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Startup & Deep Tech

Investors are asking what you own. What can you actually hand them?

At seed and Series A, IP is a diligence question before it is a strategy question. The failure mode is nearly always the same: the founders own the company, but a contractor owns the code, the mark was never filed, and the demo that went public started a clock nobody was watching.

Why businesses like yours call us

  • Diligence is coming — and the answer needs to be a document, not a conversation
  • Contractor and co-founder assignments — the single most common gap we find
  • You demoed before you filed — public disclosure can end patentability

Where to start

  • Entry product — IP Position Audit
  • One firm throughout — you are not handed to another firm at the next rung.
Fee — scoped to your business, quoted in writing before you commit. No rate card, no hourly meter: the number you agree to is the number you pay.
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The work

The rungs that matter most here.

The ladder is the same for everyone. These are the steps this situation usually starts on.

RungIP AuditRungRegistration & FilingsRungPortfolio Strategy
Questions people ask

The things clients ask in this position.

What IP do investors look for in due diligence? Who owns the work a freelancer creates for me? Can I patent something I have already shown publicly? What is a provisional patent application? Can I patent an app or software in India?
How it played out

Cases worth reading first.

Public IP disputes, read for what they teach. These are not our clients — they are the record.

Kodak's Digital Imaging Patents — Owning the Future and Not Using It Lego's Brick Shape Battles — What Happens When the Patent Runs Out Satyam Infoway v Siffynet — Domain Names as Trademarks in India