About FISHstep
FISHstep is designed to enable startup companies to protect their intellectual property early in their formation – often before the first round of seed funding – without diverting cash from the business. Select startups will be invited to join the FISHstep program, the benefits of which include the preparation and filing of a patent application with deferred billing until the company is funded, in exchange for 1% of the startup company’s equity. Since 1878, their firm has been at the forefront of evolutionary change in technology and patent law. They started as a Boston law firm with only a few attorneys on staff and now have a legal team of more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in 12 offices around the world.