Products and Services

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. Evolve from traditional complex month-long analysis projects to meaningful insights and actionable data today with CobaltIP.

  • Windowed Interface
  • Faceted Search
  • Patent Clustering
  • Many Charts and Reports

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.

  • API's
  • Hosted Solutions
  • Data Intergration
  • Custom Data and Analytics

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.

  • IP Analytics
  • White Space Consulting

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.

  • Ph.D.'s and Subject Matter Experts
  • Patentability opinions
  • Standard Searches