Services
Cascade Patents LLC is a solo patent agent practice focused on U.S. patent preparation and prosecution, patentability assessment, and patent scope analysis. The practice is built for inventors, startups, and technology companies that want careful written work, practical advice, and direct communication.
The emphasis is on inventions in software, electronics, AI, chemistry, biotech, and adjacent technical fields.
Patent preparation and prosecution
This is the core of the practice.
Patent preparation and prosecution includes the work required to turn an invention into a U.S. patent application and move that application through examination before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Typical work includes:
- inventor and team interviews;
- review of disclosures, slides, white papers, product materials, prototypes, and research notes;
- claim strategy and application structure;
- drafting of the specification and claims;
- coordination of formal drawings when needed;
- filing strategy for provisional and non-provisional applications;
- responses to Office Actions and examiner rejections;
- continuation strategy and portfolio development over time.
The objective is not only to file an application, but to prepare one with enough technical depth and claim discipline to support meaningful prosecution later.
Patentability assessment
Not every invention should be patented. Before filing, it is often useful to step back and examine the landscape.
A patentability assessment helps answer questions such as:
- Does the invention appear meaningfully different from what is already public?
- Which features are most likely to matter for patentability?
- Is the invention mature enough to justify filing now?
- Would a staged strategy make more sense?
- How should the invention be described so that the strongest points are not lost?
This work is useful for founders deciding where to spend early legal budget, research teams deciding what to disclose, and companies that need a disciplined way to prioritize filings.
Patent scope analysis
A patent is valuable only to the extent that its boundaries are understood.
Patent scope analysis is focused on what a patent claim likely covers, where its edges may be, and how it relates to a product, design path, or technical feature set. This kind of work can be helpful when:
- evaluating a patent or application before a product launch;
- reviewing a competitor patent at a high level;
- deciding whether to file around an existing disclosure;
- assessing whether a claim set appears broad, narrow, or commercially useful;
- comparing a draft application to business goals.
The goal is practical clarity. A scope review should help decision-making, not produce abstract commentary detached from the underlying product.
Technology focus
The practice is especially interested in matters involving:
- startups and emerging technology companies;
- software and computer-implemented inventions;
- electronics, devices, and integrated systems;
- artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven platforms;
- chemistry, materials, and process innovations;
- biotech and life science technologies.
How matters are handled
Most engagements begin with an initial discussion of the invention, the business context, and the filing timeline. From there, the work may move in stages:
- review of the invention and available materials;
- assessment of filing goals, deadlines, and public-disclosure issues;
- decision on whether to proceed with analysis, drafting, or a staged plan;
- preparation and filing of the application;
- prosecution as the application moves through examination.
Throughout the matter, the focus remains the same: identify what is really inventive, describe it clearly, and pursue claim scope that is worth having.
Scope of representation
Greg Wroblewski is a registered patent agent before the USPTO (Registration No. 84,539). The practice is limited to patent matters before the USPTO and related technical patent work. Representation does not begin unless and until a written engagement is accepted.