Intellectual Property for Frontier Technology
Patent races decide who owns the key technologies of the future. We help you win them by drafting, prosecuting and litigating patents at the pace you innovate - with hybrid intelligence: elite attorneys and frontier AI, developed side by side with our sister software company.
AI-powered patent work, perfected and directed by elite attorneys.
AI gets better every month, and anyone can buy the latest model. But no model knows what your inventors have not written down, where your roadmap is heading, or how a judge will read your claim in litigation. Our attorneys were research scientists first - in quantum optics and plasma physics - and talk to your scientists and inventors as peers. We set the strategy and direct the AI systems of our sister software company, from the first draft to the courtroom. The machine brings speed and reach no human team can match; our attorneys bring the judgement no machine can learn. And an attorney stays in the lead at every step, knowing exactly what happens and why. That is hybrid intelligence, and it is how patent races are won today.
The law firm that works with you and thinks ahead.
noēsis is built around the idea that the attorney who carries the responsibility works on your matter personally and discusses it in depth with your scientists and engineers. No pyramid of associates between you and your attorney, and no billable hours: both served the firm, not the client, and both belong to the past. We follow your research as it happens, spot inventions early and plan filings around your roadmap and financing rounds. And every matter we handle makes our attorneys and our systems better - so the experience of all our work flows into yours.
Small teams multiplied by legal computing power
noēsis works with custom AI provided by our sister software company. The software takes on the volume: reading, searching, drafting, at a scale no team of humans could match. Our attorneys ensure the judgement - and the improvement - in every matter.
Every piece of work feeds back into the system. That learning loop is how we scale: when your filings double, our team does not have to. A small team of excellent attorneys carries a portfolio that would otherwise take a whole department, decides faster and holds its quality, matter after matter.
We work in two modes: as your classical patent attorneys, or embedded in your R&D - integrated into your tools and systems and tailored to the way your teams work, together with our sister software company.
Confidentiality, security and precision
Your unpublished inventions are among your most valuable assets, and we protect them accordingly. We scale the protection to the matter: where the stakes allow it, AI works at full power through enterprise interfaces under contractual confidentiality and data processing terms. Unpublished inventions and sensitive technologies are handled in isolated, access-controlled environments as secure as the technology allows.
Legal and technical precision is part of the same promise. An attorney checks and understands every result before it leaves our hands.
Our principles
Thinking machines take the volume. The mind that directs them has to be sharper than ever.
Zhèngmíng
Confucius held that order begins with calling each thing by its exactly correct name. This is the whole craft of a patent claim: name the invention precisely, at exactly the right level of abstraction.
noēsis
The direct grasp of a thing as it is - seen whole, not reasoned to step by step. It is what our attorneys bring that no machine can: the immediate insight into what an invention actually is.
Burhān
Ibn Rushd's standard of demonstrative proof: technical and legal argument rigorous enough to withstand an opponent trying to break it, on paper and in the courtroom. This is patent litigation.
Our team
Both founders were research physicists before they turned to patent law, and worked together in patent litigation and on AI systems for patent work before founding noēsis.
Our AI
Our sister software company phronērgon builds the AI systems our attorneys work with - developed side by side with our attorneys and tested on real matters every day.
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Patent drafting and prosecution
Drafting and prosecution before the EPO, the DPMA and under the PCT; US and further national filings are coordinated through local counsel. Claims are developed from first principles on the basis of our own prior-art searches, and the description is drafted to support them in each jurisdiction.
Litigation and opposition
EPO oppositions and appeals, nullity proceedings, and technical lead alongside trial counsel before the Unified Patent Court and the German infringement courts, covering infringement and validity analysis, claim construction and expert declarations.
Portfolio strategy
Patent landscape analyses, filing strategies and the choice of jurisdictions, aligned with your financing milestones and export control requirements.
Freedom to operate
Freedom-to-operate opinions with fully reproducible citations, so that your technical team can verify every reference. On request, we monitor competitor filings continuously and update the opinion whenever a new publication changes the assessment.
Due diligence and M&A
Buy-side and sell-side IP due diligence, including a critical review of your own portfolio before it is examined by an acquirer or a competitor.
Embedded IP team
On request, our attorneys work within your R&D organisation as an embedded IP team, in direct contact with your scientists and engineers, so that inventions are identified as they arise.