moatly™ Strategic Protection
Protect your idea and understand what could stand in the way before you go to market.
Service Description
moatly™ Strategic Protection includes everything in moatly™ Essential Protection, plus the due diligence that founders cannot afford to skip if they intend to go to market, scale, or raise capital responsibly. In addition to early patent protection, this package includes a global patent landscape search and preliminary Freedom-to-Operate insight designed to surface existing patents, technologies, and businesses that could restrict your ability to sell, scale, license, or partner. These steps matter because even the strongest product — and the time, money, and sweat poured into building it — can be derailed if it unknowingly infringes on someone else’s rights. Founders cannot afford to keep building without knowing what already exists. The earlier due diligence is done, the more options remain. Skipping patent searches and Freedom-to-Operate insight while continuing to build means risking months or years of effort on a product that may need to be shut down, redesigned, or delayed at the worst possible moment — after launch, after funding, or after customers are onboarded. moatly™ Strategic Protection is for founders who want to move forward with peace of mind. The due diligence results are meant to be shared with your team, so product, engineering, and go-to-market strategies are built with awareness, not assumptions. Because what good is taking a product to market if you later discover you can't stay there? * IMPORTANT: moatly™ Strategic Protection is designed to secure early protection, as well as help founders understand risk and move forward with confidence. For funded teams or companies with complex, ongoing intellectual property needs, additional support may be appropriate. In those cases, moatly™’s sister company, VATT Intellectual Property Management, handles extended engagements, including IP portfolio development, additional patent and trademark filings, and long-term IP strategy. This ensures that as your company grows, your protection can grow with it.