filing can damage rights in many countries, so the sequence is: attorney first, filing where warranted, then the announcement.
Do you take equity or royalties?
The fee is agreed for each engagement and written into the terms before work starts. We do not publish prices until that is settled.
What results have you delivered for clients?
We are taking our first clients, and we show our own record rather than borrowing anyone else’s. The evidence page is published only once its conditions are met. We don’t guarantee a result for a client.
Do you work outside Australia?
The discovery work travels; the filing rules differ by country. Your local registered patent attorney or agent handles filings in each jurisdiction.