We are not just lawyers!

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; 

FOLKS, many inventors make the mistake of over-valuing patents, and not properly understanding the rest of the process of successfully $profiting from an invention. Often, patents are only about 1/7 the battle, there is another 6/7 that inventors often Neglect.

In working with hundreds of inventors over 23 years, my law firm developed an entirely separate line of business providing services to inventors that are not related to patents, law, legal services, or attorneys.

EXAMPLE NON-ATTORNEY SERVICES WE PROVIDE

Searching, reviewing, contacting, and vetting component providers and service providers for  sensor components and potentially finished products; Ordering and testing various products; Reviewing communications from the specific invention-team; 

IN ORDER TO AVOID OVERLAPPING TASKS, TRACKING CONTACTS

Creating/updating spreadsheet documenting which entities this law firm has contacted, status of most recent communications, what products we have ordered; Participating in conference calls with various potential Providers;

OFTEN, A TEST-LAB IS NEEDED

previewing and recommending items to supply/furnish within a design/test lab for use as the products get built out; debunking and getting rid of quack/fake vaporware inventions that never materialized into a tangible product, including reviewing legal documents and state\federal filings; Contacting as many entities as possible by a variety of ways, but especially communicating by Voice and Zoom.  This is important. No invention can be successful without actual human contact.

YES, SOMETIMES PATENTS PLAY A PART

Researching, assembling, and filing rush-quickie Provisional patent application as inventor, mostly targeting certain features and aspects that have the highest marketplace-interest (not inventor-interest, that should NEVER a factor in any patent filing).

THIS IS WHY ITS GOOD TO HIRE A LAWYER WHO HELPS WITH MARKET-CUSTOMER RESEARCH

The patent applications are more likely to conform with those features of the invention(s) that affect $commerce and $revenue.