Resources
Essential frameworks, guides, and tools for navigating innovation,
creativity, and ownership in the AI era.
Patent Representation Index
A composite score ranking 91 tech companies on how well they translate women's technical work into patent inventorship. Built from BigQuery patent data and government EEO-1 workforce filings. Five sub-indices, weighted, normalized 0-100.
See the RankingsWhy Most Software Patents Start Too Late
The entire patent industry assumes someone already knows they have an invention. For software engineers, that assumption is almost always wrong. The gap is not the filing process. It is the discovery step.
Read the GuideWhat Is Patent Mining?
Patent mining extracts hidden value from data sources, engineering teams, and codebases. Three definitions, the crypto mining parallel, and how AI changes the discovery step.
Read the GuideThe PPA as a Stock Option on Your IP
A provisional patent application costs $65-$325 and buys you 12 months. Think of it like a stock option: a small premium for the right to decide later whether to invest fully.
Read the GuideThe Three-Level Disclosure Framework
Most developers describe what they built. Attorneys need to know what problem it solves. A practical template that combines problem-first structure with three levels of specificity.
Get the FrameworkSoftware Patents After Alice
Alice changed the rules, not the game. 58% of software patents still get approved. A guide to what survives, prosecution strategies, and what developers should document.
Read the GuideAI Patent Legal Precedents
A comprehensive guide to how courts and patent offices treat AI-assisted inventions, with authoritative links to USPTO guidance and case law. Understand the legal landscape with plain English explanations of key rulings.
Read the PrecedentsCo-Founder IP: Who Owns What
Two founders build a product. Who owns the patents? Without an assignment agreement, each co-inventor can independently license the invention to your competitor. Without permission. Without sharing a dollar.
Read the GuideIP Ownership Clauses for Remote Contractors
A remote contractor can write your next core patent before lunch. Without the right cross-border assignment language, they may still own it.
Read the GuideTight Ownership for AI Code Teams
When AI generates most of the code, who conceived the invention? A practical protocol for capturing inventorship evidence before the filing scramble.
Read the ProtocolWhy Local-First Matters for Patent Discovery
Before you file a patent, your invention is a trade secret. Any AI tool that processes unfiled inventions in the cloud introduces risk across three legal frameworks. Local-first scanning eliminates all three.
Read the GuidePatent Documents and the Cloud
Three legal frameworks govern how pre-filing patent documents can be stored and processed. The risk isn't cloud itself. It's how long your unfiled invention sits on someone else's server.
Read the AnalysisAI Agents and Your Intellectual Property
99% of dev teams use AI coding tools. 29% are prepared to secure them. When your agent reads your codebase, where does that code go? The answer has legal consequences.
Read the GuideIP Ownership in Local-First Sync Engines
Distributed contributors, open-source CRDTs, and cross-border teams create unique IP ownership risks. Learn how to secure clean patent title before it becomes a deal-breaker.
Read the GuideTesla's .smol Patent: What It Actually Claims
Tesla's WO2024073080 describes a hybrid columnar-row file format for ML training data. This analysis walks in-house counsel through the eligibility, prior art, and disclosure risks.
Read the AnalysisProtecting Creativity in the AI Era
A practical guide for artists, developers, and knowledge workers to safeguard their ideas, innovations, and value in an age where AI can absorb everything you create.
Explore the GuideThe Patent Gender Gap by the Numbers
Women make up 29% of the STEM workforce but hold 12.8% of U.S. patents. The gap isn't talent. A data-driven look at where it lives, what it costs, and what actually closes it.
See the DataAI+Human Innovation Framework
Innovation has always been a dance of imagination and tools. This framework maps the nine dimensions of innovation, showing how human imagination and AI acceleration can align to expand the frontier of what's possible.
View FrameworkTechnology Discrimination
The patent system may not discriminate against inventions on paper, yet still discriminate among inventors in practice. Access barriers and eligibility skepticism compound for software builders.
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