Tangify

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Building a patent portfolio usually requires a lot of human effort, from educating your team about inventions to managing the entire process. But what if AI could handle most of these steps? Imagine AI could: - Identify potential inventions in your organization using only public data. - Automatically generate invention disclosures. - Direct disclosures to the right engineers for refinement. - Save everything in one place for easy access and prioritization. - Share with outside IP counsel in the click of a button. With AI, you wouldn’t need to hire extra staff or spend time educating others. And you'd have complete visibility into potential IP. This is the future of invention harvesting, and it's what we're building at Tangify.

Top reasons legal execs work with us: 1. "Our IP portfolio is too small" (relative to our size or versus competitors) 2. "Our headcount has expanded a lot (we're now global!) and I can't keep up anymore" 3. "I have PTSD from getting sued and not having patents" 4. "We're partnering with serious incumbents and don't have leverage" Key issues or roadblocks: "Educating eng teams about how patents work is hard. I can't just run a training session & be done with it. I have to keep reinforcing it" "My eng teams don't like completing forms or meeting with lawyers. They know its important but they're too busy. They never say no...it's always 'I'll do this later' " "It's expensive to have outside counsel manage so much of the process" "We're still a lean legal team and don't have the bandwidth to embed ourselves into each team" How Tangify helps: We help legal execs at growing orgs get engineering teams to engage with IP without adding tons of admin, spending lots of money on outside counsel or changing anything about the way you work How it works: 1. Your eng teams upload anything to Tangify (notes, PRDs, whitepapers, etc.) 2. They get instant feedback and a pre-filled invention disclosure to edit. It takes <10 min to get through it. 3. You & your team get a completed, almost ready-to-file disclosure 4. You can immediately discuss, evaluate, and action with your exec team. Punt to outside counsel in one click if you decide to go ahead and file it. What changes for you: - Way easier to identify & extract inventions - Way easier for eng teams to work with you - Spend way less money & time on "process" - Get straight to decision-making & prioritization - Do more with a smaller team - Make your CFO happy (know exactly what you're spending IP budget on) - [Potentially] 2x your org's value We have a two more slots available this month for organizational pilots. Reach out if you'd like to give it a try.

What we hear often when we talk to GCs: - "We're still running a lean team in legal" - "Our IP portfolio is really small given the size of our org" - "Educating eng teams is a lot of work - getting them to identify relevant inventions is hard" - "Most engineers just want to build. They don't want to fill out forms or have meetings with us" Sound familiar? This is precisely the thing Tangify helps hypergrowth orgs with. Ping us if you want to chat.

🌟 Meet The Team Behind Tangify 🌟 We’re pleased to introduce the talents driving Tangify’s mission to make patent protection accessible to all using AI. Andrew Ryder - Co-Founder & CTO Andrew Ryder is our CTO and Co-founder. He brings over 25 years of experience in technology to our team. His career spans from early mobile gaming startups to e-commerce operations and custom fabrication technology management. Andrew has a diverse skill set encompassing product management, software engineering, and leadership across various technical roles. Want to learn more about Andrew’s journey? Explore here Andrew Ryder Sesha Kadakia - Co-Founder & CEO Sesha is our CEO and Co-Founder. She has over 10 years of experience in diverse domains, ranging from sales enablement at a major bank, to credit investing at hedge funds in the US & Europe, to treasury at a 3D printing nonprofit startup providing hearing aids and lower-limb prosthetics to disadvantaged communities in the Middle East. Sesha’s skills include sales, product management, investing, finance, and IP strategy, which have equipped her well to lead Tangify. Learn more about Sesha's journey here Sesha Kadakia. File patents without pulling out your hair Tangify uses AI to help startups figure out their IP, generate invention disclosures, and get patent applications started without wasting weeks in meetings and in endless back & forth discussions. Ready to get started? Let's connect and explore how we can work together. #AI #Innovation #PatentApplications #MeetTheTeam #Tech #IntellectualProperty

