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Inventive IP & Patent is an intellectual property firm for technology companies, life science innovators, and founders who need counsel that actually understands what they have built - not just how to file a form about it.
// What we do
Six disciplines, all within intellectual property. Every attorney here was hired for technical depth first and legal skill second - because real IP protection starts with understanding the invention.
From provisional application through grant - we draft claims that hold up, navigate USPTO examination, and respond to office actions with technical precision.
Clearance searches, application strategy, and prosecution across classes - plus monitoring and enforcement to keep your brand protected as it grows.
We map your innovation pipeline to a filing strategy that builds defensible value - aligning IP spend with business goals rather than chasing coverage for coverage's sake.
Negotiating and structuring IP licenses, technology transfer agreements, and joint-development deals that protect your leverage at every stage.
Identifying, documenting, and defending the confidential assets that do not make it to the patent register - often the most valuable IP a company owns.
Registration, licensing, and enforcement for software, creative works, technical documentation, and the growing category of AI-generated and AI-assisted content.
// The firm
Inventive IP was founded by practitioners who spent years watching technically sophisticated inventions get poorly protected - not because the attorneys were inattentive, but because they did not understand what the technology actually did.
We hire attorneys with real technical backgrounds, keep the practice focused entirely on IP, and hold ourselves to the standard that our clients hold their own engineers to: precision matters.
Meet the teamOur attorneys hold engineering and science degrees alongside law licenses. We read the prior art, understand the claims, and draft accordingly - not vice versa.
IP strategy that is disconnected from what you are actually building creates cost without protection. We integrate with product and engineering cycles from day one.
Flat-fee prosecution engagements, portfolio retainers, or hourly for discrete matters - always quoted plainly before work begins, with no surprise invoices.
Whether you are filing your first provisional or managing a thousand-patent portfolio, the quality of analysis and attention does not change with the size of the account.
// Our attorneys
Every attorney at Inventive IP holds a technical degree alongside their J.D. - because that combination is not a differentiator here, it is a requirement.
Founding Partner - Patent Law
J.D. / M.S. Electrical Engineering
Led prosecution for semiconductor and wireless clients at two major firms before founding Inventive IP to build something more technically focused.
Partner - Trademark and Brand IP
J.D. / B.S. Computer Science
Manages domestic and international trademark portfolios for technology brands and consumer-facing companies navigating multi-class registration challenges.
Senior Associate - Biotech and Chemistry
J.D. / Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
Prosecutes life science and pharmaceutical patents, with deep fluency in composition-of-matter claims and post-grant proceedings before the PTAB.
Associate - Software and AI Patent
J.D. / B.S. Computer Science
Focuses on software patent eligibility strategy and the evolving landscape of AI-inventorship and AI-assisted innovation disclosure.
// How we work
A disciplined workflow - built around getting claims that actually hold up, not just getting them granted.
We start by understanding what you have built, what is already out there, and where the competitive space is most contested.
Before a word of application prose is drafted, we map the claim architecture - independent claims designed for breadth, dependents for fallback.
We file, respond, and advance with technical precision. Every office action response is a strategic document, not a form reply.
We track maintenance deadlines, flag portfolio drift, and advise on pruning versus continuation as the competitive landscape shifts around you.
// Client voices
They read our actual codebase before drafting the application. The claims they wrote were genuinely novel - not generic "computer-implemented method" boilerplate.
Our previous firm filed 40 patents. Inventive IP helped us figure out which 12 actually mattered and built a continuation strategy around those.
When a competitor launched a product that copied our core mechanism, they had already set up the claims we needed to enforce. It was not an accident.
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// Insights
// FAQ
The questions most clients and inventors have before getting started. If yours is not here, a short call will answer it.
From filing a non-provisional application, examination typically runs 18 to 36 months for most technology areas, though that varies considerably by art unit and claim complexity. Prioritized examination (Track One) can reduce that to six to twelve months for an additional fee. We give clients a realistic timeline - not an optimistic one - at the outset.
A provisional establishes a priority date and gives you 12 months to file the non-provisional (the real application) without examination. It is a useful tool for early disclosure and investor conversations, but it is not a substitute for a well-drafted non-provisional. We advise on when a provisional adds value and when it just delays the clock.
Yes, though the eligibility analysis under Alice and its progeny requires careful claim architecture. The key is grounding the claims in a specific technical improvement to computer functionality, not merely an abstract idea implemented on generic hardware. Our software practice is built around navigating this exactly.
Yes. Startups often have the most to gain from early filing strategy, and the most to lose from poorly drafted early applications that limit later claim scope. We offer structured startup engagements - clear scope, flat-fee options, and integration with your fundraising timeline.
A full clearance search covers federal registers, state registers, and common-law use databases, analyzed across the relevant classes and phonetic/visual confusability. We provide a written opinion on risk, not just a hit report. Clearance is one of the highest-leverage investments you can make before committing to a brand.
// Get started
The first consultation is free - a direct conversation about your technology, your competitive position, and what a well-designed IP strategy actually looks like. No sales pitch, no boilerplate scope.