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Patent searches can give you a reasonable head start in research and development, to see and understand the state of the art, so that you can improve upon it and make wise R&D investment decisions.

If you plan to manufacture, or import some product, someone else's patent may become a source of liability. Check and see if there are any existing patents covering all or part of your product, before manufacturing or importing it.

To find out if your idea is already patented, let us perform a patent search for you. Chances are that there is something out there that will limit the boundaries of what you can claim as your invention. After all, most patent applications just describe improvements on existing technology, which has not yet been commercialized.

GOOD NEWS:

In the USA, title C of a new Patent Law, No. 106-113, provides a limited defense against patent infringement to inventors who developed and used a business method prior to that method being patented by another party.

We offer full text and class by class patent searches of inventions on the US and Canadian patent databases.

We have online access to US patents issued since 1790 and to Canadian patents and applications filed since 1922. Patents filed in the past 18 months in Canada or elsewhere are secret and may cause future surprises.

Simple invention searches and business method searches are available from $299.00 + GST.

Note: Exhaustive searches may run as high as $20,000 - especially when trying to debunk a patent in popular areas of technology.

Our searcher, a law grad, has a 4 year University degree in Mechanical Engineering. Searches for high-tech mechanical inventions start from $699.00 + GST.

Prices will vary, as some areas of technology have a plethora of issued and pending patents.

Patentability and infringement opinions may be given after a search has been completed, for an additional fee, by a registered patent attorney.

The Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) does not apply to patent searches for non-Canadian clients, however, it does apply to efiling their Canadian patent applications.