Prior Art Press

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An independent publishing studio.

Prior Art Press

Prior Art PressPrior Art PressPrior Art Press

An independent publishing studio.

Innovative Publishing

Prior Art Press publishes propulsive, intelligent fiction that treats the world of patents and litigation with the same narrative weight and dramatic tension usually reserved for political thrillers and espionage sagas.




WHAT SETS US APART

Fiction that respects your intelligence.

Fiction that respects your intelligence.

Fiction that respects your intelligence.

We publish stories built on real strategy, real stakes, and real systems—thrillers that don’t condescend or simplify the world they reveal.

Authentic insight.

Fiction that respects your intelligence.

Fiction that respects your intelligence.

Our narratives are grounded in the actual mechanisms of innovation, law, and power. No shortcuts, no clichés—just the tension that comes from how these worlds truly work.

A singular, coherent creative vision.

Fiction that respects your intelligence.

A singular, coherent creative vision.

Prior Art Press focuses on stories with purpose: tightly crafted, deeply considered, and designed for readers who want more than formula.

Our Titles

The Litigation Protocol— Now Available

A startup’s breakthrough. A giant’s betrayal. A legal system where different rooms decide different realities.


For readers who crave smart, high‑stakes fiction where ideas are weapons and the battlefield is strategy, not spectacle.


The debut novel in the Patent Wars series, The Litigation Protocol is a razor‑sharp legal thriller about ambition, betrayal, and the fragile hope that survives even when the system is built to break you.


Book front cover for The Litigation Protocol.

Set at the intersection of innovation, secrecy, and corporate power, The Litigation Protocol introduces a world where every action carries consequences—and every procedural move can change the outcome.


Get your copy today. 

Group of people sitting outside a federal courthouse awaiting a jury verdict.

When NovaTech’s founders secure their first patent, CEO Maya Singh believes they finally have the foothold they need in the brutal world of tech innovation. But their triumph draws the attention of Titan Corp, a predatory giant infamous for crushing smaller rivals. After a promising partnership turns into a calculated theft, NovaTech launches a federal lawsuit that pits truth against power in a gripping courtroom battle.

Start-up team members coding.

With a whistleblower risking everything and a jury ready to deliver justice, NovaTech seems poised to win its David‑versus‑Goliath fight. But Titan has one more weapon: the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, a procedure‑driven forum where a single ruling can erase a company’s future.

Group of people gathered before a window in a skyscraper conference room.

If you enjoy:


  • Legal thrillers with realistic courtroom battles
  • Corporate intrigue driven by betrayal and power
  • Tech-industry drama grounded in today's innovation landscape
  • Stories about resilience against impossible odds


…then The Litigation Protocol belongs at the top of your reading list.

Introducing Erin Park

The Innovation Protocol — Coming Fall 2026

The next saga in the Patent Wars series.


If you enjoyed the high‑stakes intrigue of The Litigation Protocol, venture into the world of patent prosecution—this time not to expose a conspiracy, but to confront one hidden in plain sight.

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Set at the collision point of invention, ambition, and secrecy, The Innovation Protocol pulls readers inside the opaque world where breakthrough ideas are born… and where the people behind them are willing to rewrite the rules of innovation itself.

When a seemingly routine invention disclosure crosses patent attorney Erin Park’s desk, it triggers a chain of events that makes her question everything she knows about her colleagues, her clients, and the innovation ecosystem she has sworn to uphold. What begins as a minor curiosity soon reveals a pattern—one too precise to be accidental and too dangerous to ignore.

Readers who loved The Litigation Protocol will enjoy…

this deeper dive into the shadowed corners of the Patent Wars universe, as Erin Park steps into view for the first time in a story that trades courtroom fireworks for the slow fuse of invention—where a single disclosure can spark a war, and the truth hides not in testimony but in the fine print of innovation itself.

About The Author

Tarek N. Fahmi is a patent attorney with more than three decades of experience guiding startups and global technology companies through the high‑stakes world of intellectual property strategy and litigation. His career has placed him at the center of innovation—from Silicon Valley labs to federal courtrooms and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—giving him insider insight into how ideas are protected, contested, and sometimes destroyed.

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