From Patent Law to Fighting a $3 Trillion Counterfeit Empire with AI

We wanted to look for the most boring, manual, and tedious space there was. I had taken this class in patent law back when I was at Penn. The process of filing a patent, of going through, making sure that there was no prior art. You know, you pay a patent firm essentially tens and tens of thousands of dollars to make sure that your patents are clear, there's no prior art out there. And really it's just a bunch of paralegals in the back doing keyword searches. And we were like, this is crazy. It is something that's so, so painful and so tedious. You know, that led us deeper into just exploring intellectual property. As you know, we saw that the volume there was much, much higher. And so that's kind of the problem that we really latched onto.