Before you invest in a patent application, you should know whether your idea is new. A patent search compares your invention with the “prior art” – earlier patents, patent applications and publications anywhere in the world.
Step 1: Free preliminary search in our historical database*
Over more than 25 years we have carried out thousands of patent searches and reviewed tens of thousands of patents. We first check your idea against this historical database – free of charge.
Sometimes this preliminary check already answers the main question. In other cases it helps us focus: for example, how to gain more confidence in your “freedom to operate”, or how to shape the claims of your application before an examiner raises objections.
* The free preliminary search covers only searches our office has carried out in the past. It is not a search of the global patent databases. If no similar patent is found in our database, that is not enough – a dedicated professional search of the worldwide databases is still required.
Step 2: Professional online patent search (via Zoom)
We carry out a professional search of the worldwide patent databases live, in a video meeting with you, the inventor. You see the results as we find them and can explain your invention in your own words. The meeting can be recorded.
Price: from ILS 1,100. After this stage we can move on to patent drafting and filing.
Choose a day and time in our calendar and we will meet on Zoom →
What a patentability search answers
- Is your idea within the scope of what can be patented?
- What relevant prior art exists, so you can decide whether to invest in a patent application – before spending time and money?
- How should the claims be drafted? If earlier patents claim the elements X and Y, your claims will need to differ from or add to them.
What a patentability search does not answer
- It cannot predict the final decision of a patent examiner, and an examiner may still find prior art that a search did not uncover.
- It does not tell you whether your product infringes someone else’s patent. For that, a separate Freedom to Operate (FTO) search is recommended.
- Combining features from two earlier patents (for example a pencil with an eraser, and a pencil with an LED) may be considered obvious to a person skilled in the art, even if no single patent shows your exact invention.
A quick do-it-yourself search
You can start yourself with free tools: describe the core of your invention in 4–5 key words (for example “device deliver medicine baby”) and search in Google Patents, WIPO Patentscope or The Lens. Read the titles first, then open the most relevant results and look at the drawings and the abstract. Refine your key words as you go.
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