Aug 18: ZeusIP Advocates LLP, an intellectual property law firm specialising in IP matters in India and abroad, in association with Native AI, a platform for building Small Language Models optimised for specific business use cases, today announced the launch of Real-time Intelligence Agent, an AI-powered Intellectual Property Platform designed to streamline trademark and patent workflows by automating repetitive and operational aspects of IP work.
Designed to support General Counsel, corporate legal teams, IP professionals and law firms, RIA uses AI to assist with information gathering, research and evidence review, enabling legal professionals to spend more time on legal analysis, strategy and client advice, while keeping human review and professional judgment at the centre.
The platform is built around a simple principle: AI should augment lawyers, not replace them. It functions as a lawyer-enablement tool, with AI-generated outputs subject to lawyer-led review, factchecking and validation. While RIA can process information and support research and evidence-related tasks, decisions on legal strategy, interpretation and advice remain with the lawyer. The first module has now been rolled out across trademarks, patents and litigation, with further modules and capabilities across these verticals scheduled to be rolled out in the coming weeks.
Gunjan Paharia, Managing Partner, ZeusIP Advocates LLP, said:
“The legal industry is at a point where the challenge is no longer simply about having access to information, but about being able to find, connect and use the right information when it matters. After more than two decades of building ZeusIP, I have seen how much valuable knowledge sits across files, evidence and individual experience, but is not always easy to retrieve when a lawyer needs it. That was one of the questions that led us to build this platform. We wanted to create a form of institutional memory that could help lawyers search, retrieve and work through information accumulated over years of practice, while still keeping the lawyer firmly in control of the outcome. I see AI as a powerful enabler, but not as a substitute for legal judgment. The real opportunity is to take away the repetitive work that consumes valuable legal time and give lawyers more capacity for the work where their expertise makes the greatest difference.”
Developed within ZeusIP’s own IP practice, RIA brings together the firm’s institutional knowledge and practical understanding of IP workflows with AI-enabled processes. That institutional knowledge spans more than two decades of practice and an archive of close to eight million documents, with full-search functionality now enabling legal teams to search across this repository and identify relevant information in minutes. RIA is designed to help legal teams work through large volumes of information, including research, client evidence and legacy information, making relevant material easier to identify, review and use. Email response capabilities have also been rolled out, with further fine-tuned models and capabilities planned for deployment over the coming weeks and months. By combining technology with ZeusIP’s experience in IP practice, RIA aims to improve the efficiency and consistency of legal workflows.
AI-assisted work intended for client advice or filings is subject to ZeusIP’s internal human-review protocol, known as the F.I.V.E. framework — Fact-check, Improve, Validate and Enterprise. The framework requires lawyers to fact-check and improve AI-assisted outputs, validate the information and sources, and apply their own expertise and strategic judgment in the context of the client’s objectives. The Enterprise step places the lawyer firmly in control of interpreting the output, assessing its relevance to the client’s requirements and determining the appropriate course of action. The protocol is designed to ensure that RIA accelerates the work that precedes a lawyer’s decision, without displacing the decision itself.
The development of RIA within a legal practice environment reflects ZeusIP’s broader approach to responsible innovation in legal services. Its development is guided by the principle that technology should operate within the professional standards of legal practice, with particular emphasis on human oversight, confidentiality, reliability and traceability of information.
Gunjan Paharia added:
“This launch is an important first step in a much larger journey for us. We believe technology will fundamentally change how legal work is done and how legal services are delivered, and we want to help shape that change from within the profession. Our ambition is to build a technology-enabled model where AI takes on the work that can be automated, while lawyers have greater capacity for judgment, strategy, advocacy and client advice. For us, responsible innovation is not about adopting technology for its own sake; it is about using technology thoughtfully to strengthen the way lawyers work and, ultimately, deliver greater value to clients.”
Looking ahead, ZeusIP will continue to expand RIA’s capabilities across trademarks, patents and litigation, with further modules and fine-tuned models being rolled out over the coming weeks and months. With capabilities including full-search functionality across its repository of close to eight million documents and email response functionality already live, ZeusIP aims to build a scalable, technology-enabled model for delivering IP legal services. Through the platform, ZeusIP seeks to contribute to the evolving conversation around responsible AI in intellectual property practice, demonstrating how technology can be thoughtfully integrated into legal services while preserving the role of professional expertise.
