Flat Fee · Limited Scope · Personally Provided by John Ogilvie
Patent Analysis Services
Written analysis services for patents and patent applications — structural vulnerability analysis, AI-use implication analysis, negotiation strategy, adversarial strategy. Governed by limited-scope engagement agreements.
The Services
Three Ways to Analyze a Patent
Choose the analysis that fits your situation. All three are flat fee, limited scope, and personally provided by Patent Attorney John Ogilvie.
Structural Vulnerability Report
Check A Patent™
Patent Structural Vulnerability Analysis
You provide a U.S. patent number. John Ogilvie reviews the patent and returns a written analysis of exploitable vulnerabilities — gaps in claim scope, enablement weaknesses, claim construction risk, indefiniteness, and other structural weaknesses detectable from the patent itself — so you can use that analysis to evaluate the patent, support a licensing position, or prepare a defense.
Not a prior art search, freedom-to-operate opinion, or validity opinion. Structural vulnerability analysis based on the patent document itself.
AI-Use Vulnerability Report
Check A Pursuit™
AI-Use Implication Analysis
You provide a patent, application, or prosecution document. John Ogilvie analyzes the document for AI-use indicia and returns a written report with discovery or due diligence request guidance, describing force-choice traps and negotiation bargaining strategies, tailored to your proceeding type.
Not a prior art search, structural vulnerability analysis, or validity opinion. AI-use implication analysis supporting litigation discovery or negotiation strategy.
Combined Patent Analysis — Save $1,000
Check Both™
Structural and AI-Use Vulnerability Analysis
Check A Patent™ and Check A Pursuit™ run together on the same patent, delivered as two reports under one engagement letter. One conflicts check, one engagement, one payment — two analyses.
Includes both the structural vulnerability analysis and the AI-use implication analysis. Same scope limitations apply to each component. Two reports; one optional 30-minute follow-up covering both.
Who This Is For
Situations Where These Services Are Useful
Accused Infringer
You Received a Demand Letter
Understand the structural weaknesses in the asserted patent and any AI-use vulnerabilities in the prosecution record before deciding whether to license, challenge, or defend.
Potential Acquirer or Licensee
You Are Evaluating a Patent
Know the exploitable structural vulnerabilities and AI-use vulnerabilities in a patent you are considering acquiring, licensing, or investing in before you commit.
Patent Owner
You Are Preparing to Assert
Understand the weaknesses in your own patent — structural and AI-use — before licensing negotiations or litigation, so you know what a sophisticated adversary will find.
Litigant or IPR Petitioner
You Are Building a Challenge
Identify AI-use implications in a patent application or prosecution document to support discovery strategy, deposition framing, and negotiation leverage in an active proceeding.
Inventor or Applicant
You Are About to Be Subpoenaed
Assess AI-use implications in your own pending application or patent before getting a subpoena — understand what a litigation adversary would find and what to do before you’re grilled about them.
Attorney or Agent
You Are Advising a Client
Commission a written analysis to inform your client’s strategy — structural vulnerabilities, AI-use exposure, or both — under a limited-scope engagement that runs to your client.
Before You Buy
Key Terms of Each Engagement
These are the most important limitations of each service. Full terms are in the engagement agreement you will receive via DocuSign after a conflict of interest check. By clicking BUY you confirm you have read and understood these terms.
Check A Patent™ Vulnerability Analysis
- The report is a structural vulnerability analysis based on the patent document itself — not a prior art search, not a freedom-to-operate opinion, and not a patentability or validity opinion.
- The report does not include prosecution history analysis. It identifies vulnerabilities detectable from the patent document.
- Issued patents cannot be routinely amended. Findings are oriented toward exploitation, evaluation, and defense — not remediation.
- The vulnerability list identifies exploitable weaknesses found. It is not a guarantee that no other vulnerabilities exist.
- This service does not include freedom-to-operate analysis, claim charting, or infringement analysis.
- After delivery, an optional 30-minute follow-up meeting is available via Calendly within a 60-day scheduling window.
- Mark all emails to John Ogilvie “PRIVILEGED” to preserve attorney-client privilege.
- You are responsible for all legal deadlines — Ogilvie Law Firm does not determine or monitor deadlines.
Check A Pursuit™ AI-Use Implication Analysis
- The report identifies indicia of AI use in the submitted document and provides adversarial strategy guidance — it is not a prior art search, structural vulnerability analysis, validity opinion, or infringement analysis.
- The report does not cover 35 U.S.C. §§ 102/103 (prior art). It addresses conduct-based vulnerabilities arising from AI use.
