Porta Sophia

Porta Sophia is a Madison, Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization focused on psychedelics and the intellectual property landscape surrounding psychedelic therapies. Rather than developing drugs, it curates a searchable library of scientific, historical, cultural, archival, and other prior art related to psychedelic compounds and uses that database to support patent review, patentability assessments, freedom-to-operate analysis, and third-party patent interventions. The organization works to prevent overly broad or invalid psychedelic patents while supporting defensible, novel patents and broader access to psychedelic therapies. Its users include innovators, patent practitioners, investors, the public, and patent examiners. Porta Sophia has also been recognized by the USPTO as an official prior art resource for this niche.