All of the below have widely-varying $billing $rates. These services are chosen and offered partly because they are the types of tasks that many inventors dislike and would prefer to delegate.
Even worse, some inventors often hope that these tasks will not need to be performed at all, and so neglect them. This is a recipe for losing every cent that was put in (we see this often). The below tasks need to be done! Don't think you can skate by without doing this. And have the self-awareness to know when you need to Delegate!
Inability to Delegate is a key ingredient in business-failure.
We sometimes get chosen to perform these services because our law firm often has a very firm clear idea of the scope and content of the invention, usually second only to the inventor herself.
attending industry-specific trade shows on behalf of clients
finding new business channels and potential new customers for clients
assisting in the commercialization of inventions
developing relationships with outside capital and investors
shoring up and clarifying relationships between inventors and existing investors
sometimes advising clients "its time to give up, cease spending money, stop the bleeding"
finding, negotiating with, and vetting service providers for clients and inventors
completing grant applications and applications for participating in entrepreneurship competitions and invention competitions
completing and filing quickie-rush provisional patent applications to provide at least some protection prior to the public disclosure that arises with invention competitions
providing copyright filing and assistance, strategic counsel, including explain to people how to file their own copyright application at copyright.gov
assisting with accounting and tax strategies for inventors and small businesses, including how to properly document expenses and when and where they can be deducted and when not
extensive experience with properly developing, seeding, and pre-launch canvassing of Crowdfunding campaigns
assistance with Google Adwords, including using Google Adwords as a way of measuring effectiveness of a particular brand and brand-identity
helping authors get their books finished and published
extensive Rolodex of trustworthy reliable service providers that can work with inventors and small businesses
setting up YouTube channel for clients
providing assistance with political campaigns, including website and donation management
VENTURE CAPITAL, GRANT-MONEY, PITCHING FOR DOLLARS
drafting position papers showing the advantages of products,
applications for government grants, Shark Tank, Y-combinator, “Bricks” of West Palm Beach FL, or invention competitions
BRAND-DISCOVERY USING GOOGLE AD-WORDS
Setting up a simple landing page (not website) and enabling Google Adwords to funnel carefully curated and screened interested parties to that landing page
Doing federal trademark searches to determine which of these Keywords might be available for a federal trademark registration;
Assembling a list of possible brands, ranking them by a variety of factors at least two of which are whether 1) federal trademark Registration is available, and 2) level of competition (whether these words and brand-identities are already subject to a high degree of purchase within Google Adwords
LLC filing and Operating Agreements;Operating Agreements should not ever again be thought of as "set it and forget it" documents, but instead should be thought of as living documents that need to be periodically updated as business conditions change, please see our YouTube playList on the subject of LLCs, and see also the separate section of this website dedicated to LLCs;We include this section in both the "legal services" and also our "non-Legal services" sections because many aspects of an Operating Agreement do not require an attorney, indeed many of the best authors of Op Agreement documents are not attorneys, and also, most Operating Agreements are not filed anywhere, and are not ever interpreted in any Court, they are just private Agreements between two or more parties;
Tax consequences and Schedule C issues for both inventors and LLCs;Schedule C is a neglected area of individual and corporate governance, because its so dul and people don't understand it. We include this section in both the "legal services" and also our "non-Legal services" sections because many aspects of an Schedule C do not require an attorney or CPA, indeed many Schedule C documents and assertions are filed by individuals themselves, without any outside professional at all. Please our YouTube videos and playLists on Schedule C issues. A first playList of ours discusses Schedule C for inventors, and a second playList of ours discusses an episode of CNBC's show "the Profit" starring Marcus Lemonis in which a company clearly mis-handles their Schedule C representations;