Intellectual Property
Patent Search & Refine · Trademark Search & Refine · Intellectual Property Strategy
“Making drawings was a way to understand and unravel the relation between idea and form—between the concept of architecture and its implementation.” Mohsen Mostafavi (Curator), reviewing the exhibition Robin Evans: Drawings for Thinking, at the Harvard School of Design Frances Loeb Library
Invention Development Before Attorney Spend
A patent should not begin as a legal expense. It should begin as a disciplined act of invention.
I help inventors, founders, and product developers refine their ideas before they enter the expensive legal phase of patent prosecution.
My approach comes from manufacturing, product development, and Architecture. Architects do not separate drawing from design. If a structure cannot be drawn, it is not yet understood. The same principle applies to patents. If an invention cannot be described clearly, and if its difference from existing work cannot be explained, then it has not yet reached its mature form.
Prior-art research is not a clerical step. It is part of the invention process. It shows what has already been attempted, where the field is crowded, where the weak assumptions are, and where a better solution may still be possible. The exercise of explaining an invention often changes the invention. That is not a problem. That is the work.
Leverage My Experience
I can develop ideas because I also know how to make them in real-world industrial manufacturing. I bring more than 35 years of manufacturing operations and product-development experience, including paper converting, packaging, plant startup, machinery integration, reverse engineering, OEM production, environmentally friendly paper products, and cross-border manufacturing. I also build AI-assisted research and documentation workflows for prior-art analysis, technical writing, and product-development support.
I am not a patent attorney and do not provide legal advice. I help research and develop the invention, the research, and the technical documentation so to provide your attorney with the strongest possible foundation to patent and defend.
For Inventors, the Goal Is Simple
Do not pay attorney rates to discover that the invention needs refinement. The lawyers have their work cut out for them. It is the job of the patent examiner to pick your invention apart and there are no do-overs once a patent is filed.