- The 10 business day delivery clock starts only after all three are received: signed engagement letter, $4,500 payment, and confirmed document.
- Findings are framed for discovery, negotiation, and advisory use. Drafting discovery is a separate engagement.
- After delivery, an optional 30-minute follow-up meeting is available via Calendly within a 60-day scheduling window.
- Mark all emails to John Ogilvie “PRIVILEGED” to preserve attorney-client privilege.
- You are responsible for all legal deadlines — Ogilvie Law Firm does not determine or monitor deadlines.
Check Both™ Combined Analysis
- Includes one Check A Patent™ Vulnerability Analysis and one Check A Pursuit™ AI-Use Implication Analysis on the same patent. Scope limitations of each component apply separately.
- The 15 business day delivery clock starts only after all three are received: signed engagement letter, $6,000 payment, and patent identification confirmed.
- Either report may be delivered before the other. The fee is earned in two parts: $2,000 on delivery of the Check A Patent™ report; $4,000 on delivery of the Check A Pursuit™ report.
- One optional 30-minute follow-up meeting covers both reports. The Calendly link opens on delivery of the second report, with a 60-day scheduling window.
- Mark all emails to John Ogilvie “PRIVILEGED” to preserve attorney-client privilege.
- You are responsible for all legal deadlines — Ogilvie Law Firm does not determine or monitor deadlines.
Every Engagement
What Every Engagement Includes
Personal Review
No Outsourcing
John Ogilvie personally reviews every submission. No outsourcing to associates or third parties.
AI-Assisted Workflow
Responsible AI Use
John Ogilvie uses proprietary AI-assisted analysis workflows. Intermediate results are privileged attorney work product.
Strategy-Oriented
Actionable Analysis
Findings are framed for exploitation, evaluation, defense, or adversarial strategy — not remediation. The report tells you what is actionable and why.
Limited Scope
Defined Engagement
Each engagement is governed by a limited-scope agreement. Scope is defined up front. Full-service representation is available for matters outside scope.
Check A Patent™ Vulnerability Categories
What the Vulnerability Analysis Looks For
The Check A Patent™ analysis evaluates the submitted patent across multiple structural vulnerability categories, using a proprietary Vulnerability Assessment Table developed and maintained by Attorney Ogilvie. Categories include:
- Claim scope and construction vulnerabilities
- Indefiniteness and claim language ambiguity
- Enablement and written description weaknesses
- Means-plus-function claim risks
- Abstract idea and patent eligibility exposure
- Dependent claim architecture and fallback position gaps
- Specification-to-claim misalignment
- Drawing deficiencies and support gaps
- Priority claim and incorporation-by-reference issues
- Divided infringement vulnerability in method claims
- Fee structure and claim count issues
- Object-of-the-invention and result-guarantee language
Check A Pursuit™ AI-Use Vulnerability Categories
What the AI-Use Analysis Looks For
The Check A Pursuit™ analysis examines the submitted document — and, where available, its prosecution history — for indicia of AI use and the exploitable vulnerabilities that AI use tends to create, using a proprietary AI-use assessment framework developed and maintained by Attorney Ogilvie. Unlike a structural analysis, these vulnerabilities arise from conduct: they are baked into the historical record and are not cured by amending claims. Categories include:
- Indicia of AI use in the provisional application
- Indicia of AI use in the non-provisional application
- Indicia of AI use in office action responses and remarks
- Inventorship integrity — natural-person conception versus AI contribution
- Duty-of-candor and inequitable-conduct exposure from undisclosed AI use
- AI-fabricated or mis-cited authority in prosecution papers
- Disclosure the inventor cannot substantiate — AI-introduced embodiments and examples
- Pre-filing public-disclosure exposure through third-party AI tools
- Inventor declaration and oath integrity where AI performed substantial drafting
- Cross-document inconsistencies usable as admissions
- Privilege exposure and discoverability of AI-tool transcripts
- Discovery targets, force-choice traps, and negotiation-leverage mapping
Not In Scope — Either Service
- Prior art search or novelty analysis
- Freedom-to-operate analysis
- Infringement claim charting
- Ownership and chain of title
- Foreign prosecution analysis
- Drafting discovery
- Litigation representation
For a full-scope validity or infringement opinion, full-service representation is appropriate. See full-service options →
Ogilvie Law Firm — Full Service
Need More Than a Written Analysis?
If your situation requires a full validity opinion, freedom-to-operate analysis, claim charting, litigation support, or negotiation representation, full-service patent representation may be the right choice. John Ogilvie offers full-service patent work, drawing on his extensive experience.