Patent attorneys for deep-tech companies
Large patent portfolios, built by a patent attorney who learns your technology and business first.
Active Knowledge drafts and prosecutes U.S. patent portfolios of 10 to 200 applications for venture-backed technology companies. We invest all the time it takes to understand your technology and your business, because the deeper our understanding, the stronger and broader the portfolio we build.
120+U.S. non-provisional applications drafted for UnifabriX in about 2.5 years
10 to 200applications per portfolio
4 fieldsAI, hardware, software, and medical devices
Why Active Knowledge
A Patent Boutique Built for Large Portfolios
Large-Portfolio Expertise
We plan the families, the scope of each application, and the filing order, so the portfolio as a whole protects your products and supports licensing and M&A value.
We Learn Your Technology and Your Business
We invest all the time it takes to become fluent in your technology. The deeper our understanding, the more we can protect.
Brainstorming and Invention Enrichment
Brainstorming is our specialty. With your CTO and/or your lead inventors, we develop each idea into a broader and stronger set of inventions.
The Patent Attorney Does the Thinking
AI tools handle the mechanical work. Your patent attorney spends the time on what creates value: understanding, brainstorming, strategy, and claims.
Your Part-Time In-House IP Department
Our professionals can operate as your in-house IP department, from invention harvesting to board meetings, negotiations, and training.
Learn first
We Don't Draft Complete Non-Provisional Applications Until We're Fluent in Your Technology
Before drafting, we study your architecture, your products, and the problems your engineers solve. We learn your business model and where your company's value is expected to come from. We get to know your people, work from your office when it helps, and stay available for discussions.
Need a provisional application fast? We can file one as soon as we understand the core invention, and build the full portfolio as our understanding deepens.
Brainstorming and enrichment
From One Idea to a Protected Territory
Inventions rarely arrive fully formed. Often, an engineer's idea covers one implementation of a much broader concept.
Brainstorming is our specialty. With your CTO and/or your lead inventors, we explore alternative implementations, extensions, and future product directions, and turn each idea into a broader and stronger set of inventions.
The result is a portfolio of patent families that build on each other, instead of isolated applications.
In-house IP department
Your Part-Time In-House IP Department
Active Knowledge professionals can operate as your part-time in-house IP department. You get senior IP leadership and hands-on patent work, without building a full internal team.
We are highly experienced in all patent-related operations, and we are available when you need us, including at your offices when appropriate.
- Invention harvesting
- Brainstorming and invention enrichment
- Design-around and competitor blocking
- Business negotiations related to patents
- Board meeting preparation on patent topics
- Large portfolios for enforcement and licensing
- Patent awareness training for your organization
- Working from your offices when appropriate
AI and the patent attorney
Modern Tools, Senior Judgment
We use AI tools for the mechanical parts of patent work. This frees your patent attorney for what AI cannot do well. Every application is drafted and reviewed by a patent attorney.
AI tools: the mechanical work
- Consistency checks
- Terminology control
- Formatting
- Proofreading
Your patent attorney: the thinking
- Understanding your technology and business
- Brainstorming with your inventors
- Structuring the portfolio
- Crafting every claim
How we work
How an Engagement Runs
- 1Fit CallYour company, technology, and goals
- 2LearnUntil you confirm we understand
- 3Brainstorm and PlanFamilies, priorities, filing order
- 4SearchBefore every filing
- 5DraftClaims first
- 6File and ProsecuteThrough allowance
- 7Support GrowthFinancing and M&A diligence
Services
What We Do
Fields: AI and machine learning, AI hardware, computer hardware and interconnects, software, telecommunications, and medical devices.
Fees and guarantee
Clear Fees, and We Stand Behind Our Work
Fixed fee or hourly, as you prefer. We agree on the fee structure before work starts. Minimum engagement: 10 U.S. non-provisional applications.
No claim allowed?
100% of our professional fees back.
For U.S. non-provisional applications we draft and prosecute, under our engagement agreement.
Experience
Portfolios We Have Built
UnifabriX Ltd.
Memory and interconnect architectures for AI systems
Gil Thieberger serves as VP of Intellectual Property and System Architecture at UnifabriX, and has drafted more than 120 U.S. non-provisional patent applications for the company in about 2.5 years, covering CXL, UALink, and memory interconnect architectures.
Other representative clients
Team
The People You Work With
Is Active Knowledge right for you?
Five Quick Questions
We work best with technology companies that plan at least 10 U.S. patent applications a year. We are available whenever you need us, and we work from your offices when appropriate.