Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Brad.

 

I got my start in 2009 at a large Japanese patent law firm managing their U.S. direct filing and prosecution operations. While there, I learned a great deal about international patent application management and U.S. patent prosecution. In fact, I set up the law firm's first U.S. filing and prosecution for direct filing of U.S. patent applications from Japan for (mainly) Japanese clients. I also learned to read Japanese patent applications and became intimately familiar with the drafting and prosecution style in Japan - which is the opposite of the U.S. in many ways!

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In 2013, I contracted with a high-volume U.S. prosecution firm to head up an office in Tokyo. I hired and trained paralegal staff and within a few months, I created a fully-functioning prosecution operation.  For the next seven years, I prosecuted nearly 1,000 U.S. patent applications for large Japanese companies in nearly every technology field, developed client business, and trained more than 1,000 Japanese patent attorneys and translators in Tokyo and around Japan. 

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However, after several years, I began to realize that working for a law firm limited the services I could provide to clients. Specifically, I noticed that U.S. patent "training" was not having any lasting effects on client companies. Many companies sent their patent attorneys to U.S. patent training programs, however, the companies continued with the same "old" U.S. patent processes based on Japan patent practice. Because Japanese patent practice is different from the U.S., this tended to cause a lot of problems such as unnecessary Office actions, lower patent quality, unnecessary Pre-Appeals, and the like. This cost (and continues to cost) the clients a lot of money. However, at the same time, the outside U.S. firms were billing the clients for these extra costs.

 

I wanted to help these companies change to reduce costs (and frustration) associated with U.S. patent prosecution, while increasing patent quality. Unfortunately, providing the needed support to the clients would conflict with the business practices of the firm. I started to notice that "training" many U.S. law firms provided to the companies was actually a business development tool to get U.S. patent application filing and prosecution work. I felt that the training was creating confusion for the companies which would cause them to rely on outside firms more and not less. I wanted to provide support to the clients that went beyond training. Support that would have real and lasting benefits to the clients. I realized that I would need to end my contractual relationship with my current firm to do this.

 

In early 2017, I began developing what would eventually become Patent Loop™ and Translator Reset™. I gathered all of my case work notes, training notes, feedback documents I had been collecting since 2009, and analyzed them carefully to determine what problems clients really needed to solve, and how to solve them. I created custom data from more than 1,000 patent applications from more than 100 companies to discover how each client approached their U.S. patent prosecution management.

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For the next three years, I tested as many aspects of Patent Loop and Translator Reset that I could, and in 2020, I ended my contract with the law firm and launched COPELY IP+ so that I could provide support services to client companies that their U.S. firms or other outside IP service companies do not, cannot, and will not provide.

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