Intellectual property law firm ZeusIP Advocates LLP, in association with Native AI, has launched Real-time Intelligence Agent (RIA), an AI-powered platform aimed at automating and streamlining research-intensive and repetitive work across trademark, patent and IP litigation workflows.
RIA is designed to support general counsel, corporate legal teams, IP professionals and law firms by assisting with information gathering, research, evidence review and analysis, while retaining lawyer-led review and decision-making.
According to ZeusIP, the platform has been developed within its own IP practice and draws on more than two decades of institutional knowledge and a repository of close to eight million documents. Its full-search functionality allows legal teams to search across the repository and identify relevant information, while email-response capabilities have also been rolled out.
In an interaction with ETLegalWorld, Gunjan Paharia, managing partner, ZeusIP Advocates LLP, said the platform is intended to reduce the amount of time lawyers spend on data collection and allow them to focus on analysis and risk assessment.
“RIA can collate the search results, identify similar marks, also do the full data analysis across 20+ parameters and bring all of this data together for the lawyer to do the risk assessment based on the data,” Paharia said.
She said that previously lawyers would undertake the data collection before reaching the analysis stage. “Today, that is all they would need to think about. RIA does not only collect the data but also reads it with a context so it can assist the lawyer in their final assessment,” she added.
Positioning against existing legal AI tools
The launch comes as legal technology platforms increasingly use AI for legal research, document review, summarisation and drafting, while specialist IP technology providers offer tools for patent and trademark searches and intelligence.
Paharia acknowledged that RIA currently performs many functions already available in the legal-tech market, including gathering intelligence, reviewing documents and summarising material. However, she said its intended differentiation lies in how it processes and reasons over that information before presenting an output to a lawyer.
“RIA currently does what the existing legal tech in the market can do which is gathering intelligence, reviewing documents, providing summary of the documents but RIA does more than all of that, it behaves like at least a third-year associate,” Paharia said.
According to her, the platform can analyse and reason through information before producing a first draft of advice for a lawyer to review.
Another distinction, she said, comes from RIA’s use of Small Language Models (SLMs), which ZeusIP says allows it to keep client data within its controlled ecosystem while also adapting the system to the firm’s own workflows, tone and feedback processes.
“As it is SLM based, it maintains the confidentiality of the client data, uses the ZeusIP tone and tonality and also stays within the ZeusIP feedback loop and ecosystem,” Paharia said.
Early testing indicates time savings
ZeusIP said early testing of the platform has shown significant reductions in the time lawyers spend on several IP functions.
Paharia said a comprehensive trademark search that could previously take up to a full day of a lawyer’s time can now be prepared in less than 30 minutes, subject to the Trade Marks Office website being operational.
The resulting work still requires between one and two hours of lawyer time for fact-checking, validation and risk assessment, according to the firm.
“The time saving is within a range of 2x to 4.6x across various functions like drafting evidence to search for chances of success,” Paharia said.
The firm described these figures as early testing data rather than a broader independent assessment of RIA’s impact.
The first module of RIA has been rolled out across trademarks, patents and litigation, with ZeusIP planning to introduce additional modules and fine-tuned models over the coming weeks and months.
Paharia said the launch is the first step in a broader technology-led model for the firm, with the aim of giving lawyers greater capacity for judgment, strategy, advocacy and client advice.
