No. Tradespace provides the technology. The legal work is performed by licensed patent attorneys at independent partner law firms. You have a direct attorney-client relationship with that firm, established by a separate engagement letter. Tradespace does not practice law.

Is the AI writing my patents?

AI accelerates the process. It processes invention materials, structures them into patent-ready components, and produces a technology-assisted draft. A licensed patent attorney then reviews that draft, applies legal judgment on claim strategy, specification adequacy, and prosecution positioning, and takes professional responsibility for the filed application. The AI makes the attorney faster and better informed. It doesn't replace their judgment.

How can you charge $5K when traditional firms charge $15K to $25K?

Traditional firms spend significant attorney time on work that isn't actually the practice of law: interviewing inventors, structuring specification text, formatting documents, and project management. Tradespace's AI handles that machinery so the attorney focuses entirely on legal judgment. The attorney has the same substantive review time. We compressed the waiting and the busywork, not the thinking.

Is 5 days a rush job?

No. The 5-day timeline is what happens when you eliminate the queue. At a traditional firm, most of the 4 to 8 week timeline is waiting: waiting for a docket slot, waiting for a first draft, waiting for partner review. The attorney in our model has the same substantive review time they'd have in a traditional engagement. The AI compressed the waiting, not the thinking.

Are you replacing my outside counsel?

We replace the model, not necessarily the relationship. If you have outside counsel you trust for specialized or high-stakes work, keep them. Tradespace handles the volume: the routine filings, the office actions, the prosecution workflow that eats up your budget and your bandwidth. Most of our customers find that 70 to 80% of the work they were sending to a firm can run through Tradespace faster and at a fraction of the cost.

Do I see the draft before it's filed?

Yes. On Day 3, you receive a complete, attorney-reviewed draft for your review. You provide feedback, the attorney incorporates it, and filing happens on Day 5. No black box. You see the work product before anything is filed.

How is this different from AI drafting tools like Solve or DeepIP?

Those are excellent tools that make patent practitioners more productive. But you still need practitioners to use them, and you still send the output to outside counsel to get a patent filed. Tradespace includes the attorneys. The AI drafting, the filing, the prosecution, and the portfolio management all happen inside one system. You get the outcome, a filed patent, not a better tool to hand to your law firm.

250+ leading IP Attorneys. One Network

Tradespace Counsel brings together a vetted network of top global IP firms committed to increasing the value they deliver to clients through the use of Tradepsace’s AI Agents.

File with Tradespace

235+

Vetted patent attorneys and patent agents in active matter rotation 

Roster · Q2 2026

13

Distinct technology practice areas, each with senior coverage 

Practice Taxonomy

30+

U.S. metropolitan areas represented across the network  

Geographic Footprint

Cohort I

Representative Firms

Houston, TX

Cleveland, OH

Fairfax, VA

New Haven, CT

Phoenix, AZ

+ additional firms across all major technology disciplines

01 / Membership Standards

A small group of firms, chosen for quality.

Membership criteria are written. They are applied uniformly. They are not negotiated. The four standards below describe the firm — not any particular attorney — and govern admission as well as continued membership. Every applicant is reviewed against every criterion.

01 / TECHNICAL CREDENTIALS

Genuine technical depth, validated.

The firm must be able to staff matters in at least four of the thirteen recognized technology areas with attorneys whose training and experience demonstrably support that classification.

Verified undergraduate or graduate degrees in the relevant discipline
USPTO registration for prosecuting attorneys and agents
Prior industry or research experience preferred above coursework alone

02 / PROFESSIONAL STANDING

A clean, verifiable record.

Every applicant firm is reviewed for disciplinary history at the state bar level and at the USPTO. Adverse findings are not automatically disqualifying, but are weighted heavily and reviewed individually.

State bar good standing across all attorney admissions
OED search for each USPTO-registered practitioner
Malpractice carrier confirmation at minimum coverage levels

03 / QUALITY OF PRACTICE

Evidence of substantive prosecution work.

The firm must demonstrate a sustained record of patent prosecution — not occasional filings appended to a litigation or transactional practice. Allowance rates, RCE incidence, and claim quality are reviewed against USPTO data.

Minimum five years of continuous prosecution practice
Independent claim quality benchmarked against examiner-level data
Sample office-action responses reviewed by Tradespace counsel

04 / OPERATIONAL FIT

Capacity, responsiveness, and ethics.

Member firms must operate at a service level that meets the expectations of corporate IP teams: predictable turnaround, transparent billing, structured docketing, and the ability to clear conflicts on a per-matter basis without delay.

Documented intake, conflicts, and docketing procedures
Service-level commitments on initial response and draft delivery
Confidentiality and data-handling controls reviewed annually

Bench depth across thirteen technology areas.

Tradespace classifies every member attorney by primary technology area at the time of admission, validated against undergraduate degree, advanced degree, prior industry experience, and prosecution history. The result is a network in which any incoming matter can be staffed by a senior attorney whose technical training matches the disclosure — not adjacent to it.

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250+ leading IP Attorneys. One Network

235+

Roster · Q2 2026

13

Practice Taxonomy

30+

Geographic Footprint

Representative Firms

Houston, TX

Houston, TX

Cleveland, OH

Fairfax, VA

New Haven, CT

Phoenix, AZ

A small group of firms, chosen for quality.

01 / TECHNICAL CREDENTIALS

Genuine technical depth, validated.

02 / PROFESSIONAL STANDING

A clean, verifiable record.

03 / QUALITY OF PRACTICE

Evidence of substantive prosecution work.

04 / OPERATIONAL FIT

Capacity, responsiveness, and ethics.

A six-stage review, over four to six weeks.

Application

Day 0

Credential Review

Days 1-10

Practice Audit

Day 10-20

References

Days 15–25

Conflict Architecture

Days 20–30

Admission

Days 30–42

Annual Re-Attestation

Bench depth across thirteen technology areas.

01

Semiconductors & Electronics

141

60%

02

Software & Computing

132

56%

03

Medical Devices & Healthcare