PatCheck – Organize Patents and Assess Risks with Ease

PatCheck is a patent tool for small businesses, developers, engineers, and inventors who need clarity instead of legal complexity.
It enables you to organize patent portfolios, understand protection status, and assess patent risks (Freedom to Operate) directly in your browser—without prior patent expertise.

No jargon. No training. Get started instantly.

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PatCheck start page showing patent overview and access to risk assessment features.
The PatCheck start page provides instant access to protection status, risk assessment and patent organization - directly in your browser

Who PatCheck Is For

PatCheck is built for small and medium-sized companies, developers, engineers, inventors, and executive assistants—anyone who works with patents but lacks the time for complex tools or legal terminology.

Instead of spreadsheets and overloaded interfaces, PatCheck delivers a clear, focused view of what matters: protection status, relevance to your product, and a structured overview of your patent portfolio.
PatCheck focuses exclusively on the information you need to get the job done.

🌍 Available in 9 languages
Titles and the user interface can be displayed in nine languages—ideal for international teams and cross-border patent work.

How PatCheck Works

Step 1 – Enter patent numbers

Add one or multiple patent numbers and assign them to projects or folders.

Step 2 – Get an instant overview

See protection status, countries, patents covering the same invention, remaining protection period, applicant, title, and abstract at a glance.

Step 3 – Assess patent risks

Run the guided FTO analysis and record relevant differences between the patent claims (legal scope of the patent) and your product.

Step 4 – Monitor changes and add notes

Enable monitoring to receive automatic alerts when the protection status of a patent or another patent covering the same invention changes.
Add notes directly to patents to capture insights and keep your documentation consistent over time.

👉 Start working with PatCheck

Key Strengths of PatCheck

Flexible organization in projects and folders

Project and folder structure used to organize patents in PatCheck
Organize patents in projects and folders—just like files on your computer, without Excel spreadsheets

Organize patents by product, customer, or technology. No Excel files, no clutter.

Simplified, color-coded protection status

Color-coded patent protection status indicators in PatCheck
Color-coded protection status shows instantly whether a patent is protected, pending, or no longer in force

Instantly see whether an invention is protected by a patent, applied for patent protection, no longer protected, or requires file inspection. Narrow results by country or protection status.

Protection scope for the same invention at a glance

Country-specific protection status for all patents covering the same invention
Country-level protection status displayed for all patents covering the same invention

View all patents for the same invention together and see where protection exists, including country-specific status and remaining term

One-click import and clear presentation

: Importing patents into PatCheck from a search result with one click
One-click import allows patents to be added directly from search results and supported patent databases into PatCheck

Import patents directly from search results or lists and review them in a clean, jargon-free interface.
With the PatCheck Extension installed, patents can also be imported with a single click from Espacenet, Google Patents, WIPO Patentscope, and USPTO PPUBS.

👉 Install the PatCheck Extension

Notes across patents covering the same invention

Patent notes displayed consistently across all patents covering the same invention
Notes assigned to individual patent numbers are automatically displayed across all documents for the same invention

Add comments directly to patents and keep documentation consistent across all patents covering the same invention.

Monitoring of protection status changes

Enable monitoring and receive automatic notifications when the protection status of a patent or another patent covering the same invention changes—reducing manual tracking effort.

👉 Open PatCheck to enable monitoring

Assess Patent Risks (Freedom to Operate)

PatCheck provides a guided and transparent Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis.
The process leads you step by step through the evaluation—without requiring legal interpretation skills.

You are guided through:

  • loading patent claims
  • identifying independent claims
  • breaking claims into technical features
  • assessing relevance to your product
  • documenting results and decisions

Each step is structured, traceable, and repeatable.

FTO Workflow

Step-by-step Freedom to Operate checklist in PatCheck
Structured Freedom to Operate workflow guiding users from claims analysis to a clear recommendation

Clear results and recommendations

At the end of the analysis, PatCheck provides a clear recommendation, for example:

“Patent is not critical. Ensure that all related patents of this invention are assessed in the relevant countries.”

This makes PatCheck an ideal pre-check before involving an attorney.

Test PatCheck for free and discover how easy it is to organize patents, understand protection status, and assess patent risks—even without patent expertise.

👉 Open PatCheck now
👉 Install the PatCheck Extension

No installation required. Works directly in your browser.