How We Work

Build an IP portfolio that protects your value proposition. Our process shows you how.

Scale Your Business and Limit Risk

Disrupting a deep-tech industry opens your business to risk. Competitors can copy your product and kill your business before you can scale. Protecting your idea is key. That’s where Stake comes in. We work with your team to build a 5-year IP Playbook, outlining the patents, trademarks, and copyrights you need to protect your ideas — all so you can scale your business and limit risk.

IP Playbook

We’ll work with your team to create a 5-year playbook, complete with timelines and costs.

Implementation

Our team implements the patents, trademarks, and copyrights laid out in your playbook.

Management

We manage, review, and provide recommendations for scaling your IP portfolio.

About Stake

Stake is a full-service intellectual property law firm helping deep tech startups build tailored IP portfolios using our global experience and our boutique attitude. We are a global practice with clients across North America and cases in 60+ countries. Our work includes:

Protection

Transactions

Litigation

We’re an IP boutique, which means we don’t take every case. We’re focused on providing high-quality intellectual property legal services. We leverage technology, we innovate, and we think outside the box. We don’t constrain ourselves to “what a law firm should look like.”

Our Founder

Joshua Mertzlufft started with a B.S. in Applied Physics and a job as a mechanical engineer. Now, he’s a U.S. patent attorney and has quarterbacked patent applications all over the world.

Josh left big law to start a law firm for his dream clients: deep tech startups.

Josh is good. Real good. He's as smart and hard working as they come, and his love for his job shines through with the HOURS of research and follow up he does. His engineering background makes him extra effective at his work and quick to understand difficult constructs. Great customer service, quick responses, and dedication to his work are greatly appreciated. I highly recommend.

Josh is NOT your typical patent attorney that just goes through the motions to file some paperwork only to then charge you a big $$$ amount. He genuinely cares about your vision, goals, business plan, etc... He prides himself on putting together a complete game plan to achieve your goals. I've been an entrepreneur for over 15 years and I know how important it is to build a strong team of professionals around you. You're going to want Josh "the owner of [Mertzlufft] Law" on your team. In the crazy world of patents and patent law you need the best. I promise you Josh is the BEST out there.

I found working with Josh, as a new business owner very informative and helpful. Josh was easy to work with and understand legal verbiage. I absolutely will work with him again. Thank You Josh and STAKE

Honest, quick, knowledgeable, and reliable!

Stake law is the place to go for anything related to patents. They are reliable, timely, fairly priced, and have excellent quality and customer service.