How Good Is a Patent Search?
Unfortunately, no one can guarantee a patent search, not even the USPTO. To provide you a service commensurate with your financial situation, we provide various levels of searching options, each providing different degrees of depth and breadth of our search. In our most basic search , our goal is to determine, with high confidence, if the exact invention has been previously disclosed in a patent. In our most comprehensive level of search we search patents and printed publications to determine, with reasonably high confidence, if the exact invention exist, or an obvious variation can be construed based on one or more prior-art reference in combination. A patentability opinion would then be rendered to advise you if you should proceed with a patent application. The corresponding cost can run from a couple of hundred dollars (e.g., if you did an extensive search and the patentability opinion is strait forward) to a thousand dollars (e.g., if you did not do an extensive search for a comple
