Novelty checks for your institution

Engineering colleges, incubators, TTOs and research departments sit on more inventions than any of them can afford to file blind. A novelty check reads an idea the way an examiner would, before the drafting money is spent: every feature scored against what is already published worldwide, Indian applications included, with the evidence quoted. This subscription puts that on your campus, with your institution's name on every report it produces.

The subscription

Rs 25,000 a quarter

That is Rs 50 a check if your people use all of them, against Rs 7,500 for a single check.

Five seats

Your admin decides who holds them, and can reassign them any time. A seat is a full account on the novelty desk.

included
500 checks a quarter, shared

A pool across your seats, counted on the page so everyone can see what remains. It refills every calendar quarter. An active department typically runs 50 to 100, so the wall is far away.

included
Your institution's name on every report

On the desk and on every exported report your people produce.

included
Fair use

No seat runs more than 10 checks in a day. That is not a limit anyone doing real work has met; it exists so one script or one assignment cannot empty the shared pool in a week.

10 a day per seat

Prefer one invoice a year? Rs 80,000 pays for four quarters, which prices each at Rs 20,000.

If a quarter runs out, or you need more

Extra seat

Up to ten seats in total. The pool stays shared.

Rs 4,000 a quarter
Extra 250 checks

Added to the current quarter's pool the day you ask.

Rs 5,000
Agent-verified report

A registered patent agent reads the machine's report against the documents and signs a short opinion on it. Per report, when you want a human on record.

Rs 2,500

Working alone, or a small practice?

The same desk, the same reports, sized for a professional. Patent agents, freelance searchers, law firms and consultancies run checks for clients; one client search billed at your own rate pays for a quarter of any of these. Projects on the desk keep each client's work apart.

Professional, for one person

One seat, 60 checks a quarter. Rs 100 a check. For a solo patent agent or a freelance searcher. Rs 19,000 paid yearly.

Rs 6,000 a quarter
Practice, for a small firm

Three seats, 150 checks a quarter to share. Rs 80 a check. For a law firm or consultancy. Rs 38,000 paid yearly.

Rs 12,000 a quarter
Institution, for a campus

The plan above: five seats, 500 checks a quarter, your institution's name on every report. Rs 50 a check. Rs 80,000 paid yearly.

Rs 25,000 a quarter

Every plan shares the same fair-use line, no seat past 10 checks in a day, and the same extra pack when a quarter runs out: 100 more checks for Rs 2,500 on Professional, 250 for Rs 5,000 on the others. Reports carry the ISERDIndia name on every plan; the search is ours, and we stand behind it under our own name.

What every check contains

The idea rewritten as a patent claim and numbered features, shown back for correction before anything is searched
The patent office's own vocabulary for the invention, because the document that blocks a filing rarely uses the inventor's words
The classes the invention points at, searched the way an examiner searches, alongside the text queries
Worldwide coverage through over 100 patent offices, with Indian applications searched through the European Patent Office's collection, which carries them in English
Research papers from the scholarly literature in the same report, because a published paper destroys novelty exactly as a patent does
Every feature scored against every document read, with the evidence quoted, never paraphrased
Front-page drawings, an Ask panel for follow-up questions, and exports to Excel, Word, CSV and print

What this is not, said plainly

It is a search, not a legal opinion. Indian applications are read from their titles and abstracts, because full Indian specifications are not yet machine-readable anywhere; the report says so wherever it applies. An absent result means "not in this index", never "the field is clear". Where a filing decision hangs on a document, that is a conversation with a registered patent agent, and we are happy to be that conversation.

Nothing your people type is published, indexed or shown to anyone else, and no description is used to train any AI model.

How it starts

Institutions are set up by us, not by a form, because your institution's name goes on the reports. Write from an institutional address with the name to appear on the reports and the email of the person who will administer the seats. Access is usually live the same day.

Only need one check?

Single novelty check, for an individual inventor

The same report, end to end: claim, vocabulary, classes, worldwide and Indian search, papers, feature scoring and exports. Write to us and we will set it up against your account.

Rs 7,500

Checking whether your idea is worth a check at all is free: search published patents yourself, or ask IPBuddy what the process looks like.