Patent filings worldwide continue to rise every year, yet the process of drafting and prosecuting patents remains remarkably similar to how it was decades ago. While legal technology has transformed contracts, discovery, and compliance, patent drafting and prosecution still rely on slow, manual, and fragmented workflows.
That’s exactly what IP Author set out to change.
Today, we’re proud to announce that IP Author has raised funding from eLab Ventures and Illuminate Ventures. This funding represents a key milestone that will help IP Author drive innovation, strengthen its technology, and expand operations worldwide.
Trusted by Global Patent Teams
Since its launch, IP Author has gained rapid adoption among patent attorneys, in-house counsels, and enterprise IP teams across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
“This funding helps us move faster toward our goal of making patent drafting and prosecution faster, easier, and more reliable through AI that enhances attorney productivity. “Samir Raiyani, CEO of IP Author.
The platform is used by customers across major corporations and law firms, helping them reduce drafting time by up to 40–60% while maintaining accuracy and legal rigour.
The All-in-One AI Workspace for Patent Professionals
IP Author unifies everything patent professionals need into one intelligent workspace:
- AI-powered drafting: Generate full patent applications—claims, specifications, and abstracts in hours instead of days.
- Conversational claim refinement: Attorneys can iterate naturally and refine scope with precision.
- Integrated prior art search: Automatically identify relevant prior art and feed insights into the drafting workflow.
- Office Action response generation: Create accurate draft responses in minutes with AI-powered summarisation and argument generation.
- Collaboration built in: Review, edit, and finalise with colleagues and clients securely in one place.
Unlike tools that focus on isolated tasks, IP Author brings the entire drafting, search, and response workflow into a single, seamless platform built with direct feedback from practising patent attorneys.
Partnering with eLab Ventures and Illuminate Ventures
The participation of eLab Ventures and Illuminate Ventures brings not just capital but also deep expertise in AI innovation and enterprise software scaling. Their support validates IP Author’s mission to deliver human-centered AI that augments, not replaces, attorney expertise.
The new funding will enable IP Author to expand its research and engineering teams, strengthen its presence across the U.S. and Europe, and scale customer success operations to support a rapidly growing global user base. At the same time, the company is enhancing its draft optimisation engine, deepening prior art integration, and advancing workflow automation so attorneys can move seamlessly from invention disclosure to final filing within a single intelligent workspace.