Announcing Opportunities for Patent Litigation Business Development

Every patent litigation team runs some version of the same business development playbook. Scan new filings. Assess relevance. Research the parties. Build and send a pitch. Repeat.

Every step of this process is manual, most of it is repetitive, and none of it is billable.

A single attorney can spend 30 or more minutes each day scanning filings and deciding which ones deserve a closer look. When a filing does look promising, preparing the technical analysis and pitch materials takes upward of 10 hours. Scale that across a practice group running this cycle hundreds of times per year, and the cost is thousands of attorney hours — time that's tedious, repetitive, and doesn't generate revenue.

And that's only counting the cases teams actually find. The bigger cost may be the opportunities that slip through entirely because nobody had bandwidth to look.

Why Traditional Docket Monitoring Fails Patent Litigation Business Development

Most patent litigation teams rely on some combination of docket monitoring services and periodic alert emails. These tools notify you that a filing happened. They don't tell you whether it matters to your team.

The gap between "new filing" and "relevant opportunity" is the challenge. An attorney still has to read the complaint, assess the technology, evaluate the parties, check for conflicts, consider venue, and decide whether the case justifies a pitch. 

The result is a process that's simultaneously too slow and too expensive. Relevant cases surface weeks after filing. Strong opportunities get missed. 

How &AI Opportunities Works

Opportunities is a real-time, personalized patent litigation feed built into the &AI platform. Rather than dumping every new filing into a generic alert, it evaluates each case against the specific attorneys on your team and surfaces only the opportunities that matter.

Personalized match scoring. Every filing is scored against each attorney's experience, practice areas, technical background, and case history. The system evaluates six dimensions: technical fit, defense posture, forum and venue, case complexity, client fit, and history fit. The result is a relevance score that reflects how well a specific case maps to a specific attorney, not just a keyword match.

Real-time delivery. Filings can appear in your feed within minutes of entering PACER. Teams can configure whitelists and blacklists for specific parties and exclude case types that aren't relevant to their practice, such as Schedule A, Hatch-Waxman, or Declaratory Judgment matters. When a case crosses your match threshold or names a party you're tracking, &AI notifies you immediately.

LinkedIn connection intelligence. For each opportunity, the platform identifies LinkedIn connections between your team members and in-house counsel at the defendant. A warm introduction path can mean the difference between a pitch that lands and one that goes unread.

Patent and party analytics. Every opportunity comes enriched with litigation intelligence. For asserted patents, you can view litigation history across venues and prior outcomes. For parties, the system surfaces behavioral patterns including settlement rates, typical case durations, and litigation posture, so your team can assess case strength and predict how a matter is likely to unfold.

Enriched case overviews. Each filing includes a detailed summary covering the complaint, party information, asserted patents, and accused instrumentalities, all with linked sources. No more toggling between services to piece together the picture.

Patent Litigation Business Development, End to End

Opportunities doesn't stop at identifying relevant cases. It connects directly to the complaint-to-pitch workflow that teams already use on &AI.

Once a strong match surfaces, attorneys can move from filing to a completed pitch deck, memo, or letter in hours. The same platform already handles prior art search, claim chart drafting, and invalidity contentions. The entire arc from case discovery to outbound materials lives in one place.

For firms that measure BD efficiency, the difference is significant. Cases that previously took weeks to identify and pitch now move through the pipeline in a fraction of the time. And the cases that would have been missed entirely? They show up automatically.

Built for Defense-Side Patent Litigation Teams

Opportunities is designed specifically for defense-side teams evaluating incoming patent litigation. The scoring model, the party intelligence, and the pitch workflow all reflect how defense-side practitioners actually think about new matters: assessing exposure, evaluating the plaintiff's litigation history, and determining whether the case warrants proactive outreach.

This specificity matters. A general-purpose docket alert can tell you that a patent case was filed. It takes a system built for patent litigation to tell you whether that case is worth your team's time.

Available Now

Opportunities exits closed beta and is available to all &AI customers. The product is built into the existing &AI platform alongside prior art search, claim chart drafting, invalidity contentions, and the complaint-to-pitch workflow.

Opportunities is a $175 per month add-on to a Core or Pro seat. Firms and teams interested in setting up Opportunities can book a demo to get started.