How the Check A Patent™ Service Works

My website intake form screens requests to check whether the Check A Patent™ service is a good fit for your situation. This service is designed for a person or organization that wants a written vulnerability analysis of an issued U.S. patent — to support evaluation, licensing, or defense — in a technology area I’m experienced in.

You do not need to own the patent to use this service. You provide the U.S. patent number at intake.

The intake form gathers contact info and the U.S. patent number, and gathers info I use to check for any conflict of interest.

I check for conflicts of interest based on the info you provided. I also confirm that the patent is in a technology area I am experienced in, and check my workload to confirm I can deliver your report within 8 business days of when work on it begins.

I send you an acceptance email. The email confirms the patent number I have on file from your intake and includes a payment link. The payment goes into the Ogilvie Law Firm Trust Account.

The email also informs you that an engagement agreement will be coming to you in a separate email from the DocuSign site.

After the engagement letter is signed and the payment is made, I will begin work on your project. That’s when the 8 business day delivery clock starts.

I use proprietary AI technology to generate a rough draft of your Check A Patent™ Vulnerability Analysis Report. The rough draft is my internal privileged work product, not the deliverable.

I revise the rough draft, using my 30+ years of experience as a patent attorney (including prosecution, litigation, and transactional experience), my knowledge of how AI works — what it is good at and what it is not good at — and my knowledge of the relevant technology area(s). My review focuses on exploitation: what is actually exploitable about each vulnerability, and why.

When I am satisfied with the revised Check A Patent™ Vulnerability Analysis Report, I email it to you. That final report is your deliverable. It identifies exploitable vulnerabilities found in the patent. At that point, the fee is earned and the payment will be transferred from the Trust Account to the Operating Account. If you cancel before I send you the report, the full amount will be refunded, minus payment processor transaction fees. If a conflict or technology gap arises during the work, I will withdraw and send you a refund, minus payment processor transaction fees.

The delivery email includes a Calendly link for an optional 30-minute follow-up meeting to discuss the findings. The meeting is optional — it is not a required part of the service. The Calendly link is open for 60 days from delivery. The meeting does not extend or reopen the scope of the engagement beyond clarification of the report as delivered.