IP Services & Software
For Small to Mid-Size Corporations
Scale your IP operations without the stress of managing a dedicated in-house team with Black Hill AI’s IP outsourcing for small to mid-size corporations.
Let’s Discuss Your IP Needs
Drive Sustainable Growth
With IP Services & Tools for Your Expanding Business
Managing your IP can be challenging without in-house counsel or dedicated resources, often diverting your focus from core business activities.
Black Hills AI is here to help.
Our solutions scale with your needs, offering top-notch docketing, on-demand renewal cost projections, and full visibility through our cloud portal. Our U.S.-based team is ready to provide support, allowing you to manage your IP confidently while concentrating on growing your business.
Right-Sized IP Services
For Your Mid-Sized Corporation
Outsourced Paralegal Services
Our U.S.-based paralegals can instantly address staffing gaps or provide seamless support during a team member’s leave or vacation. This provides a strategic resource that avoids the complex and expensive hiring and onboarding process.
IP Management System Integration
We work in almost every IP management system, helping you find and integrate one that fits your specific needs. We serve as an intelligent engine that simplifies the management of your portfolio, so you can focus on building your business.
Strategic Recommendations
Partner with experienced IP attorneys to optimize your business’s scaling operations. Our team goes beyond automation to make proactive recommendations, identifying opportunities to enhance your internal processes for greater efficiency.
Patent Prosecution Support
We provide free prosecution analytics that offer insights into all pertinent matters pending in the USPTO. This helps your team make informed decisions on high-value assets, which you may lack the budget or expertise to get otherwise.
Tailored Software Solutions
For Your Expanding Business
Our SureDocket™ subscription docketing service is readily scalable to your size. It seamlessly delivers premier docketing directly into your IP management system, handling what you want or need and skipping the rest.
As an IP-centric AI tool, Otto IP acts as a strategic legal assistant, accelerating research and patent drafting to boost your team’s efficiency, freeing them to conduct high-value work that enables sustainable organizational growth.
Our renewals platform provides on-demand cost projections and allows “what-if” planning to help guide your decisions. This helps you manage your budget and make strategic decisions without needing in-house expertise.
Our DocketSaver™ service provides an instant system check, identifying and catching costly errors before they can create liability and costly damage for your business. This acts as a critical layer of quality control for your dedicated team.
Our Honu platform brings order and structure to your international work, replacing messy email chains with a structured data system that streamlines international docketing for your most complex cases.
Protect your business from errors that derail growth with an unparalleled layer of security. Our SureDocket™ subscription includes the dual docketing of critical deadlines, ensuring world-class matter tracking is delivered directly into your IP management system.
All docketing work is visible in our cloud portal, giving your team complete transparency and real-time access to all processed items, dockets, and correspondence history from anywhere. This establishes a single source of truth for your business.
Ensure every new matter is opened with speed and accuracy. Our experienced team and innovative File Opening Supervisor system are experts in high-volume file opening, providing a standardized and reliable process that fills a key staffing gap.
About Black Hills AI
IP Tools for Small to Mid-Size Corporations
Founded by experienced IP attorneys, Black Hills AI offers accurate solutions for streamlined portfolio management.
We’ve faced the challenges of growing businesses ourselves, enabling us to provide impeccable docketing, transparent IP renewals, and our attorney-built Otto IP™ AI tools. As a trusted partner, we help alleviate operational complexities, allowing your legal team to focus on strategic growth and innovation.
Benefits of Our IP Consulting & Services
For Small to Mid-Size Corporations Like Yours
Mitigate Cost & Risk
Our fully-managed automation significantly lowers your operational costs, providing a more cost-effective solution than investing in hiring and training an additional employee. With an error rate better than Six Sigma, our system eliminates human error, protecting your business from the high liability of costly mistakes.
Solve Staffing Challenges Instantly
For a growing business, a key staff member's absence creates critical gaps in your processes that curb growth. Our highly scalable services can immediately shore up these gaps without time-consuming and costly hiring, providing a consistent solution for managing workload to ensure business continuity.
Focus On Revenue-Generating Work
Free your team from tedious administrative burdens so they can dedicate their valuable time to the high-value work that grows your business. Our solutions improve efficiency and consistency across your operations, ensuring your team can focus on the business goals that define your success.
Gain a Trusted U.S.-Based Partner
In a smaller business, you need a partner you can trust. As a U.S.-based company founded by experienced IP attorneys, we eliminate the security risks associated with offshore providers. Our responsive team provides a seamless extension of your operations, ensuring your portfolio remains secure, consistent, and organized.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Black Hills AI’s IP Services & Software for Small to Mid-Size Corporations
How does Black Hills AI ensure data security and privacy with its AI tools?
Black Hills AI prioritizes discretion and data security above all. Our proprietary AI tools operate within a closed, U.S.-based environment, and we have a strict zero-data retention policy. We never use your confidential data to train our models, eliminating the risks associated with public-facing AI like ChatGPT and ensuring your sensitive information remains secure and compliant with U.S. export controls.
My firm struggles with staffing. How can Black Hills AI help without us having to hire more people?
We are uniquely positioned to assist with your docketing and paralegal needs immediately, with no hiring or onboarding required. Our team and technology can instantly shore up critical gaps caused by staff turnover or an increased workload, acting as a seamless extension of your team. This frees up your existing attorneys and paralegals to focus on strategic, revenue-generating work.
What makes your automation and docketing services more accurate than other solutions?
Our automation was developed by experienced IP attorneys, so it understands the nuances of IP law and patent office processes. This deep expertise, combined with our proprietary technology, allows us to achieve an error rate that is better than Six Sigma. We also offer an extra layer of quality control with our DocketSaver™ service, which verifies your existing docketing to identify and correct errors before they become costly.
How does Black Hills AI compare to offshore outsourcing?
Unlike offshore providers, our entire team and all of our tools are based in the U.S., which removes security risks and compliance concerns directly associated with offshore outsourcing, ensuring your data is always protected.
Our technology-driven approach allows us to deliver impeccable accuracy at a more cost-effective price point than traditional offshore labor, ensuring you get the highest quality service without compromise.
Partner with Black Hills AI Today
Ready to transform your IP operations? Our attorney-built AI tools and IP outsourcing for corporations are designed to help you mitigate risk, optimize costs, and liberate your business to achieve its fullest potential.