Inventors and startups
Every raise brings the same question: what do you own?
The usual answer is a count of filings. Then the investor’s check begins: which filings cover the product, which have been searched, and which claims have a measurement behind them. 8Invent works with your founding team so that check starts from a clear map, not from a pile of documents.
What you get
- More than the product you already built. Working sessions with your technical founders usually find candidates beyond the one the company was started on: ways around your own design, nearby uses, and claims a well-funded competitor would want.
- A one-page IP position — every claim labelled by evidence, and the next measurement named and dated. Investors can price a position when they can see exactly what is known and what is not.
- The attorney pack — so the budget you spend with your registered patent attorney goes into drafting and filing, on material that arrives organised.
- A test plan — the cheapest decisive measurement per candidate, which is often the difference between a claim an investor discounts and one they fund.
For developers of any kind of IP
The system is domain-general. Hardware, materials, processes, devices, software with a technical effect, agtech, medtech instruments, cleantech — if your field publishes and files patents, the discovery discipline applies. Some fields carry extra regulatory weight; we screen scope in the first conversation.
Before you pitch anything
Public disclosure before filing can damage patent rights in many countries. Talk to your registered patent attorney before the demo day, the paper, the post. Our engagements are built confidentiality-first for exactly this reason.
Nothing technical before it’s signed.