Clarify what is technically different before you invest in the wrong feature.
WJH helps founders and product teams define the inventive concept, identify technically relevant prior art, and organize the differences for productive and efficient discussion with patent counsel.
Invention decomposition
Separate the concept into mechanism, geometry, material, energy delivery, workflow, interfaces, and functional relationships that matter to novelty.
Prior-art technical review
Search and screen patents, applications, publications, products, and known approaches for technically comparable disclosures more efficiently than counsel.
Differentiation matrix
Compare the proposed concepts with relevant references using an engineering feature matrix that makes similarities and differences explicit for counsel and the team.
Concept-development guidance
Identify areas where additional engineering differentiation, supporting data, or alternative architecture may strengthen the technical story before filing.
Useful before patent drafting — and before heavy engineering spend.
A focused technical review can help prevent teams from spending months optimizing a feature that is already crowded by prior art, while revealing other aspects of the system that may deserve more development attention.
WJH's assessment is technical support and can greatly reduce counsel spending. However, filing strategy and formal legal conclusions should be handled by qualified patent counsel.
Typical output.
Search concept map
Key technical concepts, synonyms, architecture terms, and related device categories.
Prior-art table
Relevant references organized by date, patent family, technical concept, and degree of similarity.
Counsel-ready technical summary
A concise description of the proposed invention, known references, and key technical differentiators for legal review.