For founders

Answer the defensibility question
in writing

Whether you are raising, launching a crowdfunding campaign or shipping open source, the same question keeps arriving: what stops a bigger company from doing this? IPGuru turns your answer into documents.

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Recognize yourself?

If any of these sound familiar, this page is for you

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The investor question

You are building a product and investors keep asking what is defensible about it.

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The crowdfunding launch

You need renders, a video and confidence that nobody already owns the idea before the campaign page goes live.

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The open-source release

You want your work published defensively, so nobody can patent it out from under the community.

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Deliberate decisions

You need to decide what to patent, what to keep secret and what to publish, with reasons you can repeat.

What you walk away with

Five gated steps, real deliverables at every one

The FORGE method is proprietary to IPGuru: you approve the evidence at every gate, and a weak Grade loops the work back instead of letting it through.

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Focus

Your core invention, documented

What it is, what is defensible about it, and which roadmap items are actually inventions rather than features.

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Observe

The landscape, before you commit

Competitor patents mapped across 250M+ records. A blocking patent becomes a design-around, not a surprise at diligence.

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Refine

Launch-ready visuals and a draft

Product renders, 3D models and a short video for the campaign page or pitch deck, plus patent figures, claims and description.

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Grade

A scored mock examination

The application graded against a rubric before an investor, backer or examiner reads it.

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Execute

Your moat, in writing

A filing pack, a defensive publication for what you open-source, or a documented trade-secret decision. Diligence reads it in an afternoon.

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Take this page with you

A two-sided PDF of this persona, made to forward or print.

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From the platform

The launch render and the patent figures, from one model

The AuraGrip controller concept: the same 3D model that sells the product on a campaign page becomes the figures in the application. One identity, from pitch to filing.

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Put defensibility in writing.

Before the next partner meeting, the launch page, or the release.

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