You shape claims and a specification with only a partial sense of what's already out there. And you find out how good your guess was years later, during examination, when the filing date can't be recovered and the patent that should have held up doesn't. That's how it has always worked.
It doesn't have to anymore
For nearly a decade, IPRally was obsessed with one task: patent search. That obsession made us the best in the world at it, and it produced something no one else has — an examiner-trained proprietary AI that understands technology the way a patent professional does, trusted by 275+ organizations and 4,600+ users for the searches where being wrong is expensive.
Search was never the whole job. But doing it this well earns you the right to take on the rest. Protection is the path from idea to granted right, and it starts where the pain is sharpest: drafting. Prior-art-aware from the first sentence. The closest art surfaced as you write. Claim scope informed by evidence, not instinct.
Drafting is where Protection starts, not where it ends
Protection is the path from idea to granted right: the invention disclosure, the decision of what and where to patent, the drafting, and the office action work that follows. We're starting with drafting because that's where the pain is sharpest and where the engine underneath makes the biggest difference. The rest of the path is coming. We'll show you what we're building as we build it.
"If you've spent your career drafting in the dark, come and see it with the lights on."
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