Your IP department, between filings.
Startups file a patent, then nothing happens for a year. Watch is the part of a patent department that keeps working: it tells you who filed what in your space every week, reads your repositories for inventions you forgot to protect, and keeps every matter, deadline and document in one view. $149 a month, cancel any time.
What Watch does every week.
Name the competitors, topics and patent classes that matter. Every Monday you get the publications and grants from the past week, with one line on why each matters to what you are building.
Connect a GitHub repository. On your schedule Tao AI reads what changed, and when it sees a candidate invention it opens a draft matter with a note on what it saw. You decide whether to continue.
Every matter with its stage, plan and the next date that matters, such as the day a provisional must be converted. No spreadsheet.
The same $300 report you can buy on its own: a full search across patents, applications and literature, written up with an overlap map before any filing decision.
Invention capture, questions about the process, strategy prompts written with your attorney, all on the records you already have in the portal.
Your company context, glossary, inventors and prior filings stay with you, so the second application starts from the first. Yours to export or delete.
Tao AI without limits, a portfolio page with every matter, stage and deadline, competitor monitoring with a weekly digest, repository scanning that surfaces new inventions, one prior art search report a quarter, and invention memory on.
- Weekly digest: who filed what in your space
- Repository scanning on your schedule
- One prior art search report a quarter
- Portfolio, deadlines and documents in one view
Software output, not legal advice.
Tao IP Counsel, $300 a month.
Watch is software. Counsel is your patent attorney on retainer: unlimited questions in the portal answered within one business day, a strategy call every quarter, a review of your portfolio and roadmap, and a first look at every new filing before it goes out. A legal service of F. Chau & Associates, LLC; MSL Group LLC collects it on the firm’s behalf.
See both in the portalHow it starts.
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Subscribe from Plans and products in the portal. Checkout is hosted by Stripe; no card details touch the portal.
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On the Portfolio page, add the competitors, topics and classes to watch and connect a repository.
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The first digest arrives on Monday. Scans run on the schedule you pick, and every candidate lands as a draft matter you can continue with Tao AI.
Questions about Watch.
Is Watch legal advice?
No. Watch is software from MSL Group LLC. The digest, the scans and Tao AI are software output, not legal advice. Your attorney gives legal advice inside a plan or on Tao IP Counsel.
What does the digest search?
US patent publications and grants, by applicant name, topic and CPC class, from the USPTO’s public data and Google Patents. Each item links to the document.
What does scanning read, and what is kept?
The commit messages and diffs since the last scan, read in memory and sent to the AI provider under paid API terms with no training. Nothing from the repository is stored except the candidate note Tao AI writes on the matter. A read only token is encrypted at rest and can be revoked on GitHub at any time.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time, from Plans and products. Monthly plans end at the end of the period; the yearly plan is two months free and runs to its end date.