Where it all started …
One of our team members is a patent attorney and an engineer. Like a typical attorney, he spent countless hours writing. That’s when he realized that he often reused or tried to reuse text from previously written documents.
Attempting to reuse text was often times very frustrating. Typically, it was time consuming (in a wasteful kind of way): (1) you find a document that you think may have what you need (you can use Windows search if you have infinite patience or Google desktop search, which is no longer supported); (2) you open the document and search it; (3) if you were lucky enough to find the right document, you could copy the text and paste it into your working document. In addition, (and more importantly) sometimes, finding useful text was all but impossible. You know that feeling — you’re certain that you’ve written something on the topic, and it was really good, but not matter how hard you search for it, you just can’t find it; then, you give up and just write anew. And to top it off, you’re left with the feeling that the text you didn’t find was somehow better.
After searching and finding nothing suitable, he tried to visualize what kind of software he would want. With some basic concepts in mind, our team started working on the solution.
The journey begins
After countless hours of research we started formulating a plan to make our vision a reality.