Drafting · Response preparation · Overflow support
Experienced, personally prepared support for defined patent drafting and response assignments, including overflow capacity for in-house patent teams and professional representatives. Work is focused principally on mechanical, electromechanical and medical technology. Scope, timetable and a commercially attractive fixed fee are agreed before work begins.
Senior-level work, personally prepared. Client technical materials are not submitted to generative AI systems to produce the work product.
Defined-fee support
Vertus undertakes discrete drafting and response assignments for corporate clients, in-house patent departments and professional representatives. After a short review, the deliverable, timing and commercially attractive fixed fee are confirmed in writing.
Defined-scope drafting from invention disclosures, existing specifications or other technical material.
A considered draft response as a self-contained assignment, scoped after the objections and relevant file have been reviewed.
Experienced additional capacity for a discrete matter, without adding permanent resource.
Experience behind the work
All substantive drafting and response preparation is undertaken personally by a European Patent Attorney who qualified in 1996.
Vertus works principally in mechanical engineering, electromechanical technologies and medical technology. The practice is led by Keith Boden, a member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi). His technical background includes a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering and a PhD in Physics.
The attorney you speak with is the attorney who prepares the substantive work.
No generative AI is used to draft the work product.
A commercially attractive fixed fee is agreed for the defined task.
How it works
Every enquiry begins with a formal conflict-of-interest check. Once the matter has been cleared, a short initial review allows Vertus to define the individual assignment, completed deliverable, timetable and fee before substantive work begins.
Email a brief, non-confidential outline of the proposed assignment and identify the relevant parties. A formal conflict-of-interest check begins immediately on receipt, and Vertus will confirm promptly whether the matter can be accepted.
Following clearance, provide the relevant materials. Vertus confirms the defined deliverable, timing and commercially attractive fixed fee in writing.
The agreed work is undertaken personally and delivered for review or onward use, without generative AI producing the work product.
Clear boundaries
Start a conversation
Begin with a brief, non-confidential description of the drafting or response assignment, its timing and the relevant parties. Vertus will complete a conflict check before asking for confidential materials.
Email enquiries
mail@vertus.uk