What’s in a Standard Assessment?
How can an independent invention assessment help?
Other benefits
Can you trust us?
To start the ball rolling
What’s in a Standard Assessment?
For £295 we’ll send you a report in plain English that normally includes:
- An online patent search, including copies or extracts of patents that we think are relevant to your idea. We explain how we think our findings affect your invention’s prospects.
- An online search for existing products and other market information that may affect your invention’s commercial prospects. Again, we’ll copy information to you and explain what we think it all means.
- Comments on design and technical aspects of your idea.
- Our overall conclusion about the strengths and weaknesses of your invention, and advice on what to consider doing next.
- Referral to sources of possible further assistance.
How can an independent invention assessment help?
'One of the most important things for an inventor to know
is when he's wasting his time'
Dave Melton, inventor of Firetrace fire protection products
(www.firetrace.co.uk)
Inventors have to be passionate about their ideas, or no invention would ever succeed. But passion brings dangers, one of which is to assume more commercial or IP potential than is actually there.
So we provide objectivity. We supply the specialist information we think you need, either to take your invention forward or to stop you getting too carried away.
We will never say: ‘Your idea is rubbish’. Most inventions are excellent ideas. It’s just that for good reasons they may struggle to make it as products. (Usually it’s too much prior art, or too little advantage over existing products.)
Nor will we say: ‘Your idea is brilliant’. If your invention has potential, we’ll say so – but it’s then even more important to survey the ground ahead, because no invention gets a clear run to success.
The line we prefer to take is: ‘If you want to go ahead with your invention, here are some facts you must take into consideration’. We offer advice to help good ideas make progress and overcome problems. Equally, we warn you if we think a particular hill isn’t worth climbing.
All decisions have to be yours, but we try to ensure that they’ll be fully informed decisions.
Other benefits
- For a modest outlay you could save a huge amount of wasted money
and effort. Every year inventors sink thousands of pounds into
ideas that will never earn them a penny. Don’t let that
be you.
- Forewarned is forearmed. No invention gets an easy ride. People
will try to pick holes in your idea, for both positive and negative
reasons. We tell you where we think those holes are, so you get
a chance to fix them.
- Even if an organisation does look at your idea, they may not
tell you what they really think, so the experience may leave you
no wiser. Our report gives you the honest, impartial feedback
you need.
- Many busy organisations will spend only a few minutes considering
an external invention before rejecting it. Including a positive
report from us can help capture their interest.
Can you trust us?
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To start the ball rolling
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Fill in and submit the online form for real. You’ll
first be asked to accept our Terms and Conditions. After
completing the form and clicking ‘Submit’,
you’ll be taken to the payment section. You can
either pay online or send a cheque.
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If relevant, send any attachments by separate email,
using the same email address and the
same name of idea as on the submission
form. (It doesn’t matter if there’s a time
lapse between Steps 2 and 3.)
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Once we have your completed submission form and confirmed payment,
we’ll send you an acknowledgement email. Your assessment then
becomes ‘live’ and we’ll report to you in due
course.
Prefer mail?
For submission by post (payment by cheque only), download
the printable version of the form and our Terms and Conditions.
After you’ve filled in the form, follow the instructions on
page 3.
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