Someone may already owe you money.
Competitors ship products without checking whose patents they’re using. Willful infringers can owe enhanced damages plus attorneys’ fees — or they can become paying licensees. Infringement Detective finds likely unlicensed use, ranks the targets by what they’re worth, and builds the record you need before you approach anyone. The scan is free.
The scan is the free first step of Infringement Detective: you tell us what you own; we report who appears to be using it.
Amazon Echo Show (Visual ID) — public sources describe the product doing each item on the claim’s checklist.
One requirement still needs a teardown to confirm. We name the test and what it costs.
Who Would Pay for Your Technology?
We can name your potential licensees — whether your technology is patented or not.
In an extraordinary use of our technology, we identify the companies with the products, the markets, and the motive to license what you've built — patented, patent-pending, or held as know-how. If it isn't patented, your secret stays a secret: everything you share is covered by written confidentiality terms before you share it.
Talk to us →If you have a law firm, we can work with them. If you need one, we can refer a few to choose from.
Two things no one does better. One engine behind both.
Prior art & invalidity
No one is better at finding the one piece of prior art that invalidates a patent as not novel than Inventiply. But we are even better at the complexities of combining multiple prior art references to invalidate a patent as obvious. And because patents are a multi-billion-dollar business, and patent litigation costs millions per client, we can help you preserve billions in company value, save billions in damages, and cut tens of millions in litigation.
When your counsel retains Inventiply directly — even if you pay — attorney-client privilege and work-product protection remain at maximum strength. And fees can be structured against results.
CASE STUDY: Our proprietary systems find the intel no one else can.→
A company was sued by a competitor asserting several patents. Its defense already included lawyers from two of the largest patent-litigation firms in the country — and none had an argument against the patents themselves. Inventiply went to work on a Friday. By Monday morning we delivered the combination of evidence and creative argument to support a motion for summary judgment: the key patent had been obtained through inequitable conduct — misconduct before the Patent Office that, once proven, means the patent cannot be enforced at all.
Details withheld to protect client confidentiality; substantiation available to interested parties. Past results do not predict outcomes. Formal legal work is performed by your counsel or DeepLaw LLP.
We find who appears to be using your invention, what it is worth, and whether it would survive a fight — so you can decide to sue, license, or do nothing before you spend on any of them.
Start a free infringement scan →Co-invention & broadening
And when the answer is that the asset needs to be stronger, we do the strengthening: co-inventing variants and embodiments with you until the claim space is harder to design around and worth more to a buyer. Led by Gary Shuster, named inventor on more than 262 patents.
Co-invention, brokering & portfolio strategy →Start with a report, not a guess.
Most IP decisions are made on hope. You file because someone said you should, or you pass on an asset because diligence felt too expensive. A report replaces the guess with a read you can act on.
The engines do the searching; the method they follow was designed — and is curated — by people who have invented, litigated, and raised capital. The report arrives in plain English — written for experts in things other than IP — and it marks what is not yet proven, because intelligence you can act on has to tell you its own confidence. One analysis engine, three starting points: inventing, owning, or buying.
The free report tells you whether deeper work is justified. If it isn’t, we say that too.
| Who appears to be using it? | Strongest matches: Amazon Echo Show (Visual ID) and Google Nest Hub Max (Face Match). A second group: commercial-PC walk-away presence, Apple attention-aware / Face ID, smart-TV face switching, Sony BRAVIA CAM, and Amazon Astro. |
| What might the possibly infringing uses be worth, if confirmed? | Three independent analyses give most-likely figures of $11.3M, $32M, and $88M, with floors near $1.9M and ceilings up to ~$340M. A defensible middle estimate sits in the low-to-mid tens of millions. |
The report ladder
Six tiers. One path from a free read to an execution-ready plan.
You start where your situation fits and stop when you have what you need. Each tier answers a more specific question than the one below it. Upgrade only if the findings of the free report justify it. Full detail and pricing are on the Report Tiers page.
Free
Proceed or Pause Review
ADDS: THE HONEST READ — PROCEED OR PAUSE
The free entry point. It answers one question: is deeper work worth it? An honest first read — early signals on your invention’s leverage, how crowded the field looks, and whether the idea opens into something bigger — and a plain answer on whether spending more is justified. It is not a prior-art or invalidity search; it tells you whether one is worth buying. No cost. No call required.
Tier 2
Competitive Risk & Opportunity Review
ADDS: ONE NAMED RISK OR OPPORTUNITY
Identifies one concrete finding that changes your next decision. A specific risk — such as prior art that limits your claims — or a specific opportunity, such as a broadening path or a use case worth filing on. Not a general overview; a named result you can act on.
