IP Consulting & Services
For Large IP Law Firms
Scale your IP operations without the stress of managing a dedicated in-house team with Black Hills AI’s IP outsourcing for small to mid-size corporations.
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Unify Your Firm’s Global IP Operations
in Real-Time with IP Attorney-Built AI
Managing high-volume portfolios across multiple offices creates complexity, with disconnected workflows posing risks and hindering quality control.
Black Hills AI centralizes your IP practice by integrating with existing systems for docketing, renewals, and paralegal services. This provides a unified view of your global portfolio, ensures accuracy, and allows attorneys to focus on high-value client strategy instead of administrative tasks.
Unified Solutions
For Your Enterprise Practice
Outsourced Paralegal Services
Deploy flexible, scalable support to manage fluctuating workloads across any office or practice group. Our U.S.-based paralegals can instantly address staffing gaps or overflow work, providing a strategic resource that avoids complex hiring and onboarding processes.
IP Management System Integration
Enhance the powerful systems you already have in place. We seamlessly connect with all major IP management platforms, serving as an intelligent engine that boosts your current system’s capabilities overnight, with no modifications to your firm’s established processes.
Strategic Recommendations
Partner with experienced IP attorneys to optimize your firm’s operations. Our team goes beyond automation to make proactive recommendations, identifying opportunities to enhance your internal processes for greater enterprise-wide efficiency.
Patent Prosecution Support
Equip your litigation and prosecution teams with critical data. We provide free prosecution analytics that offer insights into all pertinent matters pending in the USPTO, helping to inform your decision-making process on high-value assets.
Enterprise Software Upgrades
To Enhance Your Firm
Implement a firm-wide standard for accuracy that eliminates risk across your entire portfolio. Our system automatically processes correspondence from patent offices, achieving an error rate better than Six Sigma to ensure every team operates with the same world-class precision.
Empower your associates and boost firm-wide efficiency. Otto IP functions as a secure, strategic legal assistant that accelerates document creation, research, and patent drafting, enhancing productivity across all practice groups.
Centralize this high-liability, low-margin function to reduce risk and free up your attorneys for strategic client work. Our secure and transparent renewals platform ensures your clients’ global IP assets are protected, removing operational burdens and potential conflicts of interest.
Add a firm-wide layer of quality control to your existing docketing. Our DocketSaver™ service provides an instant system check, identifying and catching costly errors before they can create liability for your firm or harm a client’s IP.
Bring order and structure to your global portfolio management. Our Honu platform replaces messy email chains with a structured data system that streamlines international docketing and correspondence for your most complex international work.
Protect your firm from catastrophic, non-recoverable errors with an unparalleled layer of security. Our SureDocket™ subscription includes the dual docketing of critical deadlines, with world-class matter tracking delivered directly into your IP management system.
Establish a single source of truth for your entire firm. Our cloud portal provides complete, real-time transparency, giving authorized partners and teams access to all processed items, dockets, your entire correspondence history, and prosecution analytics from any office.
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, ensuring a standardized, reliable process across your entire firm.
Seamlessly migrate dockets from an acquired firm’s AppColl system into your primary IP management platform, ensuring data integrity and a smooth, secure transition. This capability also allows us to efficiently manage specific, cost-sensitive client portfolios that may not require a seat in your main enterprise system.
About Black Hills AI
IP Outsourcing & Software Solutions for Large Law Firms
Founded by experienced IP attorneys, Black Hills AI offers accurate solutions for streamlined portfolio management.
We understand the challenges faced by large firms and provide flawless docketing through proprietary automation, transparent IP renewals, and our Otto IP™ AI tools. As a trusted partner, we simplify operations, allowing your legal team to focus on strategic growth and innovation.
Benefits of Our IP Consulting & Services
For Large Law Firms
Mitigate Cost & Risk
Scale your IP operation without increasing risk. Our fully-managed automation significantly lowers your firm's liability and operational costs. With an error rate better than Six Sigma, our system eliminates human error and provides a more cost-effective solution than maintaining a potentially inefficient internal department.
Focus On Revenue-Generating Work
With immense operational complexity, partners are often pulled into administrative friction and oversight. Our solutions improve efficiency and consistency across your entire firm, ensuring every member of your team can focus on client interactions that define your reputation.
Solve Staffing Challenges Instantly
For large firms, staff turnover creates operational drag and administrative friction across your entire firm. Our highly scalable services can immediately shore up critical gaps in your processes without time-consuming hiring, providing a consistent solution for handling large file transfers and overflow work. This ensures firm-wide continuity, regardless of changes to your paralegal or administrative teams.
Gain a Trusted U.S.-Based Partner
With a multi-national operation, centralizing control and ensuring firm-wide standards are paramount. As a U.S.-based company founded by experienced IP attorneys, we eliminate the security risks associated with offshore providers. Our responsive team ensures your entire global portfolio remains secure, consistent, and organized across all teams, freeing partners to focus on strategic initiatives.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Black Hills AI’s IP Consulting & Services for Mid-Size IP Law Firms
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 IP AI software for mid-size law firms is designed to help you mitigate risk, optimize costs, and liberate your practice to achieve its fullest potential.