Founder
Jack Zhu
PRC-qualified patent practitioner and lawyer
Founder of Invention Village Ltd (UK) and founding partner of Beijing Guanhequan Law Firm. After twenty years in patent prosecution and litigation, he set the rules this product will not break.
Why I built this
I have spent twenty years in patent prosecution and litigation. I have seen plenty of good technology written up badly, and plenty of applications reporting experiments nobody ran. The first costs the inventor. The second comes back at examination or in court.
I built this so R&D teams can sort out, check and write down what they actually did before they brief a professional. So I gave it a few rules: it does not invent data, it does not promise a grant, and its citations must be checkable against the source. Its job is to express your real R&D faithfully.
— Jack Zhu
The rules he set for the product
- When drafting, it does not invent experimental data or effects. A value with no source in your disclosure is replaced with a blank and listed for you to check.
- Patents and legal provisions it cites are checked against their source; anything that cannot be checked is flagged.
- It does not promise a grant.
- It does not file anything with a patent office on your behalf.
- What it produces are R&D records and drafts, to be reviewed by a registered patent practitioner before filing.
These rules are enforced by automated checks, and AI can still get things wrong. He does not review individual outputs, and nothing the product produces is legal advice.
Legal career
This is the founder's own legal career. The firms listed have no connection with this product.
- Jones Day, US — patent litigation
- Rouse, UK — patent litigation
- Wilkinson & Grist, Hong Kong — patent prosecution and litigation
- King & Wood Mallesons, Beijing — patent prosecution and litigation
Books and teaching
Patent Monetization (《专利变现》)
Mastering Patents in Two Hours (《2 小时玩转专利》)
Trademarks Are No Small Matter (《商标可不是小事》)
Tsinghua University Press
Invited several times by Beijing IP to teach patent commercialisation to its core team.