Tier 3
Value, Enforcement, and Diligence Preview
ADDS: VALUATION BAND + FIRST NAMED TARGETS
The standard investor-ready report. Estimates what the IP could be worth depending on how you use it — sale, licensing deals, enforcement, or keeping competitors out. Also identifies who may already be using your patent without authorization, and shows how the IP would hold up under formal investor or buyer scrutiny.
Tier 4
Diligence and Decision Review
ADDS: CLAIM CHARTS + RANKED TARGET LIST
The go-or-no-go report for deals. Adds detailed claim-by-claim analysis, a ranked list of companies likely using your IP without a license, and a gap analysis identifying the questions a litigator, challenger, or skeptical investor would ask. Tells you exactly what the IP can support before you commit to a deal.
Tier 5
Action Plan and Monetization Map
ADDS: THE ACTION PLAN — WHOM, IN WHAT ORDER, WHAT TO SAY
Combines deal-level analysis with a specific plan: which companies to approach, in what order, with what opening offer, and how to structure a licensing or enforcement campaign from first contact to close.
Tier 6
Master Monetization File
ADDS: THE COMPLETE FILE A CAMPAIGN RUNS ON
The complete file from which a licensing or enforcement campaign is run. A full portfolio map, a prioritized list of targets with supporting evidence, and a record structured to hand directly to counsel or a licensing team. Scoped to your portfolio and market. Contact us to discuss.
Read the whole sample. Then decide.
Our sample is built from a famous public patent family — twelve Google patents that taught screens to recognize your face. No confidentiality screen, no blacked-out pages, no cherry-picked excerpt. The status table, the claim charts, the valuation band, the proof-gap analysis: all of it, end to end. If the thinking doesn’t earn your trust, keep your money.
See a sample report (Google patent) →Your idea stays yours.
Confidential from the first sentence: the description you type at step one is covered the moment you send it, and technical detail is accepted only under written confidentiality terms you approve before you share it. The AI providers in our pipeline work under confidentiality obligations. We keep what we need to do the work and support it — nothing more — and we never publish client submissions or client reports. Our public samples are built from famous public patents.
Your step-one description is covered before you ever see a checkbox.
An express confidentiality agreement you accept before sharing — read it first. →
Every provider in the pipeline is bound to use your information only to serve you.
Client work never becomes marketing. The samples you see are built from public patents.
Who we serve
Who we serve
Inventors & Founders
Including those with only a provisional or an idea. You want clarity, protectable leverage, and a story investors believe.
Patent Owners
Issued patents, dormant portfolios, licensing questions, enforcement questions, or assets you’re considering selling.
CTOs & Product Leaders
You want upstream lift: better disclosures, smarter breadth, and portfolio strategy that maps to product and revenue.
In-House Counsel
Better disclosures, stronger portfolio strategy, and reporting that makes your work with outside counsel more defensible.
Outside Counsel
You draft what you’re handed. We make what you’re handed broader and more defensible — so drafting gets easier and outcomes improve.
Investors & Acquirers
You need portfolio companies to show real moats, not vanity patents. Diligence-ready stories backed by evidence.
Why Inventiply
We make patent value plain.
Most IP services do one thing. Search firms find what already exists. Law firms draft what they are handed. AI tools generate ideas — many of which cannot be protected. Inventiply combines AI speed with inventor-grade judgment and litigation-informed strategy, and puts the result in a report you can act on — and hand to your board, your buyer, or your lawyer.
The team is led by Gary Shuster, named inventor on more than 262 patents, and Cameron Powell, who has helped founders raise over $1 billion. Our sister firm DeepLaw LLP handles formal legal work — opinions, enforcement, litigation, copyrights, and trademarks — when a client needs it; when you already have counsel, our reports equip them. And when you want more than a report — co-invention, portfolio strategy, brokering — the same people who write the reports do the work. Co-invention, brokering & portfolio strategy →
How Inventiply Compares
IP services are fragmented — each just one piece of the puzzle. Inventiply integrates an entire solution.
Scores tell you what a model thinks. Tools make professionals faster. We deliver the file — what you have, what it’s worth, who’s using it, and what to do next, with the evidence attached.
