Patent management for growth-stage companies
Build a real patent function without hiring an in-house IP team
As your technical team grows, patent work gets harder to manage long before it justifies a full-time IP hire. Patentext fills the gap.
As your technical team grows, patent work gets harder to manage long before it justifies a full-time IP hire. Patentext fills the gap.
The patent process that worked with a smaller engineering team often breaks down as the company grows. More potentially patentable work is being created, but the process may still depend on someone noticing an invention and pushing each matter forward manually.
That leaves companies in an awkward middle: keep leaning on outside counsel and internal teams to coordinate everything, or hire an experienced in-house IP leader before there is enough work to justify the overhead.
Patentext gives you another option. It provides the infrastructure and professional support to run a real patent program without building an IP team yet.
Start with the platform, then pay flat fees only when you decide an invention is worth filing.
Keep your invention and patent work organized in one place.
$3,600 provisionals, $5,700 non-provisionals. Discounts available for bulk filers.
One connected process from invention to filed patent application
How it works
Patentext takes on more of the work that usually accumulates around a growing patent program.
Potential inventions emerge in design reviews, technical documents, product development, and everyday engineering work. Patentext helps surface them before they depend on someone recognizing an invention and submitting a disclosure.
Build out the technical record while the details are still fresh, without chasing information across documents, meetings, and email threads.
Not every invention should become a filing. Evaluate each opportunity against the business, the existing portfolio, and what is worth spending money to protect.
When an invention is green-lit, registered patent practitioners from Patentext's services arm prepare and file the application. Because the invention has already been developed in the platform, they are not starting from a blank page.
Track what is under review, what has been filed, and what needs a decision without adding dedicated IP headcount just to manage the process.
There is no single filing volume or company size that makes an in-house patent hire necessary. Companies often consider hiring when patent activity has become difficult for general counsel, founders, engineering leaders, or outside counsel to coordinate efficiently. But a full-time senior IP hire can be difficult to justify when the workload is still uneven.
Patentext gives growth-stage companies another option by providing the software, workflow, and professional patent support (via Patentext Services) needed to run a more systematic patent program without immediately building an internal IP team.
Patentext can handle many of the functions a growing company needs before it is ready to hire dedicated in-house IP personnel, including invention discovery, disclosure development, prioritization, patent workflow management, and access to registered patent practitioners for drafting and filing. Whether a company ultimately needs dedicated in-house IP counsel depends on the size and complexity of its patent program.
As engineering organizations grow, relying entirely on employees to recognize and voluntarily disclose inventions becomes less reliable. Patentext helps companies surface potentially patentable work from ongoing R&D and develop promising opportunities into a structured patent pipeline for review and prioritization.
Companies can evaluate potential filings based on factors such as technical importance, relevance to core products, competitive differentiation, business value, existing portfolio coverage, and available patent budget. Patentext helps organize the technical and strategic information needed to make those decisions before filing.
Patent management software helps companies organize inventions, applications, deadlines, decisions, and other patent-related work. Patentext extends that workflow upstream by helping companies identify and develop potentially patentable inventions before an application exists, then manage approved matters through drafting, filing, and prosecution.
Yes. A company can use Patentext to create a more systematic internal process for invention discovery, evaluation, and portfolio management while continuing to involve patent professionals when needed. Patentext Services also offers patent drafting, filing, and prosecution services through registered patent practitioners.
Get the infrastructure and professional support to keep patent work moving as your company grows, without adding dedicated IP headcount before you need it.