Patent search done like an examiner — documented, defensible, delivered.
IPCare360 is founder-led, non-legal patent search and IP analytics support for law firms, attorneys and corporate innovation teams. You brief one person, that person does the work, and you get back closest art mapped to the inventive concept — with a search log you can defend.
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Word & Excel, in your template
You are not short on talent. You are short on the right hours.
Most IP teams already search. They outsource for overflow capacity, extra domain reach, and to free senior people from time-heavy work — not because they can't do it. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Specific services, scoped to what I actually do well
No generic menu. These are the searches and analyses I run end-to-end — each handed back documented, in your format.
Patentability & Novelty Search
Know whether an invention is worth filing — before you spend on drafting and prosecution.
DetailsInvalidity / Validity Search
Find the reference that kills a claim — or confirm it survives — for opposition, litigation or licensing leverage.
DetailsFreedom-to-Operate (FTO) Search
Map the in-force patents standing between your client and a market — before launch, not after a cease-and-desist.
DetailsPatent Landscape & State-of-the-Art
See who owns what in a technology space — players, white space, trends and filing momentum.
DetailsClaim Charting & Evidence-of-Use (EoU)
Element-by-element charts that map a claim onto a product, standard or prior-art reference.
DetailsPatent Monitoring & Watch
Standing alerts on a competitor, an assignee, a technology area or a specific application family.
DetailsCommercialisation & Technology-Transfer Mapping
Connect a patent or portfolio to the markets, licensees and applications where it can actually earn.
DetailsIP Support & Docketing Assistance
The careful administrative work that drains paralegal hours — handled accurately, on your system.
DetailsA light, transparent way to start
Designed so a first engagement costs you almost nothing but a brief.
Brief
Send the invention, patent number or technology area, your target jurisdictions and your deadline.
Scope & NDA
I confirm exactly what's included, agree a realistic date and a per-matter price, and sign your NDA.
Search & document
I run the search, capture the full strategy log, and self-check the result before it leaves my desk.
Deliver & refine
You get a report in your template, with one round of refinement included. Scale up only if it fits.
The person you brief is the person searching.
In most search shops your matter passes through a sales layer, a coordinator and a junior analyst before anyone touches a database. Here there is no handoff to dilute it — and a rare cross-discipline background behind it.
Reads a patent like a lawyer
Law qualification plus 12+ years teaching corporate, industrial and business law — claims and exclusions are familiar ground.
Structures a search like an analyst
Classification-led method, Boolean/proximity logic, citation and INPADOC family analysis — documented every time.
Assesses value like a businessperson
Commerce and management background that connects a patent to markets, licensees and commercial intent.
- A reproducible search strategy log — databases, classifications, query strings, dates
- Closest references mapped to the inventive concept, not a raw hit-dump
- Honest scoping — strong reads and stretch reads flagged as what they are
- Delivery in your template (Word / Excel / PDF), ready to drop into your workflow
- One round of refinement, and a single point of contact throughout
Global databases. Real procedural fluency.
Questions buyers actually ask
No. IPCare360 provides non-legal technical and analytical support — search, charting, landscapes, monitoring and IP administration. All legal advice, opinions, prosecution and representation stay with your qualified patent attorney or agent. That boundary is deliberate, and it is exactly why firms can hand work over without conflict.
Try it first. I offer a free or fixed-fee pilot on one representative matter of your choice, so you can judge the search depth, the documented strategy log and the report format against your own standards before any larger engagement. No retainer, no minimum, no long-term lock-in.
Most firms outsource for overflow capacity, extra domain reach, or to free senior people from time-heavy work like claim charting and landscape clean-up — not because they cannot search. You get a documented, reproducible result and a single point of contact who actually does the work, billed per-matter so it flexes with your pipeline.
I do. IPCare360 is founder-led, so the person you brief is the person searching, and there is no junior-analyst handoff diluting quality. As volume grows, any expansion will be managed under the same documented methodology and QA discipline.
I am happy to sign your NDA before any disclosure, follow conflict-clearance protocols, and keep matters siloed. Invention disclosures and asserted-patent details are handled as strictly confidential and never reused across clients.