Scope
The boundary, in plain words.
We are an invention-development service. We do technical discovery with your inventors, document invention candidates, map public literature and patent documents as technical research, prepare disclosure material for your registered patent attorney, and design first measurements.
We are not patent attorneys or lawyers, and this is a line we hold deliberately:
We do
Structured discovery with your technical team
Your registered patent attorney does
Advises on patentability, validity and infringement
We do
Invention records and contribution records
Your registered patent attorney does
Assesses inventorship and entitlement
We do
Dated technical landscapes (technical research)
Your registered patent attorney does
Conducts and interprets formal patent searches
We do
Attorney-ready disclosure packs, stamped “verification required”
Your registered patent attorney does
Drafts specifications and claims
We do
Test plans with pass/fail written in advance
Your registered patent attorney does
Lodges, prosecutes and maintains applications
We don’t hold ourselves out as patent attorneys, we don’t use the title, and we structure every engagement so the legal judgments are made by those entitled to make them. If a question in a session edges toward legal advice, our answer is the same every time: that one goes to your attorney, and we’ll have the material ready for them.
Other commitments
We screen engagements against export-control and sanctions rules; we decline work outside our remit (including weapons and clinical or diagnostic claims); and we keep sensitive fields’ obligations (defence, dual-use) on their own channels with specialist advisers.