Berkeley FIT
Berkeley Fit
Patentability, novelty & freedom-to-operate

How strong is your patent? Can you practice it freely?

Both questions answered against millions of prior-art references and commercial products.

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Portfolio decisions10 assessed
Decision-ready5
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The decision it owns

Two questions gate every IP move.

Is it patentable, and can we ship it without infringing someone else's claims. Most workflows answer them separately, weeks apart, at different desks.

A Patent Assessment answers both from one knowledge graph — evaluating the invention the way an examiner and an FTO attorney would. Novelty, non-obviousness, eligibility, and enablement under the statutory tests, plus a freedom-to-operate scan against the patents that could block you and the products already on the market.

Start from a granted patent, a published provisional, or an unpublished invention disclosure. Either way you get a verdict with risk levels and next actions.

What's inside

Six deliverables, every assessment.

Patentability analysis

Novelty, obviousness, eligibility, and enablement against the statutory tests.

Freedom-to-operate assessment

Blocking-patent analysis, jurisdictional exposure, and an integrated risk profile.

Per-patent clearance table

Every relevant patent with legal status, clearance tier, and expiry.

Prior-art landscape

Closest references, distinctive elements, and any teaching-away.

Summary of the invention

Problem, mechanism, measurable improvement, essential inventive features.

Commercial context

The products already practicing in this space and the market the invention addresses.

How it works

Intake to verdict.

Intake

Start from a granted patent, a published provisional, or an unpublished disclosure, captured as its inventive concept and features.

Pull the prior art

Surface the closest references and every potentially blocking patent in the field.

Test it

Assess novelty (§102), obviousness (§103), eligibility (§101), and enablement (§112).

Clear it

Score each blocking patent clear, caution, or risky, with the specific claims at issue.

Verdict

An integrated risk profile, evidence gaps, and concrete recommendations.

What it reads against

Every finding traces to something in the Orchestrator Knowledge Graph — a granted patent, a published application, a scientific publication, or a marketed product resolved to the company behind it.

34.2M
Patents & applications
547K+
Products catalogued
84M
Scientific publications
165K+
Companies profiled
Where it sits

Patent Assessment is the full read.

A repeatable screen that de-risks a filing or a product launch before formal counsel — informational, and built to complement a legal opinion, not replace it.

Where the inventions come from

Inventions triaged by DisclosurePlus pass here when they warrant full validity and freedom-to-operate work.

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When one invention isn't the question

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Confidentiality

Your unpublished inventions stay unpublished.

We never train our model on what you submit. We never share it between customers. You retain all rights, and you may delete your submissions on demand.

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Put one invention through the full read.

Patentability and freedom-to-operate from one knowledge graph, with every finding cited.

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