Easy to start. Easy to scale. Easy to stop.
A first engagement should cost you almost nothing but a brief — and prove itself before you commit anything bigger.
Brief
Send the invention disclosure, patent number or technology area, target jurisdictions and your deadline. A few lines is enough to start.
Scope, price & NDA
I confirm exactly what's in and out of scope, quote a per-matter price, agree a realistic date, and sign your NDA and conflict-clearance.
Search & document
Classification-led search across the right databases, with the full strategy log captured as I go and a self-check before delivery.
Deliver & refine
Report in your template (Word/Excel/PDF), with one round of refinement included. We set a rhythm only if it suits you.
Judge the work before you trust it.
The hardest part of choosing a new search partner is uncertainty. So I remove it: pick one representative matter and I'll run it as a free or fixed-fee pilot. You assess the depth, the documented strategy log and the report format against your own standards — then decide.
No retainer. No minimum volume. No long-term contract to escape from later.
- Pilot — one representative search, free or fixed-fee, to prove quality
- Per-matter — priced case by case; pay only for the searches you send
- Hourly — for charting, landscapes and open-ended research
- Monthly capacity — predictable hours for steady pipelines
What protects you on every matter
NDA-first
Your NDA and conflict-clearance are signed before any confidential detail is shared. Matters stay siloed.
Defensible record
A reproducible search log accompanies every search, so counsel can stand behind how the art was found.
Realistic dates
I quote a turnaround I can actually hit. Rush handling is available and flagged honestly when it applies.
Everything buyers ask, answered
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.
Pricing is deliberately not posted, because a quick novelty read and a multi-jurisdiction invalidity hunt are not the same job. Engagements are scoped and priced per matter and kept affordable, with per-report, hourly, and monthly-capacity options. You always see the scope and price before work starts.
I work on IST (GMT+5:30): full overlap with EU/UK mornings, APAC and the Middle East, and an evening window with US East Coast. Turnaround is scoped per matter — most standard searches land within a few business days, with rush handling available. I quote a realistic date up front rather than over-promising.
Search coverage is global through patent and non-patent databases, with procedural fluency deepest in India and working capability across the US, EPO and PCT/WIPO. Commerce-driven domains (fintech, e-commerce, business methods, agritech, consumer products) are a direct fit; deep-tech domains are handled with a structured technical-literacy framework and honest scoping.
Send a short brief through the contact form or email — the invention, patent number, or technology area, your target jurisdictions, and your deadline. I confirm scope and price, sign an NDA if needed, and we run a pilot. From there it is as light-touch or as ongoing as suits you.