Professional Search and Communities

FPO is home to the world's most popular patent search engine – a fast, easy-to-use, and reliable service used by 100's of millions world-wide since 2004. FPO is the crown jewel in the SumoBrain Solutions (SBS) ecosystem of web properties and professional services. SBS has pioneered the democratization of "big data" and has built a powerful portfolio of tools and expertise to help organizations navigate intellectual property information (and other data), as well as advanced analytics and solutions integration.

Services & Benefits

Communities

Communicate with the IP community and learn more using our networking features. Stay informed with blogs, discussions, and topical information you can directly interact with. Join one of the existing groups and start learning, teaching, or sharing ideas and information about any topic immediately. Start participating with your peers or other like-minded individuals. Subscribe to a particular topic and stay informed on the latest activity.

CobaltIP

Existing commercial software is too hard to learn, too expensive, too slow and most of all, too difficult to get to meaningful decision-making information that makes money. Cobalt is a web application, but it feels like an operating system similar to Windows or Max OSX—an innovation that, by itself, obsoletes existing patent research software. Evolve from traditional complex month-long analysis projects to meaningful insights and actionable data today with CobaltIP.

Catalyst

SBS’s Catalyst is a uniquely powerful engine that drives all of the incredible capabilities of our sites and services, including our custom API, our web sites, our commercial solutions such as CobaltIP, and allows us to deliver and interact with information in profoundly new ways – fast. Catalyst provides full data management functions from aggregation, extraction, processing (and normalizing), and text analysis for optimal indexing.

IP Consulting

In conjunction to our extensive patent, data, and search capabilities/tools, we offer consultative services to help corporations, institutions, law firms, or even individual inventors/analysts gain deep insights into the particular IP challenge or opportunity that confronts them. Understanding an idea or concept, a patent, a portfolio of patents, or the landscape of 100’s or even 1,000’s of patents and how to organize and prioritize this in IP and economic terms can be daunting.

Patent Searching

The staff at FreePatentsOnline lives and breathes patents. We've spent the last six years building and enhancing a patent search engine (FreePatentsOnline), a patent analytics platform (CobaltIP), and providing patent-related services. As a result of our direct involvement in building patent search solutions, we understand the nuances of patent data, the search strategies, and the limitations inherent in search technology.