IPSharks is built around one idea: patent search is a technical discipline, not a keyword exercise. Every search is led by an analyst with real domain grounding in the technology at hand.
We work as an extension of patent prosecution, litigation, and licensing teams — producing the search, charting, and landscape work that sits underneath a filing decision, an invalidity position, a clearance opinion, or a licensing strategy. Our engagements span telecom and wireless standards, medical devices, automotive and EV systems, and consumer electronics, with additional depth in software and fintech.
Rather than treating search as a single keyword pass, our analysts build a classification strategy first — CPC, IPC, and USPC codes mapped to the actual technical elements at issue — then layer targeted keyword and citation searching on top. The result is a search that a technical reviewer would recognize as thorough, not just a results list.
Every search begins with a CPC/IPC classification sweep before keywords are layered in, so coverage isn't dependent on guessing the right terms.
Searches are assigned to analysts with relevant technical backgrounds — not routed generically across the team.
Reports and claim charts are built to be used directly in prosecution responses, opinions, or filings — not reworked before they're usable.
A shorter list of genuinely relevant art is worth more than a long list of loosely related hits. We triage hard before we report.
Every report documents the classification codes, databases, and query logic used, so the search can be reviewed and defended.
Disclosures, claim sets, and product details are handled under NDA as standard practice, not an add-on request.
Our searches draw on USPTO, EPO/Espacenet, WIPO PATENTSCOPE, JPO, CNIPA, and commercial platforms including Derwent Innovation, Questal Orbit and Google Patents, alongside non-patent literature databases, to give a genuinely global view of the art.
Built our core practice around novelty and invalidity searching for patent prosecution and litigation teams.
Developed dedicated capability in SEP essentiality analysis and claim charting against 3GPP, IEEE, and AV1 standards.
Now serving clients across FTO, technology landscaping, and licensing strategy alongside our original search practice.