❓: What % of provisional patent applications historically convert to non-provisional utility patent applications? 🅰️ : 35-40% --- A month ago, we filed a FOIA request with the USPTO. We wanted to understand why more people don't file provisionals After all, a provisional patent application: ...costs $60-$300 to file ...has no specific formatting requirements ...buys you a year to convert it to the real-thing You can literally file **anything you want** as a provisional Anecdotally, we'd heard patent lawyers say that more than 90% of provisionals they write for clients end up converting to a nonprovisional 🤯 It seems like a no-brainer for everyone! 🤔Of course, the data is murkier: - Despite the low barrier to filing, only ~150K provisionals are filed each year (compared to ~600K non-provisionals) - Our FOIA request reveals that just 10% of nonprovisional filings come from converted provisional patents We didn't ultimately answer our question (why don't more people file provisionals?) Nevertheless, takeaways could be that: 1. conviction in the invention matters 2. investing in a patent lawyer early builds conviction 3. more conviction = higher willingness to invest in the nonprovisional --- (ask me how Tangify helps startups gain conviction in & write higher-quality invention disclosures in minutes with genAI) cc: Andrew Ryder

A surprisingly common path to kickstarting a patent process entails: 📢 Talking to a patent lawyer 🤔 Getting an estimate of costs, timeline, and process 🙌 Starting down the path of patent preparation 😢 Getting STUCK and GIVING UP Let's be real - few people **want** to spend their time on patents. The first roadblock is that identifying *what* to secure is already hard. It's more an art than a science. To identify what IP to protect, you need to: -- convey essential context about what your team built & why -- rely on the skill of your IP lawyer ask you the right questions -- trust your IP lawyer's judgment call on different aspects that are protectable The second hurdle is that making forward progress requires lots of back-and-forth with your IP lawyer over several weeks (or months!). A typical pathway is: 📝 Your IP lawyer takes a first pass ❓ They request clarification on the details or nuances of the tech 🙌 They expand out the first draft to include other potential use cases 🤯 They write about each concept in six different ways using language that feels rigid and dense ⌛ They ask you to review dozens of pages for accuracy 😧 You're overwhelmed and have too much going on 🔥 It burns a hole in your to-do list 😒 When you finally review it, it feels disconnected from what you were trying to accomplish in the first place 🙄 You start to question the point of doing all this work in the first place... I **promise** you there is another way... If you want to learn how Tangify uses gen AI to help you get it done faster, send me or Andrew Ryder a DM

I received a question yesterday from a startup founder with over a dozen customers lined up for an MVP...that isn't yet built. "At what stage does it make sense to file patents?" 🤔 In the past, I've suggested filing patents when your value proposition is resonating with customers. Clearly hers is. She rightly pointed out, however, that so much changes as you actually build. So what do you protect? Below are a few questions you can ask yourself to determine if an envisioned product feature is worth protecting: ✅ Is it something your customers want but don't have? ✅ Are you marketing any aspect or derivative of it to your customers? ✅Are customers likely to buy on the basis of you having it or incorporating it into your product? ✅ Is it mission-critical to your product? ✅ Does it solve a technical limitation that prior solutions struggle with? ✅ Does it enable a new capability and/or unlock a new value proposition? As you'll notice, good IP strategy goes beyond filing patents on your technology. It links to everything that matters in your organization - from your GTM motion to your USP to the technical details of your product features. This is something Tangify can help you navigate. We're doing a soft-launch of our AI platform. Reach out to myself or Andrew Ryder if you'd like to be part of the private beta.

There's a paradox in patent law. You're supposed to file a patent before you publicly disclose or sell your invention. But... - You also need to understand what differentiates 🚀 your solution - To know what differentiates your solution, you need to know why your stakeholders care 🥰 - To know why your stakeholders care, you need to talk 📢 to stakeholders - But if you talk to stakeholders, it could be considered public disclosure 🤔 How do you get around this? NDAs? IP clauses in your contracts? What if you're still in discovery mode? Or figuring out your go-to-market? Or doing things that don't scale? Or fighting for every deal? Or A/B testing specific features? The answer: file something the moment you see customers latching on. You can use Tangify to do it fast, if you want. Tangify helps you: 1. collect & organize relevant info 2. find an IP hook 3. pull together the pieces for your patent filing as you build You no longer have to make expensive or time-consuming tradeoffs. Reach out if you'd like to try it.