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 - a bargain, honestly - we’ll provide you
with a report in plain English that normally includes:
- An online patent search and commentary, including copies or
extracts of patents that we think are relevant to your idea. We
also explain our search methodology so you can check our findings
or search further yourself.
- An online search for similar and competing products and market
information. Again, we’ll include copies of key findings
and details of how we’ve searched.
- Our opinion of your idea’s commercial and intellectual
property (IP) potential.
- Comments on design and technical aspects of your idea.
- Our overall conclusion about the strengths and weaknesses of
your idea, and practical advice on what you might consider doing
next.
- Where appropriate, details of possible sources of further assistance.
It will be up to you to decide whether to contact them.
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)
In our experience, the most common reason why inventors don’t
get anywhere with their inventions is a lack of basic due
diligence. This requires inventors to do their level best
to remedy or at least identify weaknesses in their ideas before
presenting them to companies or funding bodies. And all inventions
have weaknesses of some kind - even those that go on to be great
products.
What does due diligence involve? To get some idea, look at the
questions in our Submission form.
Novelty and IP potential, market potential, threat from competition,
technical feasibility - these and other aspects must be addressed,
analysed and reported on.
In theory, inventors can do this for themselves. In practice, most
don’t have the experience to do it well, particularly when
it comes to patent searches. In any case, a self-assessment rarely
carries the same weight as an independent report.
The crunch for a ‘diligence free’ invention comes when
it’s presented to a company or funding body. Then one of two
things happens:
- The organisation does its own searches and finds serious flaws.
The findings may be over-pessimistic, but without evidence the
inventor can’t argue back.
- The organisation expects the inventor to present a case that
includes due diligence - but the inventor doesn’t.
Either way, most organisations will conclude that the inventor
can’t be taken seriously.
Our Standard Assessment provides you with the basic evidence you
need to (a) inform you more about your own idea and (b) help persuade
potential backers that you can be taken seriously.
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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must have Adobe Reader installed to view the printable version.
You can download it for free here.
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