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Buy the reports you need, when you need them. There is no subscription, no card is kept on file, and anything you buy stays on your account until you use it.
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Patent Search Report
Your disclosure is read, its technical features are pulled out for you to correct, and several independent searches are run against them.
On screen and as a PDF.
- Your invention as we understood it, and the problem it addresses
- The key features it was searched on, as you confirmed them
- A search of patents from jurisdictions worldwide
- Results grouped as Relevant, Related and Interesting
- Title, filing date and abstract as the patent register holds them
- A drawing and a link to open each document
- Your invention as we understood it, and the problem it addresses
- The key features it was searched on, as you confirmed them
- A search of patents from jurisdictions worldwide
- Results grouped as Relevant, Related and Interesting
- Title, filing date and abstract as the patent register holds them
- A drawing and a link to open each document
What you get
A patent search report, on screen and as a PDF.
Your invention, as we understood it
A short summary of the invention and the problem it addresses, so you can check the search was aimed at the right thing.
The features it was searched on
The key features you confirmed, in your own numbering, and how they work together where that was searched too.
Three groups of results
Relevant, Related and Interesting, with what each group means, so the closest documents are not buried among the rest.
The register’s own data
Each document’s title, filing date and abstract as the patent register holds them.
See it, then open it
A drawing from each document where one is available, and a link to open the full document.
Plain about its limits
A disclaimer that says what the search does not establish, in the report itself as well as here.
What a report cannot tell you
Whether your invention is patentable
That is a legal judgement about your claims as they end up being written, made by a patent attorney and ultimately by an examiner. This finds prior art; it does not weigh it for you.
That nothing else exists
A search finds what it finds. Applications stay unpublished for eighteen months, some registers are not searchable, and non-patent material — a product manual, a conference paper — is largely outside any of them.
Anything about freedom to operate
That is a different search, against live claims in force in a particular country, and this is not it.
A report says what was searched for, where, and what came back, and it says plainly what it does not establish. That is worth more to somebody deciding whether to spend twenty thousand on a filing than a confident answer would be.
How paying works
Free reports first
You are only asked to pay once the free reports on your account are started.
One payment
For what you chose. Nothing renews and nothing is stored for a future charge.
No expiry
Reports you have bought stay on your account until you use them.
Failures are free
If a report fails to complete it costs you nothing. Pick it up again from your drafts.
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