Disclosure to filing
Per filing
Registered IP attorneys
Outside counsel is the most expensive line item in your IP function — and the least visible part of it.
AI does the heavy lift on prior art, drafting, and figures. Your dedicated IP attorney reviews, edits, and signs every filing.
Senior attorneys from top law firms. Vetted, technically specialized, and dedicated to your work
+ additional firms across all major technology disciplines
Partner — Patterson & Sheridan
Texas Tech University School of Law · M.Eng; Engineering
10+ years building IP portfolios in optics and materials, including in-house roles at Applied Materials
Of Counsel — Mannava & Kang
American University Law School · BS Mechanical Engineering
Former patent examiner with 25+ years building IP portfolios in mechanical and electro-mechanical technologies for F500 companies
Partner — Amin, Turocy & Watson
UVA Law School · BS Systems Engineering
20+ years building IP portfolios in networking, electrical engineering, and advanced materials
The Tradespace Counsel Network brings together a select group of patent firms, each vetted against four standards of quality, matched to your company's strategy and technology focus.
Capture every invention your R&D team produces with AI that meets inventors where they work.
Learn MoreFile patents in days at a fraction of the cost. Attorney-reviewed. Fully managed. Inside a system you own.
Build a portfolio that compounds in value with data-driven pruning, maintenance, and strategic reporting.
Learn moreNo. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.