01 · The Proposition
FOR FOUNDERS · ENTREPRENEURS · BUSINESS ADVISORS · INVENTORS · CAPITAL MARKETS
Find out if your idea is
actually yours.
Know where your idea stands — before a pitch, a raise, or a public launch narrows your options to protect it. Backed by a team with 137+ filings since 2025.
Issue 01
An IPO-grade patent intelligence service for founders who treat IP as a strategic asset — not paperwork.
Provisional Filings · Registered attorney engaged · No outcome guaranteed
The problem, our solution, and the result
Most ideas walk out the door unprotected.
Founders pitch, raise, and launch before they know whether what they've built can be protected — and going public starts a clock. In most countries, a single disclosure before filing can end the right to protect it at all.
A clear, plain-language answer.
A focused read on whether your idea is protectable — and what to do next — from people who've filed at scale, not a script.
An edge you can defend.
You walk into the next raise, pitch, or launch knowing exactly where you stand — and what to secure before it costs you the position.
Why it matters
An unprotected idea isn't an asset — it's exposure.
The system rewards whoever files first and files cleanly. It penalizes delay quietly — until the cost surfaces at the worst possible moment. Four risks every founder carries until they act:
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The deadline is unforgiving.
Rights run to whoever files first — not whoever invented first. Disclose before you file (a pitch, a demo, a post) and in most countries you can lose the right to protect it. Filing first closes that door before a competitor, or your own launch, does.
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The traditional route is slow.
A full search and drafting through a conventional firm can take months and run to thousands — before you know whether you have anything worth filing. A missed quarter can be a missed raise.
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A quick search gives false confidence.
A generic AI or web check that says “looks unique” can miss the obscure prior filing a proper search surfaces. Building on ground a competitor already holds is the expensive way to learn that.
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Investors price what you can defend.
IP is standard in due diligence — an undefended position invites the one question you don't want at the table. A clear read turns “we have an idea” into a position you can take into the room.
None of this guarantees an outcome — protection still has to be earned and filed. It's the difference between negotiating from a position you can defend and one you only hope holds.
What it is
A clearer answer to a question most founders never ask in time.
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Fact
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Fact
A clear read on whether your idea looks protectable — from people who've filed at scale, not a script that flatters you.
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Fast
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Fast
Days, not months — fast enough to act before a launch or a raise forces the question.
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Backed
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Backed
A registered patent attorney is engaged at every step. We don't guess at outcomes, and we never guarantee them.
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Quiet
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Quiet
A private, considered service. No noise, no upsell — and your idea stays yours.
How it works
Three simple steps.
From first question to filed application — without ever leaving the hands of professionals.
A quick, independent check
We start with a focused review of whether your idea is protectable — no jargon, no upsell.
Search wide with 8Invent
We map the landscape around your idea and surface opportunities you might have missed.
A registered attorney protects it
When there's something worth filing, an attorney drives the protection. The work stays with professionals.
Proof
Sectors & applications
A sample of where defensible IP shows up across ~20 sectors. The same question runs through every one: is it defensible — and is it yours?
137+ Filings since 2025
412
Applications mapped
130+
Application domains
11–12
Industries / sectors
$152–503B
Floor TAM by 2030
Illustrative — a sample of the sectors these filings touch, not an exhaustive list.
All filings are patent-pending applications, not granted patents.
Scope & TAM
Three grains. One opportunity.
These filings map at three levels of resolution — applications, domains, and sectors. They don't sum cleanly, so we show them separately.
$3.9T
Combined global market
$152–503B
Floor addressable TAM by 2030
$4.2T
Headline TAM (current)
$5.8T+
Extended TAM (with adjacent sectors)
Finest grain
412
Applications & use-cases
Mapped across a single core technology — spanning energy and hydrogen, waste-to-value, defence, drones, electric motors, advanced coatings, authentication, AI governance, sensing, isotopes, computing, quantum/photonic, medical, space, and consumer, food and agriculture.
A handful of further sectors (life sciences and adjacent applications) sit outside this core mapping.
Mid grain
130+
Application domains
Group-wide domain count recorded across the filing programme (April 2026), up from 96+ pre-filing.
Coarsest grain
11–12
Industries / sectors
Clean hydrogen, waste, electric motors, drones/UAVs, maritime, defence, distributed power, industrial heat, carbon credits, AI governance, childcare compliance, regenerative medicine.
The 412 is a discovery-stage mapping spanning the full proven-to-speculative spectrum — a count of applications identified, not validated commercial products. The 11–12 industries and the $152–503B floor TAM are the investor-grade frame; the 412 illustrates upside.
Institutional Grade
Designed for advisors.
Loved by founders.
8Patent acts as the bridge between legal rigour and product velocity. We empower advisors and legal teams with real-time intelligence — while giving founders clarity.
137+
Filings
7
Ventures under protection
24
Months from cold start
Why now
The advantage belongs to those who move first.
Priority runs to the first to file, and every public step — a pitch, a demo, a launch — narrows what you can still protect. Securing your position early protects both your edge and your standing, before either is tested.
A closing note
"The patent isn't paperwork. It's the part of the company that keeps the rest of the company yours."
Frequently asked
Plain answers to the questions founders ask first.
What is a provisional patent application?
A provisional application secures an early filing (priority) date for an invention and gives you 12 months to file a complete or international application. It is not a granted patent and is not examined.
Does “patent pending” protect my idea?
“Patent pending” means an application has been filed. It establishes your filing date but does not by itself grant rights or stop others — protection only arises if and when a patent is granted. No outcome is guaranteed.
What is a PCT application?
A PCT (international) application is a single filing that preserves the right to seek patents in over 150 countries and sets an international filing date. It is not an international patent; patents are granted later, country by country, at national-phase entry.
Do I need a registered patent attorney?
A registered attorney is engaged at every step of our process. Patent drafting and strategy are specialised, and a registered attorney's involvement is what makes a filing credible.
All filings are patent-pending applications, not granted patents. Registered attorney engaged at every step. No outcome guaranteed.
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Provisional Filings, not granted patents. Registered attorney engaged at every step. No outcome guaranteed.