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Invention evaluation
Prior art landscape plus a file / don't-file / file-with-modifications recommendation from a Dolcera evaluator.
Since 2004
Dolcera is an AI-native IP services firm.
Built on twenty years of IP domain depth, a proprietary agentic engine called Lexa, and pod-based delivery that ships decision-ready work product.
Trusted by the world's largest tech firms, licensors, and consumer brands — on the matters where the call has to be right.
- $60B+M&A & licensing supported
- $10B+High-stakes litigation
- 4,000+Claim charts & EoUs
- 3,500+Prior-art & invalidity (24mo)
The principle
Expert judgment where judgment is decisive.
Agent execution everywhere else.
That is what AI-native means at Dolcera.
01 — Three things to know
The argument in three lines.
Domain expertise and agentic AI built into the same delivery model — not stitched together, not bolted on. What follows is how that works.
Claim 01 — Where we sit
Where deep IP expertise meets agentic AI.
Dolcera is one of a small number of firms with both deep IP domain expertise and a real agentic AI engine.
Why it matters
- SEP claim charts
anchor licensing negotiations valued in hundreds of thousands of dollars per patent and millions across a firm.
- Invention evaluations
prevent five-figure filing mistakes and shape patent portfolios that span decades.
- EoU claim charts
decide royalty disputes and anchor infringement analysis.
- Patent landscapes
drive R&D investment decisions worth tens of millions.
These deliverables haven't lost value. The bar to produce them has risen. That requires both layers — domain depth and agentic AI. Most firms have one. Dolcera has both.
Claim 02 — The architecture
Four layers. One delivery model.
Domain depth directs the work. The agentic engine executes. Pods carry the matter. Outcomes ship.
Layer 01
Layer 01
Domain depth
The directing intelligence.
Twenty years of patent prosecution, search, litigation support, and IP analytics — built into deep domain teams and an internal library of methodologies, taxonomies, and analytical playbooks. Refined matter by matter, drawn from public patent literature and public case history.
- Prosecution
- Search
- Litigation
- Analytics
- Subject Matter Experts
Layer 02
Layer 02
The agentic engine
The execution.
Lexa is Dolcera's proprietary agentic AI. Standard AI retrieves information. Lexa reasons through workflows as a sequence of decisions — searching, analyzing, mapping claims, surfacing evidence, and deciding what to investigate next.
lexa.dolcera.com / matter / 4318-eou-charts
Reasoning trace
01
search
Decomposed claim 1 into 4 limitations. Searched USPTO + EPO + JPO + WIPO for limitation [1.3.2] on encoding pipeline.
02
evidence
Mapped 7 candidate references. Filtered to 3 that disclose all limitations of the independent claim.
03
decide
Surfacing the strongest mapping for expert review. Two alternative framings prepared if disagreed.
04
draft
Drafting EoU table — 32 product claims to map.
Agree
Elaborate
Disagree
Single-matter mode
A focused agent in dialogue with a domain expert — produces one finished, defensible deliverable. SEP and EoU charts, invention evaluations, Non-Infringement Analysis.
Bulk mode
Orchestrated loops across thousands of patents — produces a triaged subset for expert attention or a synthesized landscape. Portfolio screening, M&A diligence, landscapes.
Layer 03
Layer 03
Pod-based delivery
The unit of work.
A pod is the smallest unit of work in an AI-native service. Default composition: one domain expert and Lexa, working on one matter, in continuous dialogue with three modes:
Agree
Expert accepts the reasoning. Work moves forward.
Elaborate
Expert asks for more depth or stronger justification.
Disagree
Expert re-directs Lexa to a different angle, evidence, or framing.
Across pods, Lexa's shared workspaces let a senior and junior analyst work the same matter with senior reasoning visible in real time — knowledge transfer happens during the work.
Triage architecture (bulk mode)
Definite negativesfiltered without expert time
Definite positivesquick expert confirmation
Ambiguous middlefull expert attention
Layer 04
Layer 04
Decision-ready outcomes
What the buyer receives.
Dolcera ships the finished work product. Not the software. The buyer receives decision-ready outcomes they can use directly.
- SEP
- EoU
- Non-Infringement Analysis
- Claim charts
- Patent landscapes
- Portfolio analysis
Service catalog
Seven productized AI-native services.
Each one ships as finished work product. Buyers use it directly — counsel files the recommendation, licensing teams open the chart, R&D leadership acts on the landscape.
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Prior art search
References and report. Buyer's counsel makes the judgment call.
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SEP claim charts
Standards-essential charting against 3GPP, multimedia codecs, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Anchors licensing negotiations.
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EoU claim charts
Patent-to-product mapping for assertion and litigation.
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Non-Infringement Analysis
Non-Infringement Analysis (NIA) evaluates the assertor's chart for technical gaps, stretches, and over-reads against products in light of the file wrapper. Invalidation searches prove lack of novelty.
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Portfolio mining & assessment
Triage-based screening across full portfolios. Offensive mining surfaces hidden gems for licensing or assertion. M&A diligence assesses third-party portfolios for acquisition decisions.
