Built for IP Law Firms
New Revenue from Clients You Currently Turn Away
Every week, prospective clients contact your firm with innovations worth protecting but no budget for a patent filing. You tell them to come back when they are ready, and most never do. immut lets you offer those clients immediate, affordable IP protection today and build a pipeline of patent-ready clients for tomorrow.
The Challenge
What Keeps IP Law Firms Up at Night
IP protection challenges that ip law firms face every day.
The 'Too Early, Too Expensive' Gap
Clients with genuine innovations contact your firm but are not ready to invest in a full patent application. You have no service to offer them, so they leave unprotected and may never return.
Client Attrition Before Patent Stage
Founders and inventors you speak with early often find other counsel by the time they are ready to file. Without an ongoing relationship, you lose the downstream patent work.
Weak Evidence When Disputes Arise
Clients come to you with IP disputes but lack verifiable proof of when they created their work. Building a case without timestamped evidence is significantly harder and more expensive.
Limited Recurring Revenue From IP Services
Patent filings are high-value but infrequent. Between filings, there is little opportunity to generate ongoing revenue from the same client relationship.
The Solution
How immut Fits Your Workflow
Blockchain-verified IP protection designed for how ip law firms actually work.
Offer Immediate Protection to Every Prospect
Recommend immut to clients who are not yet ready for a patent. They get blockchain-verified proof of their innovations in 60 seconds, keeping them protected and connected to your firm.
Build a Patent-Ready Pipeline
Clients who use immut build a timestamped evidence trail as they develop their IP. When they are ready to file, they come to you with organised documentation and a clear innovation timeline.
Strengthen Your Clients' Legal Position
Blockchain timestamps create court-ready evidence of creation dates, accepted in US, EU, and UK jurisdictions. This gives your clients stronger standing in disputes and makes your work more effective.
Generate Recurring Revenue
Earn referral revenue from every client you recommend to immut. Turn a lost consultation into an ongoing income stream while providing genuine value to the client.
Real-World Scenario
A Day in the Life: IP Attorney Growing a Client Pipeline
Mark is a patent attorney at a 12-person boutique IP firm. He takes four initial consultations per week. On average, two of those clients are not ready to file a patent, either because their innovation is still developing or because the budget is not there yet.
Monday consultation: A biotech founder has promising research but needs another 6-12 months of development before a patent makes sense. Instead of saying 'come back later,' Mark recommends immut to protect her work immediately.
The founder signs up and begins timestamping lab results, formulations, and research notes. She stays connected to Mark's firm through the immut partnership dashboard.
Eight months later, the founder is ready to file. She returns to Mark with a complete, timestamped record of her development process, making the patent application stronger and the prior art position clearer.
Mark's firm earns referral revenue during the interim period and wins the patent filing. The client's timestamped evidence trail also reduces the time Mark spends documenting the invention timeline.
A client who would have walked away becomes a long-term relationship generating both referral revenue and patent fees, with better-documented IP from day one.
Benefits
Why IP Law Firms Choose immut
Revenue from the Protection Gap
Monetise the clients you currently turn away. Every prospect who is not ready for a patent becomes a potential immut referral.
Client Retention
Keep early-stage clients in your ecosystem. When they are ready for formal protection, you are the firm they already trust.
Patent Pipeline Builder
Clients arrive at the patent stage with timestamped evidence trails, making the filing process smoother and better documented.
Stronger Dispute Evidence
Blockchain timestamps are recognised as evidence under US Federal Rules of Evidence, EU eIDAS Regulation, and UK Civil Evidence Act 1995.
Complementary to Your Practice
immut is not an alternative to patents. It is the bridge that protects clients during the window between idea and formal filing, making your services more valuable.
White-Label Partnership Options
Offer immut under your firm's brand. Clients see it as part of your service portfolio, strengthening your firm's position as a full-spectrum IP advisor.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Does immut compete with our patent practice?
No. immut is complementary to patents, not a substitute. It protects clients during the gap before they are ready to file, then feeds them back to your firm with better-documented IP when they are ready for formal protection. It creates patent work, not replaces it.
How does the referral revenue model work?
Your firm earns recurring revenue for every client you refer to immut. The partnership is structured so your interests are aligned: the more clients you protect through immut, the more revenue you generate and the stronger your patent pipeline becomes. Contact us for specific terms.
Is blockchain timestamping legally recognised?
Yes. Blockchain timestamps are accepted as evidence under the US Federal Rules of Evidence, EU eIDAS Regulation, and UK Civil Evidence Act 1995. A French Commercial Court accepted blockchain evidence in a 2023 precedent case. immut provides court-ready certificates that legal teams can present directly.
What types of firms is this suited for?
immut partners best with boutique IP firms of 2-50 attorneys who regularly consult with early-stage innovators, startups, and inventors. If your firm turns away prospects who are not ready for patents, immut turns those conversations into revenue.
How does this fit into our existing client workflow?
immut requires no change to your existing processes. During initial consultations where a patent is premature, you simply recommend immut as an interim protection step. The client signs up independently, and your firm earns referral revenue. When the client is ready to file, they return to you.
Ready to Protect Your IP?
Book a call to see how immut gives ip law firms instant, blockchain-verified proof of their innovations. Get protected on the call.