Pricing
Read the five best picks free, or all of them with Pro
The free list gives you the five strongest picks each week. Pro opens up the whole list along with the research behind each pick, and Studio adds an early look at patents that are about to lapse.
Free
The five best picks each week, sent to you on Wednesdays.
$0
- A Wednesday email with the five best picks from the areas you follow
- Full write-ups for those five on the site
- A preview of what else made each week's list
- The archive of past free picks
Pro
Every pick in every area, with the research behind it.
$29 / month
- Every pick each week, usually 50 to 70 consumer products plus the other areas
- Demand checks with real listings and prices, plus manufacturing notes
- Filters for category, score and how easy a product is to make
- Search across every past write-up
- A CSV export of each week's list
- The top ten in each of your areas in the Wednesday email
Studio
For people who want to start research before a patent lapses.
$79 / month
- Everything in Pro
- The Lapsing Soon list of consumer patents in their final grace period, with deadlines
- Saved searches that email you the week a matching patent lapses
- The related-patent check on every pick
- The raw feed of every consumer-category lapse, whether or not it was scored
Questions
- How many picks are there each week?
- It depends on the batch. Roughly 3,800 US patents lapse each week, about 180 of those fall in consumer categories, and usually 50 to 70 of them survive our screening as real products a small company could make. The other areas, such as software or medical devices, add their own picks on top. Free readers get the top five; Pro members get all of them.
- Is a lapsed patent safe to copy?
- Not automatically. The patent itself has ended, although owners revive about 1.5% of lapsed patents, and a product can also be covered by related patents, design patents or trademarks. We flag the related patents we can find, but you should treat every pick as a lead and get a freedom-to-operate check before you invest in tooling.
- What does "Lapsing soon" show?
- It lists consumer-category patents whose owners have missed a maintenance fee and are now in the final six-month grace period. Many of those owners will pay late, but the ones who don't will appear in a weekly list a few months later, so Studio members can start their research early.
- Can I cancel?
- Yes, at any time from your account page, and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
- Do you offer refunds?
- If the first month isn't useful to you, email hello@freshoffpatent.com within 14 days and we'll refund it in full.