The engagement
From the problem to a pack your attorney can use.
The system we run is proprietary, so this page describes the engagement: what happens, what you see, and what you keep. How the system works is a trade secret. You get the full benefit of it in the documents we give you.
The sequence
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Conversation
You tell us the problem area in general terms. We confirm fit, conflicts and scope. General terms only — nothing confidential yet.
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Confidentiality agreement
A mutual NDA is signed before any technical detail changes hands, in either direction.
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Scope and terms
Deliverables, timeline, fees, ownership of outputs, and who your registered patent attorney is (we can introduce one if you don’t have one yet). Outputs created for you are assigned to you.
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Discovery with your inventors
Structured working sessions with your technical people. Your team supplies the domain depth and makes the inventive contributions; our system supplies the questions, the systematic search of the solution space, and the discipline. This collaboration is the engine of the engagement — it is research done with you, not a report done to you.
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Documentation
Each surviving candidate becomes an invention record: the mechanism, a worked embodiment with quantified parameters, the closest public prior work we found, and the stated way the candidate could be shown wrong. Every statement carries an evidence label.
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The attorney pack
The disclosure pack goes to you and, at your direction, to your registered patent attorney — who decides what to file, drafts it, lodges it, and advises on validity. We stay on the technical side of that line.
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The test plan
For each candidate, the cheapest decisive measurement, with pass and fail written before the result. Candidates are for testing; the plan says how.
What makes it different
- The same questions, every time. The system works through a problem in a set way. Finding inventions stops being a matter of luck and becomes a process.
- Documented as it happens. Contribution records support your attorney’s inventorship assessment; dated landscapes support their prior-art work.
- Every statement is labelled. Nothing leaves the work marked as more certain than it is. Your board, your investors and your attorney see the same labels.
What we deliberately leave out
A description of the system itself. Publishing how it works would hand it to every competitor of every client we serve. You see everything it produces for you, and nothing it runs on.