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Ian Schick, PhD, Esq

Founder, patent attorney & builder at the intersection of AI and intellectual property. Co-founder of Paximal, an AI-powered drafting platform transforming how law firms and corporate IP teams prepare patents. Now launching Idea Clerk, a startup-friendly platform that helps founders protect their ideas with fast, affordable provisional patents.

Passionate about making IP protection accessible, scalable, and aligned with how founders actually build. Always up for connecting with other makers, sharing lessons from the startup trenches, and swapping notes on AI, IP, and product development.

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Should Your Startup File Patents Globally? A Founder’s Guide to Foreign Filing Strategy
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