If You Can Imagine It,
Arcangel Can Protect It.

Drafting your filing preview...
Analyzing

Placeholder title for your filing

How original it looks--
Similar ideas
Searching patent and trademark records for possible conflicts.
Right protection
Working out how your idea should be protected.
Draft preview
Generating the opening language of your filing.
Next step
Choosing the right application, price, and timeline.

The best idea should win.Not the biggest legal budget.

Arcangel exists for the founder, student, researcher, and independent inventor who has something worth protecting but no legal department behind them. We turn plain-language descriptions into serious IP protection, with AI doing the heavy lifting and licensed attorneys reviewing where it matters.

Why we built it →
Minutesto describe what you are building and begin the right filing path
Flat feesvisible before you start, without hourly billing or surprise invoices
Long-term supportfrom the first search through renewals and government replies

Classificationand routing

No legal vocabulary required. Halo reads what you wrote, decides whether it is a patent or a trademark question, and asks only what that filing actually needs.

See how filings are built →
  1. 01
    Describe it naturally

    Explain the product, software, process, name, or logo the way you would explain it to a collaborator.

  2. 02
    Halo chooses the protection path

    Arcangel identifies whether you need a patent or a trademark, then asks only the relevant questions.

  3. 03
    Search before you spend

    We compare your work with patent records, trademark records, and domains to find possible conflicts early.

  4. 04
    Draft, review, and file

    Arcangel assembles the application, creates supporting materials, and routes eligible filings to licensed attorneys.

  5. 05
    Stay protected

    Track deadlines, government replies, renewals, and everything you protect from one place.

Capabilities
  • Auto-classification
  • Claim scaffolding
  • Product and service categories
  • Proof-of-use checks
  • Drawing preparation
  • Deadline tracking

Searchbefore you spend

Every application starts with a search of what already exists. You see similar inventions and conflicting brand names before you pay to file, so you can improve your idea, make it stand apart, or walk away early.

Run a clearance risk search →

Protection for what you makeand what people call it.

Patents cover how something works. Trademarks cover the name and mark people recognise it by. Arcangel runs both from the same description, in the same workspace.

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Patents

Own the idea.

Protect a new product, machine, software method, process, or visual design before the market catches up.

  • Starter and full patent applications
  • Software and design patents
  • Similar-idea searches and technical drawings
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Own the name.

Protect the words, logos, and brand signals customers use to find and remember your work.

  • Names and logos
  • Conflict searches across major records
  • Categories, proof of use, and renewals
  • Infringement monitoring, cease and desist, and DMCA takedowns
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IP Exchange · Coming soon

No budget should meanno protection.

Arcangel is building a future path for inventors who have historically lacked legal access, capital, or commercial connections to protect promising ideas and bring them into the world.

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Attorney reviewand the twenty years after

An application is only the beginning. Eligible applications are checked by a licensed lawyer before submission. After that, government replies, proof-of-use deadlines, and renewals stay on one timeline.

See the full lifecycle →

Flat fees,published in advance

You pick the level of help before any work begins. Self-file if you are confident, or add licensed attorney review. Government fees are shown separately, never marked up.

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FilingSelf-fileAttorney reviewed
Starter patent applicationHolds your place in line for 12 months$150$400Full patent applicationThe application the Patent Office reviews, plus government fees$1,000$5,000TrademarkConflict search, categories, and proof-of-use preparation$99$450IP ExchangeA future path for underserved inventorsComing soon-
Built for real starting points

“I had the prototype and the research. What I did not have was $10,000 and six months to find out whether it could be protected.”

Maya ChenIndependent hardware founder · early Arcangel user
What changed
One afternoonHer description became a structured first patent application.
A known priceShe chose the review level before work began.
Her place in line securedShe kept building and talking to investors with protection underway.
Your work deserves a fair start

Describe it once. Arcangel will show you how to protect it.

Or read the detailed patent, trademark, pricing, and upcoming IP Exchange vision first.

Start with your ideaGet started →
Your dashboard

Every filing, one command center.

Patents and trademarks side by side: statuses, deadlines, government replies, and attorney reviews in a single view.

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Protection should belong to everyone who creates.

For too long, patents and trademarks have been easiest to reach for people with large legal budgets. Arcangel gives independent inventors and first-time founders a clear, affordable way to own what they build.

See how it works
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From first sketch to something you can own.

One place for the ideas and names that are yours.

Patents

Turn an invention into something only you can own.

Describe your idea in everyday language. Arcangel searches for similar inventions, prepares the application and drawings, and can have a lawyer review everything before filing.

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Trademarks

Give your name, logo, and reputation a place to grow.

We search for conflicts, choose the right business categories, prepare your proof of use, and guide your brand through filing, registration, and renewal. After that, we monitor infringement, send cease and desist letters, and file DMCA takedowns.

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You bring the idea you believe in.
We make protection understandable.

  1. 01

    Tell us what you made

    Start with a sentence, sketch, photo, or rough description. You do not need legal language or a finished prototype.

