Run an innovative, efficient IP practice

Though involving creative works, IP law can be just as rigid and time-consuming as other practice areas. Prosecuting patent applications, litigating copyright infringements, advising innovators on timing and strategy of trademark protections, and drafting IP agreements can cause headaches for even the most seasoned attorney.  Much of this work can involve drafting correspondence with government agencies and other counsel, collecting information about the intellectual property, and other tasks and filings that can benefit from automation. 

Enter Gavel. Gavel empowers legal professionals to streamline their practices through document automation to reduce the time spent (and errors made) on repetitive drafting and document generation tasks. Gavel is a software platform that allows lawyers to build questionnaires (also called workflows) that, when answered, auto-fill the appropriate form or template.

These customized questionnaires can be completed by the lawyer or client, as lawyers can embed legal guidance, videos, and explanations within them. A completed questionnaire is then one click away from being a fully completed legal work product. In this way, lawyers can use Gavel to “build a Turbotax” for intellectual property and monetize their work at scale.

The practice of intellectual property law can be tedious and time-sensitive. There is a good amount of information that must be collected to begin your representation, including, for example, a specific description of the client’s invention.  There are conditions inventors must meet (and prove) before obtaining IP protection over their creative works, and details throughout infringement litigation must be included to move forward. Omitting any of these key details could spell disaster.  Additionally, IP contracts must also contain certain components to be enforceable. Moreover, aside from the substantive work, intellectual property also requires the lawyers to be able to explain the law to their clients, who may not have had to work within such confines before. 

In this way, it’s crucial for IP lawyers to be precise, efficient, and effective communicators with their clients.

Gavel can automate your practice from even the start of the attorney-client relationship with a smart intake questionnaire. IP lawyers can create customizable intake questionnaires that can be drafted to capture all the information needed from a client, with info bubbles and even embedded videos to guide the client through the process. A thoughtfully created intake that has the necessary questions and question follow-ups for each client, means the legal team is sure to get as much information as possible with minimal work after the initial questionnaire setup. In this way, Gavel helps legal professionals discover what they need to know about their clients’ intellectual property assets by merely sending a Gavel questionnaire so they can focus on more productive legal work. With a comprehensive intake, the information gathered there can then populate several different types of output documents in one click.

‍Gavel can also automate briefs, correspondence, and contracts with Gavel’s AI tool, Blueprint. With Gavel's AI tool, Blueprint, lawyers can simply upload documents such as licensing agreements once, and let Blueprint scan the upload and suggest custom questions to populate the questionnaire.  Because Gavel’s platform allows lawyers to accept or reject any rules, and the resulting workflow is rules-based, the AI is both reliable and controllable, removing any ethical concerns about using AI in law practice. Embracing AI-driven new technologies can help you speed up the process, and you can tailor the documents created this way to fit different jurisdictions.

‍In addition to the automated workflows that output external legal documents, Gavel offers a client portal for easy information gathering and progress updates. Gavel lets you centralize all the documents for a case in one secure location, accessible to both clients and legal professionals.

Gavel provides: 

Gavel has a range of features that make it ideal for your intellectual property law practice:

Gavel has helped several IP law firms better serve their existing clients, reduce routine paperwork, and expand their reach.

On average, IP lawyers that use Gavel for their client intake and onboarding process have reported that they cut the time they spend on intake by 13x.

‍Litson PLLC was able to reduce the time spent on creating engagement letters for new clients from half a day to a few minutes. ”If there's something we can automate in Gavel, we shouldn’t use lawyer brain power, we should save that for the hard questions,” says Alex Little, managing partner of the firm. Using Gavel has saved Litson the equivalent of 1-1.5 staff members.

Using Gavel, jusTech created a breach reporting tool for small businesses that won a Pan-Canada Tech Law award and has helped the company scale globally.

Gavel gives you:

Gavel’s streamlined client onboarding process, info-bubble functions, intuitive intake forms, and centralized document management system are powerful features for anyone practicing IP law. Here are a few ways you can use Gavel to revolutionize your intellectual property law practice.

With IP law, there's no room for error. Gavel allows you to streamline and scale your IP law business and mitigates the human error component with highly customizable and rule-embedded workflows.

‍Start a free trial today and see how Gavel can transform your practice.