The Patent Decision Platform for Corporate R&D

Describe your technical solution: start with a patentability assessment (included on sign-up), then turn it into a complete application draft

How it fits togetherFour steps: is it worth doing, how far others have gone, which direction to take it, then turn it into a filing draft.

Not sure where to start? Start at step one and describe your solution in a sentence — sign-up includes two runs, and results take a few minutes.

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Plates

Great inventions all began as patents

FIG. 1 — Edison's Electric LampUS 223,898 · 1880

FIG. 2 — Bell's TelephonyUS 174,465 · 1876

FIG. 3 — Tesla's Electro-Magnetic MotorUS 381,968 · 1888

FIG. 4 — The Wright Flying MachineUS 821,393 · 1906

FIG. 5 — Goddard's Rocket ApparatusUS 1,102,653 · 1914

FIG. 6 — Shockley's TransistorUS 2,569,347 · 1951

FIG. 7 — The First BarcodeUS 2,612,994 · 1952

FIG. 8 — The Laser (Optical Maser)US 2,929,922 · 1960

FIG. 9 — Robotic Surgery SystemUS 5,762,458 · 1998

FIG. 10 — Apple's Handheld DesignUS D618,677 · 2010

FIG. 11 — CRISPR-Cas9 Gene EditingUS 8,697,359 · 2014

FIG. 12 — DJI Aerial VehicleUS 9,284,049 · 2016

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What each one does

Four tools, one at a time

2 free uses

Find out whether the idea is worth taking further

Describe the technical solution and get a multi-angle read in minutes: how close it sits to existing art, where the novelty might be, what obviously trips it up. This is a patentability assessment, not a verdict on whether an office will grant it — that takes a registered attorney and a formal search.

[1001]A signal on each of four dimensions: novelty, inventive step, industrial applicability, eligible subject matter
[1002]Points at the closest existing art and says where the overlap sits
[1003]Tells you what to do next, rather than stopping at "consider filing"

Patent diagnostic reportSample

Overall signalStrong signal

Novelty: Strong signal
Inventive step: Moderate signal
Industrial applicability: Strong signal
Eligible subject matter: Strong signal

The core contribution sits in the control timing, and it reads as distinguishable from the closest existing art.

Suggested filing typeInvention patent

FIG. 1 — Diagnostic report (illustrative)

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See how far others have already gone

Semantic search across a real patent database lays out who has worked this direction, how far they got, and what is still open. You can also look up one specific publication number. Everything returned is a real patent from the database — a research aid, not a novelty or freedom-to-operate opinion.

[2001]Every hit carries its number, applicant, filing date and abstract, expandable to full text
[2002]Semantic search for the direction, number lookup for one specific document
[2003]Searching itself costs no credits; only the analysis report is charged

Semantic search resultsSample

CN 1••••••• A
Temperature control device with timing-based feedback and control method thereof
Applicant: Sample Technologies Ltd.Filed: 2019-03-11
A temperature control device that samples the chamber at multiple points and adjusts heating power on a timed feedback loop, addressing the overshoot seen in existing designs under sudden load changes.
US 1••••••• B2
Adaptive heating control system
Applicant: Sample Research InstituteFiled: 2021-07-02
An adaptive heating control system comprising a temperature sampling module and a power adjustment module, where power is stepped along a preset curve.

FIG. 2 — Search results (illustrative)

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Where to take it next, with patent data as ammunition

Turn the direction you already have into an R&D roadmap: which directions are still open, what to validate next, and what counts as validated. This is a research roadmap, not a patent application.

[3001]Anything you have not actually done is left blank and marked "to be validated" — never invented for you
[3002]Each direction says why it is worth trying and where it is likely to stall
[3003]You can carry the search results from the previous step straight in

R&D roadmapSample

Direction 1: make the feedback interval vary with load instead of holding it fixed
Existing art all uses a fixed interval, so there may be room here.
Direction 2: replace multi-point sampling with one sensor plus a model
Saves two sensors, but how much accuracy is lostTo be validated

Validate next

Compare overshoot between the two feedback-interval strategies under a sudden load change.

FIG. 3 — R&D roadmap (illustrative)

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Turn the work you have done into a full first-draft application

With the direction settled and the measurements in hand, the material becomes a complete first draft — claims, description, drawing descriptions and abstract. A machine-check report ships with it, listing what still needs human verification, for your patent attorney to review before anything is filed.

[4001]Claims, description, drawing descriptions and abstract, all in one pass
[4002]Figures that cannot be derived from your input are left blank — no invented experimental data
[4003]Ships with a machine-check report listing must-verify and should-verify items

ClaimsSample

1. A temperature control device comprising a chamber, a temperature sampling unit disposed within said chamber, and a control unit coupled to said temperature sampling unit, characterised in that said control unit is configured to adjust the feedback interval of the heating power in dependence on the outputs of said temperature sampling unit at a plurality of successive sampling instants…

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Machine-check report

Lists must-verify and should-verify items for your attorney to review.

FIG. 4 — First-draft application (illustrative)