Stage 01
Discover opportunities
Find where the unsolved problem in your field could become a technical invention.
Output: preliminary idea direction
Innovation discovery and IP guidance
Turn what you know into what you can own.
Share your field, research, idea, or unresolved problem. We help uncover invention directions, examine the patent landscape, and guide the strongest concept toward protection.
Confidential intake · Field-specific guidance · Clear next steps
Fig. 1 — Signal to structure
Choose your starting point
Where are you starting?
Four honest starting points. Pick the one that sounds like you and we will name the next step — no forms, no commitment, no jargon.
Recommended next step
Research-to-invention review
We read your findings, methods, and anomalies with an invention lens, then flag what looks distinguishable and what your publication dates mean for your options.
You receive
A shortlist of candidate inventive elements, a written invention architecture for the strongest one, and a sequence that respects your dates.
See how research reviews workProtecting a brand or a product's appearance instead? Trademark, design, and copyright work differently.
What the work actually is
More than filing. A clearer path from possibility to protection.
Each stage produces something you can hold, read, and act on — not a status update.
Stage 02
Test the difference
Search the literature and the patent record to see what already exists and how close it is.
Output: prior-art map and novelty hypothesis
Stage 03
Develop the invention
Turn a rough concept or a research result into a disclosure a drafter can work from.
Output: invention disclosure with variants
Stage 04
Plan protection
Decide route, jurisdiction, timing, and budget — including when the answer is to wait.
Output: filing action plan
Any field
Your field does not need to fit a dropdown.
From agricultural systems and advanced materials to healthcare, software, manufacturing, consumer products, and interdisciplinary research, start with the problem you understand. If your field is not listed, describe it in your own words.
Agriculture and food systems
AI, software, and data systems
Mechanical and industrial engineering
Electronics, IoT, and robotics
Healthcare, dental, and medical devices
Pharma, biotech, and life sciences
Chemistry, materials, and nanotechnology
Energy and climate technology
Civil, infrastructure, and water
Manufacturing and quality systems
Consumer and assistive products
Education and social-impact systems
Other / interdisciplinary
Every field opens the same intake with that field pre-selected. You can change it, add a second field, or type your own.
The free first step
Need an invention direction, not another blank form?
Tell us the field, the problem, the people affected, and the outcome you want. We use that context to prepare a preliminary invention direction and recommend the right next step.
What you receive
- One preliminary concept direction written in plain language
- The problem and proposed mechanism — what actually does the work
- Possible differentiators to investigate further
- The questions that most affect novelty or feasibility
- A recommended path: search, development, or protection
Limitation
A preliminary direction is not a patentability opinion or a guarantee. Patentability depends on prior art, claim scope, jurisdiction, disclosure history, and qualified review.
Services
Grouped by the decision you are trying to make.
Each service states who it is for, what you provide, what you receive, and where its limits are. See all services.
Find the opportunity
For people who do not yet know where the invention is.
Idea discovery
Turn a field or an unsolved problem into preliminary invention directions worth investigating.
Research-to-invention review
A structured read of your findings, methods, or prototype to locate what may be inventive.
Patent landscape
Map who is filing what, where, and which technical areas are still open.
Test the opportunity
For concepts that need evidence before money is spent.
Prior-art search
Structured searching of patent and non-patent literature, with the strategy documented.
Patentability assessment
Analysis of what the references mean for novelty, inventive step, and claim scope.
Freedom to operate
Map in-force patent claims against your product features in the countries you sell in.
Protect and progress
For inventions that are ready to be written down and filed.
Invention disclosure development
Turn a concept or result into a complete, drafting-ready invention disclosure.
Patent drafting
Specification, embodiments, drawings, and claim strategy, with review at each stage.
Filing support
Route decisions, documents, and coordination, with official fees explained up front.
Post-filing support
Examination responses, claim amendments, and portfolio upkeep after filing.
Protect other IP
Names, appearance, and creative work are protected differently.
Trademark
Availability searching, class selection, and application support for names and marks.
Industrial design
Register the appearance of a product: shape, configuration, pattern, or ornamentation.
Copyright
Registration support for software, literary, artistic, and educational works.
Methodology
A structured path, even when the idea is still unstructured.
The same five moves apply whether you arrive with a dissertation, a prototype, or a problem you have not been able to shake.
Read the full method-
01
Understand
Field, problem, existing research, constraints, and what you actually want to happen next.
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02
Explore
Related technologies, adjacent solution spaces, and the directions worth taking seriously.
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03
Differentiate
Prior art, key features, alternatives, and a novelty hypothesis you can argue.
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04
Define
A coherent invention architecture written as a disclosure others can work from.
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Direct
Search, prototype, draft, file, analyse freedom to operate — or wait. Sometimes the answer is do not file yet.
How we work
What we will and will not tell you.
We would rather lose a project than oversell an outcome that patent offices, examiners, and prior art will decide.
We separate what is known from what is argued
A search result is evidence. A patentability view is an argument built on that evidence. A legal opinion is something only appropriately qualified professionals can give. We label which one you are reading.
We show the search strategy, not just the hits
You receive the classifications, keywords, and databases used, and an explicit statement of what the search did not cover — including the publication delay that hides recent filings.
"Do not file yet" is a real recommendation
Sometimes the honest answer is to gather more data, redesign around what already exists, or protect something else entirely. You will hear that answer when it applies.
Your material stays yours
Submissions are handled as confidential business information, are not published, and are never used as public examples without written permission. Read the confidentiality summary.
Questions
The things people ask before they trust us with an idea.
A written preliminary direction for your field: the problem as we understand it, a proposed mechanism, possible differentiators to investigate, the questions that most affect novelty or feasibility, and a recommended next step. It is exploratory guidance, not a patentability opinion.
Requests are handled as confidential business information, are not published, and are not used as public examples without written permission. Confidentiality is a matter of contract, so start with a non-confidential overview. If your material needs formal protection before you share it, ask us about executing a confidentiality agreement first.
No. Give us enough to understand the problem and the field — not enabling technical detail, unpublished claim language, or trade secrets. We will tell you what we need next and how to send it safely.
No. Patentability depends on prior art, claim scope, subject-matter rules in each country, and your own disclosure history. Anyone who tells you an idea is patentable before a search has been done is guessing.
A prior-art search finds what already exists. A patentability assessment interprets those references against novelty and inventive step for your concept. A freedom-to-operate analysis is a different question entirely: whether your product could fall within someone else's live claims in a country where you plan to sell.
That is the best time to talk. Public disclosure before filing affects rights differently in different countries, and some options close permanently. Bring your submission and conference dates to the first conversation.
Yes. Students and early-career researchers are a core audience. If your institution owns rights in your work, we will help you understand that before anything is filed.
Describe it in your own words. The intake accepts any field, including interdisciplinary work that does not sit neatly in one category.
No, and no one honestly can. Grant is decided by patent offices on their own criteria and timelines. We can improve the quality of the evidence, the disclosure, and the claim strategy behind your application.
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