IPGuru helps you refine your idea into an invention, figure out how it could be built, and iterate until it is novel and feasible to patent. Then it helps you prepare submission-ready application documents.
Search prior art across an integrated database of 250 million patents, visualize how your invention could work, and assess its market and competitive landscape.
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A feeder that feeds the birds and quietly foils the squirrels.
The useful focus is not simply keeping squirrels out. It is the sensing, classification, and humane deterrence sequence that preserves safe access for birds.
ONE INVENTION, END TO END
A smart stovetop fire suppressor becomes a clearer system through the same evidence, imaging, and decision gates available for every project.
Clarify the problem, the idea, and the people it serves.
Inspect market context, competitors, and early prior art.
Use picture-first iteration to describe how the invention could work.
Test the draft against deeper evidence and a mock examination.
Prepare the application documents and filing package.
See the complete FORGE journey, its gates, starting points, and destinations.
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PATHS AND PEOPLE
A greenfield idea can begin as a problem you keep running into. A brownfield project can start with an existing product, process, material, website, image, or other project evidence.
Patent and trade-secret journeys run end to end today. Other paths begin with the same free validation and evidence base.
A GUIDED CREW
Nova keeps the conversation moving, Cora grounds discovery and prior art, and Kira supports the picture-first invention loop. A jurisdiction-tuned patent team joins when patent work begins.
Meet the crew and patent team or browse experts and virtuosos.
The scenarios above are illustrative of the people and outcomes the product is designed to support.
EVIDENCE, PRIVACY, AND LIMITS
Your project can bring together the materials you already have with research, visual exploration, and a clear record of what the evidence supports. It is built to make the next step understandable, not to hide the hard parts.
Read what IPGuru does and does not do and learn the patent basics in plain language.
See the closest prior art and the sources that inform a project view, instead of receiving an unexplained conclusion.
Use accepted concept images to clarify the physical description and the figures you may need later.
Bring a structured invention disclosure, research, figures, draft work, and an attorney binder to a professional review.
Move forward, reshape the idea, protect it differently, or decide not to continue with clearer evidence.
ANSWERS AND ACTION
Yes. Focus and Observe let you shape the idea, research its context, and get an early view before a paid phase unlocks.
FORGE is the five-phase method: Focus, Observe, Refine, Grade, and Execute, with a decision gate between each phase.
No. IPGuru helps you arrive with structured, substantive work rather than a blank page. A qualified attorney remains the right source of legal advice.
Depending on the phase, outputs can include an invention disclosure, research, concept figures, draft work, a plain-English reading, and an attorney binder.
Project materials and knowledge are private by default. Read the limits and handling commitments before you begin.
Read every frequently asked question.
Start with a private conversation about your idea, inspect the evidence, and decide what is worth doing next.
No credit card for the first validation phase. Pay only when you choose to unlock the next stage of a project.