Practice area · Intellectual Property

Details

How the tools fit a intellectual property matter, the documents involved and the rules they draft around.

Process

A matter, step by step

1

The first call

The Website Intake Assistant talks to a founder at any hour, collects their name and contact details and what they want to protect, and saves them to Matter Management as an Inquiry.

2

The rules

Ask the AI Law Assistant about trademark use, copyright timing or the patent grace period, with its sources. Matter Management keeps the disclosure and filing dates you enter.

3

The letters and notes

The Document Drafter writes the cease-and-desist letter, the client letter and the filing checklist from your facts. Save a filing date and the draft is written a few days ahead.

4

The follow-through

Reply to the other side or its counsel with the Email Assistant. Each draft is saved for review and nothing is sent without you.

Documents

The documents an IP firm uses

These are real Document Drafter types. Lengths are for the document itself, and about 450 words fill a page.

Demand Letter

A cease-and-desist letter over a trademark, copyright or patent, with the facts, the right claimed and a response date. Standard length runs about 1,200 to 2,000 words. Every plan.

Settlement Letter

Proposes or confirms terms for a licence, a coexistence agreement or the end of infringing use. Standard length runs about 700 to 1,200 words. Every plan.

Client Letter

Plain-English advice on a filing, a disclosure or the next step. Standard length runs about 400 to 700 words. Every plan.

NDA

A non-disclosure agreement for an invention or a business idea before a meeting or a sale. Short length runs about 800 to 1,200 words. Every plan.

Legal Memo

An internal memorandum on a clearance, validity or infringement question, with authority left for you to fill in and verify. Standard length runs about 1,400 to 2,300 words. Every plan.

Checklist

A working checklist for a filing, such as the drawings, the inventor records and the disclosure history. Standard length runs about 300 to 600 words. Professional and Enterprise.

Rules

IP rules come from federal law

Trademark, copyright and patent rights are set by federal law, so this page does not use the state reference file. The table lists the rules the tools draft around. Each one turns on dates and facts the attorney must confirm.

MatterWhere the rule comes fromWhat the tool does
Copyright infringement17 U.S.C. § 507(b)Gives the three-year period for a civil action, counted from when the claim accrued. The attorney confirms the accrual date
Patent grace period35 U.S.C. § 102(b)(1)(A)Explains the one-year grace period after an inventor's own public disclosure. Rights in many other countries can be lost by the same disclosure
Trademark use and confusionThe Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1114 and § 1125(a)Drafts the cease-and-desist letter around the mark, the use and the likelihood of confusion. Whether confusion is likely is a fact question

Confirm the current rule and any filing fee or form before you rely on them. The attorney checks the USPTO and Copyright Office records directly.

Limits

Where you take over

It does not clear a name or an invention

It does not search trademark or patent records for conflicts or prior art. An attorney runs those searches.

It does not predict whether a claim will succeed

It does not estimate the chance of infringement or of a patent being granted.

It does not file with an office

Nothing is filed with the USPTO or the Copyright Office. Every application and letter is a draft for an attorney to review.

It does not value an IP asset

It does not estimate the value of a brand, a patent or a licence. It drafts around the figures you give it.