IPRights4All(TM) Solution - Platform as a Software Service
- United States
- For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
T-I-L® is contributing to capturing $1 trillion in additional yearly US gross domestic product growth by disrupting structural barriers to intellectual property (IP) rights creation and ownership, for entrepreneurs from marginalized and underrepresented communities. International Monetary Fund and World Bank data show comparable opportunities globally. There are ample constitutional legislative, and treaty agreements that are building blocks as evidenced by the image shown below*. Our work confirms those projections based on work with clients in Africa, Asia and the US. We are helping clients to create and monetize innovation, in the form of intangible assets, today as a digital service. Additionally, we have built minimum viable product components and are seeking resources to scale the solution and to make it a digital product that connects with global financial ecosystems.
Our solution is making it easier and less costly to protect and to monetize their innovation. The goal is to support 2.7 million entrepreneurs in creating $5.4 billion of their own financial value. The work supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, indicating global opportunity. Results show that the business is energizing creativity, addressing global challenges, and can deliver a financial return too.
For Phase I, as of 2023 we estimate the IPRights4All(TM) Solution
had helped 109 underrepresented creatives and entrepreneurs to create
$43 million (US) of their own financial value. With MIT Solve support
we believe we can scale the results as a global social enterprise. Some
literature indicates that this solution may benefit 30% or more of the
global population when all phases are deployed. In Phase I we are
focusing on demographic "Generation Z" for the digital product launch.
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IPRights4All™ Solution is a “one stop” IP solution for creatives and
entrepreneurs from under-served communities. It is designed to be used
by either T-I-L® clients and/or staff, to register and protect IP. Also,
it is designed to be used by other legal services providers to serve
the audience of entrepreneurs from under-resourced communities. Current
features are: Product - digital service enabling clients to
research/acquire/protect/monetize intellectual property, software
product MVP launching 2024; Price – target 50% of market comparable; Revenue Model - monthly subscription, fixed fee, service, and monetization
success fee payments; Promotion(s) – “Pay What You Can” for
customer accessibility; Distribution – virtual/online; Positioning –
differentiated by combination of affordable price, value adding
features, and relationship for monetization. Our competitive advantages are "value", delivered by financially beneficial capabilities at a price less than market, and the proprietary client centric design of our ecosystem. It establishes a partnership that is making it easier and less costly to create, use, protect IP, and monetize client innovation in authenticated trade across the globe.
A demo of the minimum viable product of the IPRights4All (TM) Solution Platform as a Service offering is @
Aspirations and economic opportunities are the documented benefits of the IPRights4All(TM) Solution. Often those benefits occur on a spectrum, starting with Awareness, followed by Access, Affordability and the Availability of a potential return on investment in the creative/entrepreneur terms. These findings are based on research. We call them the "Four As" of the journey. That journey is represented by the chart (below) showing actual clients that have given permission to share their images and stories.

In general the audience demographics are diverse, and story driven. Offerings are available to all. Resources are invested in reaching marginalized and
underrepresented entrepreneurs. Select client demographics are: 95%
people of color, 60% women, 50% small business or startup, 25% social
impact, 25% creative, age range 7 - 67, income public housing to
middle-class, residing 61% (US), 35% (Asia), 4% (Africa). Simply put, the benefits include the creation of marketable intangible assets that may be traded for financial inclusion and generational wealth building. In Phase I of
the IPRights4All(TM) Digital Product launch we are focusing on
demographic "Generation Z" where it makes sense.
T-I-L(R) is positioned to capture this opportunity, and to solve the
problem, because we are engaged in the communities served directly,
through partners, and via our own personally diverse life experiences.
About 90% of our team are from historically marginalized and
underrepresented communities. The countries of origin include Korea,
Nigeria, US and Vietnam. Further, we have complemented the life
experience foundation with primary research, leveraging "client centric"
and "wrap around service" models from participation in research
programs with: National Science Foundation/George Washington University
and Georgetown University. Finally we work through partners that are
active in the communities (i.e., people of color, public housing
residents, women, etc.) we serve and have the benefit of working
directly with over 100 clients. T-I-L(R) is well positioned because we
are actually executing in a documented and impactful way. We can be
better. Working with MIT Solve is a potential co-creation that can
appreciate the value of the work.
A recent presentation, at Santa Clara University's Silicon Valley Executive Center, for the African Diaspora Network's ABLE (Accelerating Black Leadership and Entrepreneurship) may be informative on this question @
- Generate new economic opportunities and buffer against economic shocks for workers, including good job creation, workforce development, and inclusive and attainable asset ownership.
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
- 17. Partnerships for the Goals
- Pilot
IPRights4All(TM) was launched by the social impact law firm as an intellectual property rights digital service and has served 100+ clients. The work is: 1. informed by experience and prior inquiry, as evidenced by the presentation given to the Georgetown University Alumni Association previously (below) and based on research findings from the I-Corp Program, funded by the National Science Foundation and administered by George Washington University; 2. Informed by Client Centric Design learning from Georgetown University; and multiple rounds of customer-market validation conducted with the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center "Milestone Maker" and Capital One Bank. Through the journey a portfolio of experience, intellectual property and knowledge was developed. The portfolio includes Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Trade Secret assets. Those assets, and others, were combined with funding from the Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund (IIEIF) to "spin-out" and create the social impact IP legal tech startup T-I-L-Group, Benefit Corporation on January 11, 2024. T-I-L-Group is developing software to enhance the scalability of the IPRights4All(TM) Solution as an IPR Platform as a Service, available to individual clients and to allies/organizations that seek to use the software as a potentially profitable way to serve a historically under-served market.
To date T-I-L-Group has:
- Conducted "Alpha" software testing
- Achieved agreements with Beta Test Clients /Allies (ranging in # from 19 - 200*+) *the "19" includes two large organizations with access to several hundred additional testers
- Planned and started execution of "go to market" activities, featuring clients and allies (those that have given permission)
- Achieved acceptance, through competitive process, into the University of Maryland Blockchain Accelerator which began April 16
* Georgetown University Alumni Association Presentation @
The T-I-L(R) social impact business model is based on the concept of "a rising tide lifts all boats". Our perpetual search is for resources, community and allies in executing our mission. We are capital efficient and open to co-creating and collaborating. Our approach is intentional about connecting and expanding our ecosystem, so that we may provide to our clients and allies "the right resource, at the right price, at the right time". MIT Solve presents a potential ally that brings unique capabilities that advance the win-win-win approach to our work. That uniqueness is why we are investing the time to co-create a better world through intellectual property rights, in concert with MIT Solve.
- Financial (e.g. accounting practices, pitching to investors)
- Human Capital (e.g. sourcing talent, board development)
- Legal or Regulatory Matters
- Monitoring & Evaluation (e.g. collecting/using data, measuring impact)
- Product / Service Distribution (e.g. delivery, logistics, expanding client base)
- Public Relations (e.g. branding/marketing strategy, social and global media)

Founder / Attorney

Cofounder
Foreign counsel

Senior Social Impact IP Law Leader