Intellectual Property Law Editing and Proofreading Services

Intellectual property is the area of law where the writing is the asset. A patent claim is protected exactly as far as its wording reaches and no further; a licence grant that does not say whether it is exclusive has created its own dispute. IP documents reward precision more directly than almost anything else lawyers draft.

We edit patent specifications and claims, trademark applications and responses to office actions, licensing and assignment agreements, IP clauses in commercial contracts, freedom-to-operate and infringement opinions, cease-and-desist letters, and technology transfer documents. Our editors check that defined terms are used identically throughout, that claim language and the specification stay consistent, and that antecedent basis is not broken by a stray "the."

Much of this work is highly technical, and our editors are comfortable leaving substance untouched while fixing everything around it. We will not rewrite a claim's scope — that is your call and your client's. We will tell you where a sentence can be read two ways.

We handle unpublished applications and confidential technical material routinely, and treat every file as sensitive. Your invention is your business; the clarity of the document is ours.