  2. 02

    See the right path

    Arcangel identifies whether a patent or trademark fits, searches for conflicts, and shows the price.

  3. 03

    File with confidence

    Choose self-service or lawyer review. Your application is prepared and filed within two weeks.

Arcangel Media

Good ideas do not only come from big companies.

Composite stories based on common founder starting points. Click any card to read the full story.

A founder packing a skincare product into kraft packaging
“I had customers asking for the product before I had any idea how to protect the name. Arcangel made the path feel possible.”
Amara LewisIndependent beauty founderRead the story ↻
Arcangel Publications

From kitchen counter to registered brand

Amara's serums sold out at two farmers markets before the brand had a name she could keep. A knockoff listing appeared within a month, using her product photos.

Through Arcangel she ran a clearance scan across TESS, domains, and socials in an afternoon, filed a word mark with attorney review for $450, and locked the matching domain the same week.

Registration came through in under a year. The knockoff listing came down with one takedown letter that cited it.

4 min read · Composite story · 2026Back ↺
A maker working on a prototype at a drill press in a workshop
“The prototype worked. The legal process was the part that stopped me. For the first time, I could see every step and its cost.”
Jon BellProduct designer and first-time inventorRead the story ↻
Arcangel Publications

The prototype was the easy part

Jon had a working mount for accessibility tools and three quotes from firms that started at five figures, before drawings.

He described the mechanism to Arcangel in plain language. Halo drafted the claims and generated the schematics, an attorney tightened both, and his provisional was filed for $400 with every government fee itemized up front.

Twelve months of patent-pending bought him time to license the design instead of racing to manufacture it.

3 min read · Composite story · 2026Back ↺
We believe

Innovation is everywhere. Access to ownership should be too.

We are building for the person with a working prototype, a growing side business, or an idea that deserves more than a notebook.

More from Arcangel ↻
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More from Arcangel Media

Ownership for everyoneWhy we cap flat fees · 2026The $150 provisionalWhat it covers, honestly · 2026Grants, not gatekeepingInside the 70/100 program · 2026When to trademark firstA founder's ordering guide · 2026
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A real person checks the work when you choose lawyer review.
Support that stays

Filing is the beginning, not the handoff.

Arcangel keeps every deadline, Patent Office reply, renewal, and protected asset together. When legal review is included, a licensed lawyer checks the application before it goes out.

  • Your work stays yoursArcangel helps you protect ownership; it does not take it.
  • The price is clear firstService costs and government fees are shown separately.
  • Every next step is visibleFollow progress and deadlines from one place.
  • Help when it mattersChoose lawyer review without entering a traditional law-firm maze.
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Patent licensing

Monetize what you protect.

Licensing means you keep the patent and give someone else the right to make or sell what it covers. They pay for that right. The deal is built on the claims: what the patent protects is what a company is paying to use.

90%

Of every royalty stays with you. The licensing fee is $10,000, one time. Income depends on whether licensed products sell.

Option 1 · Sell it

Arcangel International IP Exchange

Sell your patent outright.

Prefer one payment over royalties? List your patent for sale and let companies and investors around the world make offers.

  • Set your own asking price, or take offers
  • Reach buyers in other countries, not just the US
  • One payment, and ownership transfers to the buyer
  • Coming soon: the IP Exchange opens to Arcangel members

You set the asking price and decide which offers to accept. Arcangel lists the patent and handles the transfer of ownership when a sale closes. A sale is final: the buyer owns the patent and any future royalties. Sale prices depend on the patent and on buyer demand, and a sale is not guaranteed.

Option 2 · License it

How Arcangel licensing pays you

One-time licensing fee
$10,000
Your share of every royalty
90%
You 90%10%

Your share

90%

of every royalty

Arcangel keeps 10%. Over 10 years of a 20-year patent, income depends on whether licensed products sell.

You pay a one-time $10,000 licensing fee. You keep 90% of every royalty payment and Arcangel keeps 10%. No number of deals or yearly amount is promised. Earnings depend on whether licensed products sell.

Option 3 · Franchise it

IP Exchange · Franchising

Franchise your brand.

Built a product people love? Register the brand behind it, then let operators open locations under your name and pay you to use it.

  • Set your franchise fee, royalty and territory model
  • List rights for future locations, city by city
  • Operators request a territory; you accept who you want
  • Franchisees can resell their location, with your approval

Franchising needs a registered trademark, since the mark is what franchisees pay to use. In the U.S. you also give buyers a Franchise Disclosure Document under the FTC Franchise Rule, usually prepared by a franchise lawyer. Example figures are for illustration; earnings depend on how each location performs.

  1. You keep the patentA license is permission to use the invention. Ownership stays with you unless you choose to sell it.
  2. Someone else can sell itStrong commercialization potential means another company can build or sell what the patent covers.
  3. The claims set the dealClear claim scope is what a licensee is paying for, and what the price is negotiated against.
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You bring the innovation, Arcangel protects it.

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