Company
A sustainable and modular data center solution company focused on providing community integrated solutions with zero impact to the environment. Includes power systems, cooling systems and an AI powered software platform
Challenges
The Edge Cloud Link (ECL) Research & Development team typically drafted patents using attorneys. “Using patent lawyers, it took us a long time to process each patent, took much hard work, and cost thousands of dollars,” says ECL’s co-founder and CEO Yuval Bachar.
“The time and cost for the process of non-provisional patents is prohibitive and can even take years.” Inventors within the team struggled to convey their ideas to patent attorneys, who lacked technical expertise. Likewise, technologists found navigating the legal text required for patent filings challenging, slowing the processes and adding even more to attorney costs.
Innovators often spend tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees and prior art research, only to discover their patents are inadequate in the eyes of the USPTO or ultimately do not protect inventions in the real competitive world. This led to numerous office actions and ongoing attorney fees to handle complex legal correspondence. “Having to go back and forth with attorneys is too time-consuming for us,” says Bachar, “so until I heard about senseIP, I wasn’t even bothering to file patents on our innovations
Solution
ECL's team decided to use the senseIP platform, an interactive GenAI platform built for ideation, research, drafting, filing, and management of patents. "This approach is so refreshing. You simply enter your ideas and concepts with the senseIP AI agent. Your patent is drafted and submitted to the USPTO within hours instead of weeks while paying a negligent amount of money to do so."
The team was surprised at how sophisticated the agent is and how strong the business insights are. "Within minutes, we get all the insights on competing patents in the US and globally, and it helps us assess our patents' strength," says Bachar. “Then, the tool fine- tunes our verbiage to create a differentiating competitive advantage."
"Instead of the disconnect with attorneys who don't understand our tech, our innovators wrote everything about the inventions, and the app turned their ideas into strong, professionally prepared patents. The AI agent walked them through everything step-by-step, and they had an outstanding experience. The learning curve to use the platform was about 20 minutes."
"This is a game-changer for us. The platform is very stable and moves very fast," concludes Bachar.
Outcome
ECL filed 20 patents without employing patent attorneys and is now working on six more. "We would not have filed so many patents if we were still trying to do this with traditional lawyers. There is not enough time, nor money to get this done in the traditional ways," says Bachar, "and we didn't compromise on quality. The patents were written as well as if a top patent attorney had written them."
"From our team's perspective, the platform is revolutionary. It helps protect our IP well, with low effort and low cost. Instead of spending $250,000 on lawyers, we are spending just a few thousand on high-quality patents."
Bachar and his team explained that the platform took their patents to a different level. "The sheer enormous size of the database that the platform can analyze and compare in seconds saves us so much time. We ran over a billion elements in just a few minutes."