What can custom AI do for an IP or patent practice?
Custom AI can take the highest-risk, most repetitive parts of IP work off your desk: tracking prosecution deadlines, structuring a portfolio, searching prior art across your own corpus, and drafting first-pass responses. Off-the-shelf tools handle the generic parts; the value is a system that understands your docket, your clients, and your jurisdictions. adnah. builds that whole system and hands you the keys.
What a product misses
Generic legal AI does not understand prosecution deadlines, portfolio structure, or how a claim maps to prior art, so the parts that carry malpractice risk stay manual. A horizontal contract tool can summarise a licence, but it cannot calculate a Paris Convention priority date, tell you which family members share an office action, or flag that a renewal fee window closes in a jurisdiction with no grace period. That gap is where firms still run spreadsheets next to million-dollar portfolios.
What we build
We build prosecution and docketing systems, portfolio dashboards, prior-art and infringement search over your own document corpus, and renewal-deadline automation. Everything is wired to your existing filing and matter systems, with an audit trail on every action. Where useful, we add claim-chart drafting support, office-action response assembly, and a client-facing portal so in-house counsel can see portfolio status without emailing you for it.
Is this you?
- You manage more than a handful of active families and a missed date is a malpractice event, not an inconvenience.
- Prior-art or freedom-to-operate search is eating associate hours that should go to analysis, not retrieval.
- Your portfolio data lives in three places: a legacy IP platform, a spreadsheet, and someone's memory.
- You want the system to sit inside your own environment, not hand client filings to a third-party SaaS vendor.
What we build for ip & patents
Docket & deadline engine
Every deadline captured, calculated by jurisdiction, and escalated before it lands, so a date never slips through a spreadsheet.
Prior-art & infringement search
Semantic search across your prior filings, opinions, and a claim corpus, returning the passage and the cite, not just a link.
Portfolio intelligence
One live view of the portfolio by client, family, jurisdiction, and status, with renewals and costs projected forward.
Office-action response assembly
First-pass responses drafted from the rejection, the file history, and your prior arguments, for an attorney to refine and file.
Client portfolio portal
A read-only view your clients can check themselves, cutting the status-update emails that eat an associate's afternoon.
Questions
IP & patents: what people ask
Can it integrate with our existing IP management system?
Yes. We build around what you already run, whether that is a dedicated IP platform, a practice-management tool, or spreadsheets, and integrate through APIs or exports rather than forcing a rip-and-replace.
How do you handle deadline calculation across jurisdictions?
Jurisdiction rules are encoded into the docketing engine and reviewed with your team, so every calculated date is traceable to the rule it came from. A human still confirms, but the system does the arithmetic and the chasing.
Is our confidential filing data safe?
NDA before any specifics, encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and, where you need it, deployment inside your own cloud tenant with your own model keys so nothing leaves your environment.
Do we own what you build?
Yes. Full source, credentials, and infrastructure ownership on handover. No per-seat licensing and no lock-in.
Can the system draft claim charts or office-action responses?
Yes, as a first pass grounded in the file history and your own prior arguments. An attorney reviews and finalises every filing; the system removes the blank-page problem, not the judgment.
How long does a docketing engine take to stand up?
A focused v0, deadline capture and escalation for your current docket, typically ships in 2-4 weeks. Portfolio dashboards and search layer on from there.
Other practice areas
See allReady to build for ip & patents?
One call, no deck. An honest go / no-go and a written scope by the end of the week.