| Category | What They Do | Where They Break | Typical Pricing | What Inventiply Does Instead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invention Promotion | Help submit ideas, build prototypes, seek licensing | Don't evaluate true value, defensibility, or monetization strategy | $2–$20K packages | We evaluate, co-invent, expand, and strengthen the invention and its leverage before anything is filed |
| Patent Law Firms | Draft and prosecute patents based on client disclosures | Draft what they're given; narrow claims; limited invention expansion | $10K–$25K+ per patent | We expand what should be drafted so filings become defensible, valuable assets |
| Innovation Consulting | Generate ideas and innovation processes | Ideas divorced from protection = less valuable ideas | $50K–$500K+ engagements | We turn ideas into protected, defensible, revenue-generating IP |
| IP Monetization | Value and monetize existing patent portfolios | Assume valuable IP already exists; don't create or expand it | $50K–$500K+ enterprise | We build portfolios worth monetizing from the start |
| DIY / AI Tools | Provide information or automated outputs | No strategic judgment; often produce non-protectable outputs | Free–$500 | We combine AI speed with inventor-grade judgment and litigation-informed strategy |
| Instant AI Screeners & Scores | Ten-minute automated analyses, uniqueness verdicts, and FTO-style scores generated from a pitch deck or an abstract | A verdict without evidence you can act on — no named targets, no valuation you can defend, no path to the money. And marketing their own fine print contradicts. | Demo-gated subscriptions | Evidence over verdicts: named targets, claim charts, a valuation band — confidential under written terms that say what the marketing says. How we compare → |
Every conclusion in our reports shows its evidence and its reasoning — testable, checkable, cited — so you and your experts can draw your own conclusions from the same file we did.
Common questions
Questions
No. Inventiply reports are informational and strategic — they tell you what you have, what it may be worth, and what the findings support doing next. They are not legal opinions, they are not individually reviewed by an attorney unless the deliverable says so, and they do not create an attorney–client relationship or privilege. Where formal legal work is required — an opinion, a filing, enforcement, litigation — that is a separate engagement through DeepLaw LLP or counsel of your choosing.
No. Our co-founders — Gary Shuster, inventor and patent litigator named on 262+ patents, and Cameron Powell, entrepreneur and lawyer — designed and curate the systems that produce every report. AI does the searching at a scale no human team can match; the method it follows is human work. The public sample’s summary page is stamped HUMAN-CURATED because the founders designed — and continuously correct — the method that produced it.
We hold no stake in the outcome — no contingency, no commission on a sale. We get no bigger fee for a bigger number. We’re not paid to produce a smaller number. The report has no reason to inflate, and we’ll identify what is unknown, still unproven, or risky. Whether we say a portfolio is weak or strong, you can rely on it as an unbiased judgment.
A score tells you what a model concluded. It cannot show you why, and you cannot defend it — to an investor, a board, or yourself. Our reports show the work: named targets with cited public evidence, valuation as a band with its assumptions stated, and the proof gaps marked. Read the full comparison, then read our complete sample and ask any scoring tool for theirs. How we compare →
Good — those platforms make IP professionals faster, and if your counsel uses one, you benefit. But they are software your lawyer operates, priced for law firms. Inventiply delivers the finished file: analysis you can read yourself, in plain English, before you spend on professional hours — so that when you do engage counsel, every hour counts.
We do. No one finds infringements better — and no one is better at finding the patents that, once purchased, can bolster a patent portfolio before suit.
Nothing. You give us a description of your invention or a patent number, and an email address to send the report to. That is all. The free report is a real deliverable, not a teaser or a trial. There is nothing to buy to receive it.
Most free reports are ready within a few business days. If your description is minimal or the patent number is unusual, we may reach out to ask one clarifying question before we run the analysis. You will hear from us either way.
Nothing automatic. The report tells you whether deeper work is justified. If it is, the paid tiers add the analysis that changes decisions: named targets, claim charts, valuation by route, and a monetization plan. If the free report says you do not need more, we will say so. There is no pressure to upgrade.
Yes — from the first sentence you type. Your step-one description is treated as confidential from the moment you send it, and the step-two form opens with our Submission Confidentiality Terms — an express confidentiality agreement you accept before sharing technical detail. Submitting to us is not a public disclosure of your invention. We would rather work with something imperfect under those terms than have you over-share in public.
It stays yours, and it stays confidential. Your description is covered from the moment you send it; technical detail is accepted only under our Submission Confidentiality Terms; the AI providers in our pipeline process it under confidentiality obligations; and we never publish client submissions or client reports. Our public samples are built from famous public patents — never from client work.
A patent attorney drafts and prosecutes the application you bring them. Inventiply works before and around that step: we tell you whether the idea is worth filing, how to broaden it before you file, what competitors are doing, and whether the portfolio you already have can generate revenue. Where formal legal work is required, we route to DeepLaw or qualified counsel. We are not a substitute for a patent attorney — we tell you what to ask one, and whether it is worth it.
Yes. You enter where your situation fits. Tier 4 and above typically begin with a short scoping conversation so the report fits your portfolio and the specific decision in front of you. You can also use the free report first and credit its findings toward a paid tier when you upgrade within 90 days.
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The free report takes a few business days. We just need a description of your idea, or a patent or application number. If the findings justify going deeper, you will know exactly what the next step is. If they don’t, you will know that too — and you will have saved the cost of finding out the hard way.
Inventiply reports are decision-support analysis, not legal advice or legal opinions. Formal legal work is performed by DeepLaw LLP or your own counsel.