IP Renewals Services & Solutions

for Law Firms

Your Clients Deserve Expert Care.
Your Firm Deserves Peace of Mind.
Offload burdensome tasks to mitigate risk so you can focus on impactful, revenue-generating legal work with Black Hills Renewals.

Schedule an IP Renewals Consultation

We Adapt to Your Preferred Workflow

Managing your IP renewals shouldn’t be a burden, no matter how many you have.

Black Hills Renewals offers a scalable platform that provides you with control and transparency. Use our secure system to manage client annuities yourself, hand off the process to us completely, or stay involved in specific areas.

Refer your clients to us to handle their renewals so you can cross them off your to-do list.

A Partnership that Empowers Your Firm

Hands-Off

You simply refer your clients to us and cross off “annuities” from your to-dos. All interactions take place between the client and us.

Escalation

While the client remains directly responsible for annuity payments, your law firm has access to the data and may get involved in the instruction process in certain situations.

Oversight

Your law firm directly manages client annuities within our system. Each client you manage will be separated by portfolio for easy invoicing and tracking purposes.

Transform Renewals from a Burdensome Risk into a Strategic Advantage

Managing your clients’ long-term IP renewals can strain your firm’s valuable resources and create costly, unnecessary risks.

Instead of continuing to manage this low-margin, high-liability service, you can keep your clients happy by referring them to Black Hills Renewals.

Black Hills Renewals is the most seamless and easy-to-use solution on the market.

This partnership transforms renewals from a risk into a strategic advantage, allowing you to dedicate more time to profitable client matters that fuel firm growth.

Gain Access to IP Expertise

White Glove Services

Rest assured that your clients are in good hands with our personalized service model.

Transparent Pricing

100% transparent pricing, free from hidden fees or currency exchange markups.

No Minimum Portfolio Size

Service all your clients, from those with a single annuity payment per year to those with thousands.

Specialists Available

Our U.S.-based team of renewal specialists is always available to provide expert support.

Flexible Payment Terms

Flexible payment terms and multiple payment methods to accommodate client needs.

Additional Black Hills Renewals Features

Annual evidence of use scanning to help make decisions and determine patent value.

Provide your clients with strategic insights into competitor patent activities.

Easily categorize and analyze client portfolios for deeper strategic insights.

Empower clients with integrated tools to accurately forecast annuity costs and manage IP budget.

Leverage analytics to help clients make data-based strategic decisions, not just date-based ones.

Streamline your administrative workload with our auto-invoicing feature to fit your preferred processes.

Ensure your clients’ patents remain in good standing with effortless auto-pay functionality.

Annual evidence of use scanning to help make decisions and determine patent value.

Benefits of Our IP Renewals for Law Firms

Mitigate Risk

Offload a high-liability service and dedicate more time and energy to impactful, revenue-generating legal work.

Strengthen Client Relationships

Provide a trusted and specialized solution and reinforce your firm’s position as an intellectual property law leader.

Increase Profitability

Focus your team on core business initiatives instead of low-margin administrative tasks.

Eliminate Conflicts

Cleanly disengage from clients after prosecution, freeing your firm from long-term conflicts that could prevent new business.

Law Firm Partnership & Referral Program Join Law Firms Who Trust Black Hills With Their Clients

Limit your liability and keep your clients happy by referring them to Black Hills Renewals, the most seamless, easy‑to‑use solution on the market. We offer law firms several ways to work with us, from a hands-off approach where all interactions take place between us and your client, to an oversight model where you directly manage your client’s annuities within our system. Our hand-off process is simple and seamless, kicking off with a single email from you. You can rest assured your clients are in good hands.

Hear From Black Hills Renewals Customers

“Ward Law Office has been pleased to work with the docketing and maintenance/renewal teams at Black Hills IP. Their professionalism, responsiveness, and attention to detail is excellent. We can recommend Black Hills IP for these services without reservation.”

– Jacob Ward, Founder & Attorney, Ward Patent Law

“Paying annuities was a horrible chore … there have been a number of advantages in moving to Black Hills IP Renewals. For starters, it’s been hugely helpful being able to run a cost model on both individual patents and on patent families that aid in strategic decision-making. We love utilizing custom tags by technology applicability, M&A, licenses and relevance to competition, and third-party obligations.”

– David Joyal, VP Legal, Global Supply, and Patent, Coty Inc.

“The granularity of the data on this system is astounding. It is far more user-friendly than any other annuity system. You’re going to love it.”

– Glen Belvis, Principal, Belvis Law LLC

“The power of this platform is that it provides objective roots to decision-making. You can evaluate your IP by forward citations, by how many cases were filed by that class in that year and then plan subsequent activity. Lastly, you can provide cost predictability. If I need to provide an immediate 20% budget reduction, let’s model that a couple ways on my annuity budget and give it to the business to make decisions and explain what they get for each level of spend. This tool allows you to do that and is tremendously powerful.”