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Patent landscapes
Market intelligence from the global patent corpus. Run guided (testing a hypothesis) or unguided (surfacing patterns and trends).
Trusted on the matters that matter
In-house IP teams and R&D leadership at the world's largest software, search, networking, and consumer-goods firms.
World's largest search firm
World's largest software firm
World's largest networking firm
Leading telecom licensing players
World leader in sleep & respiratory devices
Europe's largest software firm
World's largest beverages & snacks firm
Global leader in oral & personal care
Global leader in glass & building materials
World's largest eyewear firm
World's largest search firm
World's largest software firm
World's largest networking firm
Leading telecom licensing players
World leader in sleep & respiratory devices
Europe's largest software firm
World's largest beverages & snacks firm
Global leader in oral & personal care
Global leader in glass & building materials
World's largest eyewear firm
Claim 03 — The proof
IP analysis is empirical. Outcome is the test.
There is no laboratory benchmark. The honest test is what holds up against human-only vendors and AI-only tooling on the matters that go to the wire.
Litigation & assertion
- 7–9 daysvs. 1.5-month human-only baseline
EoU charts delivered for the world's largest software firm at velocity, on comparable scope.
Where other vendors failed.
EoU charts produced for the world's largest networking firm in a royalty dispute against a major audio and video standards licensor — in 2–3 weeks, after multiple other vendors failed to deliver usable work.
Highly usable in litigation.
EoUs rated highly usable in a complex enterprise software litigation between Europe's largest software firm and a leading data analytics firm — relied on directly by counsel, no second pass.
Go-to vendor on NIA.
Trusted vendor for Non-Infringement Assessment at the world's largest search firm and AI leader. Repeat selection on the hardest matters.
Pre-filing, licensing, portfolio & CI
Invention evaluation.
File-or-don't-file recommendations and invention-tweaking guidance for leading telecom licensing players and the world's largest search firm and AI leader.
SEP licensing.
Standards-essential charting against 3GPP, multimedia codecs, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi for leading telecom licensing players. Anchors licensing negotiations valued at half a million dollars per firm and higher.
Offensive portfolio mining.
Hidden-gem discovery in major portfolios at the world's largest search firm and AI leader and the world's largest software firm. Unlocked cross-litigation wins and licensing value.
Acquisition diligence.
Third-party portfolio assessment and infringement risk evaluation feeding M&A decisions at the world leader in sleep and respiratory medical devices.
Patent landscapes for global brands.
Shaping R&D investment and innovation strategy at the world's largest beverages and snacks firm, a global leader in oral care and personal care, a global leader in glass and building materials, and the world's largest eyewear firm.
— Leadership
Senior people, on every matter.
You won't be handed off to junior associates. The people on this page are the people on your file.
NagaManoj (Kumar) Aguduri
Solution Consultant
US·United States
Padmavati Ravichandran
Solution Consultant
US·United States
Zheng Lei (Stanley)
Solution Consultant
CN·Shenzhen
Backed by a 200+ person team across three countries.
The team stack
Top-tier institutions. Decades in the work.
Domain experts — not generalist analysts — across the technical fields where IP work is decisive. The people who scope the engagement are the people who direct Lexa during the work.
- PhDs
- M.Techs
- Top-tier institutions
- 200+ team
- Across three countries
Technology
- Semiconductor
- Software
- Telecom
- Multimedia
- Cloud
- AI/ML
- Gadgets
Food Science
- Food Processing
- Food Biotechnology
- Food Chemistry
- Functional Ingredients
- Nutrition Science
CPG
- Packaging
- Personal Care
- Beauty & Cosmetics
MedTech
- Medical Devices
- Biomedical Engineering
Engineering & Chemistry
- Materials Science
- Manufacturing Technologies
- Applied Chemistry
Technology
- Semiconductor
- Software
- Telecom
- Multimedia
- Cloud
- AI/ML
- Gadgets
Food Science
- Food Processing
- Food Biotechnology
- Food Chemistry
- Functional Ingredients
- Nutrition Science
CPG
- Packaging
- Personal Care
- Beauty & Cosmetics
MedTech
- Medical Devices
- Biomedical Engineering
Engineering & Chemistry
- Materials Science
- Manufacturing Technologies
- Applied Chemistry
The confidentiality boundary
Every engagement is walled.
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No client data trains any model.
Period. Not now, not ever.
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Lexa uses models trained on public datasets,
paired with our internal methodology layer.
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Tuning runs against public benchmarks and public patent data
— not client matters.
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Strict confidentiality clauses on every project.
Data from one engagement does not flow to another.
Global reach
Intelligence across every jurisdiction.
Dolcera files and analyzes work across the major patent offices. Six highlighted countries represent active engagement; the rest are reference points where our analyses regularly land.
Dolcera office — SFO · DUS · HYD · SZX
Active engagement — USPTO · INPI · PRH · EPO · IPIN · CNIPA
Reference jurisdiction
— Let's start a conversation
Tell us the question. We'll scope the work.
A 15-minute call clarifies the question, the decision behind it, and the timeline. We respond within one business day with a recommended starting point.