At a growth-stage company, the patent budget quietly sets the limit on the portfolio. Outside counsel costs draw board-level scrutiny, engineers lose hours to IP admin, and the filing-volume mindset means strategic inventions get cut to fit the number. The question becomes what can we afford rather than what should we protect, and portfolio quality is exactly what the next funding round depends on.

This on-demand session challenges that tradeoff directly. Investor and attorney Sam Garcia of Amplo, patent attorney David Ashton of Patterson and Sheridan, and Tradespace CEO Alec Sorensen rerun the economics of patent filing, from the true cost of traditional outside counsel versus AI-assisted managed filing to what becomes possible when the same budget supports far more strategic coverage. They get into the second-order effects too, including how increased filing velocity reshapes examiner strategy, invention harvesting, and the role of the modern IP attorney across legal, business, and technology.

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