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Tradespace
Tradespace is a San Francisco company building an end-to-end, AI-powered platform for managing intellectual property. It covers the full patent lifecycle - invention capture, AI-assisted drafting, prosecution, portfolio management and commercialization - so in-house IP teams can run a scalable function without paying traditional law-firm billable-hour rates. The platform manages over 440,000 patents for 80+ organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and roughly 75% of top US research universities.
IP Author
IP Author is an AI-powered patent drafting and prosecution platform for corporate patent teams and IP law firms. Founded in 2023 and based in Fremont, California, it unifies invention disclosure, patent drafting, prior art search, and office action responses into a single generative-AI workspace. The company says its tools cut drafting time by 40-60%, generating full applications - claims, specifications, abstracts, and diagrams - in hours instead of days. Customers include Qualcomm, ResMed, Chevron, and Elmos Semiconductor.