First screen on sign-up · FTO check · a few minutes before you launch
Will the product you are about to ship read on someone else's live patent? Run a deep FTO screen: describe your product, pick your target markets, and the tool searches relevant patents, lays out feature-by-feature structured evidence, and hands you a checklist of questions for your attorney.
First screen included on sign-up, then 2 credits each · sign up to view the full result
A deeper self-serve analysis than the first-pass scan — broader retrieval, structured evidence, and a lawyer checklist. Not a lawyer-grade full FTO.
International site covers global major jurisdictions; the domestic (CN) site is limited to US/CN due to data-compliance. Retrieval cost scales with the number of jurisdictions.
Patent infringement is strict liability — not knowing is not a defense
Once you are selling or exporting, a patent owner can seek an injunction and customs can seize goods. Pulling the product, recalls, and damages cost far more than a few minutes of checking up front.
Platforms like Amazon often pull a listing on a patent complaint before you can respond. Knowing the risk early gives you room to redesign, license, or prepare a response.
Investors ask whether you can sell your product freely. Better to know before you are put on the spot in a data room.
Not a yes/no verdict — material you can actually take to an attorney
Live patents that may be relevant in the markets you picked (US, CN, EP and more), instead of you searching the haystack yourself.
Your product's features mapped against the claims of the patents found, flagging where they may overlap. You see the basis, not a black-box verdict.
An auto-compiled list of points to confirm with an attorney, so the attorney time you spend later is cheaper and more focused.
Write out the core function, structure or how it works, and target markets. The more specific, the sharper the search.
Select the markets you will sell in (US, China, Europe, and more). The China site supports US and CN due to data-export rules.
The tool searches, compares, and organizes the evidence into a per-jurisdiction screen plus an attorney question list. Sign up to view the full result.
The deep screen surfaces obvious risk and focuses the right questions before launch. Need the depth? The self-serve full report (100 credits, first order half price) runs the complete 11-step pipeline: claim charts, risk matrix, DOE, validity assessment, design-around directions, and exportable files. Neither replaces a formal FTO opinion from an attorney, and nothing can guarantee your product never infringes. For high-stakes decisions — a real launch, exports, answering investors — take the results to an attorney.
Need an attorney-grade full FTO report →Sign-up includes 1 deep screen; after that each screen costs 2 credits. New users also get 25 bonus credits. Sign up to view the full result. A full attorney-grade report later is a separate paid service.
No — and no tool or attorney can give that absolute guarantee. It helps you quickly surface obvious risk and focus the key questions for you and your attorney to judge.
This tool is a self-serve screen that returns structured evidence and a question list in minutes; the human FTO service is a full, claim-by-claim analysis by an attorney for formal decisions. Screen first with the tool, then decide whether to engage the service.
The international site covers major jurisdictions including the US, China, and Europe; the China site supports China and the US due to data-export rules.
Your description is used only for this search and analysis. For unpublished inventions, describe only enough to search, or consult first before uploading details. Results are saved to your run history, where you can delete them at any time.
Two paths: take the description to Design-Around to find another technical route around the blocking patents, or engage an attorney for a full FTO or licensing talks. The tool organizes the points to raise with your attorney.
Disclaimer
This tool provides a self-serve preliminary search and analysis. It is not legal advice and does not guarantee the completeness of the search or the accuracy of any conclusion. Whether patent infringement risk exists, and how to address it, should be determined by a qualified patent attorney's formal opinion.