Invention disclosure session
A structured conversation, under confidentiality, in which a specialist draws out what you actually invented — often broader than what you first describe, sometimes narrower, always more precise.
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Patentability search & opinion
A patent application is an investment made on one assumption: that the invention is new and non-obvious. A patentability search tests that assumption for a fraction of the cost of filing — and the written opinion that closes it tells you not just whether to file, but how to frame the invention so the application starts strong.
WHAT THIS SERVICE IS
Understanding patentability search & opinion
The Indian Patent Office examines every application against the whole of the world's prior art — every earlier patent, published application, journal paper, product manual, conference talk and website, in any language, anywhere. Novelty in India is absolute and worldwide. An application drafted without knowing that landscape is a guess, and expensive to correct: defects traceable to the original disclosure generally cannot be repaired after filing.
Our search covers patent literature across the major offices (India, US, EP, WIPO, and others relevant to your field) and non-patent literature where the field demands it — journals for pharma and biotech, standards documents and repositories for software and electronics, trade publications for mechanical fields. We search the way an examiner searches: by classification, by citation chains, and by the field's own vocabulary, not just by the words you would use for your invention.
What you receive is not a pile of PDFs. It is a written opinion: the closest references found, a feature-by-feature comparison against your invention, an honest assessment of novelty and inventive step, and — where the picture is mixed — the specific angle of the invention that still looks protectable. Many of our strongest applications began as mixed search results reframed around the feature the prior art missed.
The search also protects you commercially. Filing an application that is later refused costs government fees, professional fees and — most expensively — eighteen months of a public disclosure your competitors can read. An honest search result that says "do not file this as it stands" is some of the cheapest advice in intellectual property.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Everything this engagement covers
Worldwide patent-literature search
Classification-based and keyword-based searching across Indian and international patent databases, including published applications that have not yet granted — these count as prior art too.
Non-patent literature where it matters
Journals, standards, product documentation and archived web material, chosen by field. In some technologies the killing reference is never a patent.
Feature-by-feature comparison chart
Your invention's features mapped against each close reference, so you can see exactly what is old, what is arguably old, and what is new.
Written patentability opinion
A clear conclusion on novelty and inventive step, the Section 3 exclusions that could apply, and a recommendation: file, file with a specific framing, or do not file.
Filing strategy recommendation
If the opinion supports filing: provisional or complete, what the claims should centre on, and which fee category you can claim. The search flows straight into drafting with nothing lost.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You'll recognise yourself here
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First-time inventors who need to know if the idea is worth protecting before committing to filing costs
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Startups deciding between patent spend and product spend this quarter
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MSMEs and companies screening a portfolio of internal ideas to pick the ones worth filing
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Researchers checking an invention against the literature they know and the patents they usually don't
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Anyone whose screener result on this site flagged novelty or inventive-step risk
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Prepare before the call — free
HOW IT RUNS
The process, step by step
Disclose
You describe the invention in a confidential session. A one-page disclosure format is provided if you prefer to write it down first.
Search
The specialist runs the patent and non-patent search, iterating as the closest art reshapes the queries.
Analyse
Close references are compared feature by feature against your invention, and the Section 3 exclusions are checked.
Opine
You receive the written opinion and walk through it on a call — including, where the news is mixed, what could still be protected.
A note on timelines: How long each stage takes varies with the invention, the route you choose and the Patent Office's workload — your specialist gives you a current, honest estimate at the start, and updates it as the file moves.
WHERE IT GOES WRONG
The mistakes this service exists to prevent
Searching only in English, only in patents
Examiners cite journal articles, Japanese utility models and archived product pages. A search that stops at an English-language patent database produces false confidence.
Searching your words instead of the field's words
Inventors name their invention; the prior art names it differently. Classification-based searching catches what keyword searching misses.
Treating a clean search as a guarantee
No search can prove a negative — unpublished applications are invisible for up to eighteen months. An opinion states confidence honestly rather than promising certainty.
Skipping the search to save money
The most expensive search is the one the examiner does for you, three years after you paid to file, in a First Examination Report that cites art you could have known about.
SERVICE FAQ
Asked about patentability search & opinion
A question of your own?
Ask it on WhatsApp — a member of the patent team replies, not a bot.
Ask on WhatsAppHow is this different from me searching Google Patents myself?
Self-searching is genuinely useful and we encourage it — it costs nothing and sometimes finds a knockout reference in minutes. The difference is method and judgment: professional searching uses patent classifications, citation networks and field-specific databases, and the opinion weighs what a reference actually discloses against what your claims would need. Most of the value is in the analysis, not the list of results.
Do I risk disclosing my invention by having it searched?
No. The disclosure session and everything that follows is under confidentiality, and searching itself publishes nothing. Filing — not searching — is what starts the publication clock.
What if the search finds my exact invention?
Then you have saved the entire cost of a doomed filing, and the opinion will say so plainly. Often, though, a close reference differs in one feature — and that difference, properly claimed, can still support a patent. That judgement call is exactly what the opinion is for.
Is a freedom-to-operate search the same thing?
No — patentability asks "can I get a patent?"; freedom to operate asks "can I sell this without infringing someone else's live patent?". They search similar literature with different questions. If your product is launching, ask us about FTO alongside patentability — the searches share cost when run together.
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