Fixed-price intellectual property services platform and IP analytics tool. Operates as both an IP services marketplace (ordering patent searches, drafting, and multi-jurisdiction filing from a network of 250-300+ external patent attorneys, engineers, and trademark specialists) and an analytics platform (portfolio trends, competitor benchmarking). Company registered as ‘Aalbul Ltd’ / ‘Arctic Alliance Ltd’, product brand is ‘Aalbun’. Founded in Cambridge, UK. Small core team (~6 employees) managing the platform; actual IP work done by contractor/affiliate network. COO Christian Bunke listed in IAM Strategy 300 (2023). Named clients: Cambridge Mask Co (Chinese patent), Share.P (software patent) — vendor-produced case studies, no quantified outcomes. G2: 4.2/5 (3 reviews). Primarily serves companies needing IP filing/search services, not law firms practicing IP law. Most useful for in-house IP teams, startups, and R&D departments without dedicated patent counsel. Competes with FoundationIP, PATTSY WAVE, AppColl, Patentcloud, IPRally. Included in QY Research patent services market report.
Company Info
- Founded: 2015
- Team size: 1-10 employees
- Funding: $336.3K
- HQ: United Kingdom
- Sector: IP
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What practitioners struggle with
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Trademark clearance search costs $1,500-3,000 through an attorney and takes weeks — startups and small businesses either skip it (risking a cease-and-desist) or use free tools that miss common law marks and state registrations
In-house IP team at a tech company files 200+ patent applications per year and each one takes a patent agent 40-60 hours to draft from the inventor disclosure — the bottleneck isn't the invention, it's the labour-intensive process of writing specifications, claims, and figures that meet USPTO requirements, while the patent agent's queue grows faster than they can work through it
Patent attorney conducting a prior art search for a client's invention spends 2-3 days manually searching USPTO, EPO, and non-patent literature databases — reading hundreds of abstracts, mapping claims to prior art references, and still worrying they missed something in a Chinese or Japanese patent that wasn't translated. The search costs the client $5,000-15,000 and the attorney still can't guarantee completeness
Corporate IP department needs to report to management on the full cost of maintaining its patent portfolio — filing fees, attorney fees, annuity payments, translation costs across 30+ jurisdictions — but the data lives in three different systems (docketing, billing, and the annuity service provider) and nobody can produce a single view of portfolio economics without weeks of manual reconciliation
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