Barker Brettell
Ahnaf Kabir
What they do
- Patents
- Trade marks
- Designs
- Disputes
Where
- Birmingham
- Southampton
- London
- Stockholm
- Uppsala
Who
Startups and SMEs in computing, AI, digital health, medical devices, life sciences
Corporates with in-house teams needing outsourced support
Why them?
Document-heavy
Every new client sends pitch decks, invention disclosures, screenshots, draft names, meeting notes
Someone has to extract what matters
Why them?
Mixed matters
One inquiry can need patents + trademarks + designs simultaneously
Handoffs between teams get messy
The problem
Startup sends an email:
- 6-page pitch deck about their medical device
- List of potential product names
- Screenshots of the UI
- "We're announcing this at a conference next week"
Attorney needs to answer:
- Patent? Trademark? Design? All three?
- What's actually protectable here?
- Are those names taken?
- Did we just lose patent rights if they announce?
- Who handles this?
- What's missing?
Why that matters
- Takes 30 min to 2 hours
- It's not billable
- Quality varies by person
- Slow triage = lost client
The solution
- Upload client materials
- Extract: features, names, inventors, dates, risks
- Classify: patent/trademark/design/mixed
- Generate triage memo
- Attorney reviews and edits
- Client summary
What it is
The AI structures the first pass
Attorney reviews everything before it goes to the client
Junior does extraction, senior reviews and corrects
Why they'd use it
- Minutes instead of hours
- Consistent quality
- Cleaner handoffs
- Nothing falls through
- No liability risk
Why it's realistic
- Extraction and classification logic is straightforward
- Multimodal models parse PDFs and extract from images
- The challenge is workflow understanding, not technical feasibility
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