Patent & Trademark Infringement Detection: Find the Money You’re Leaving on the Table

Most companies leave money on the table without knowing it. Competitors may be shipping your protected features. Someone’s copying your text and images. Counterfeiters are profiting from your ideas. Did you know willful infringers may owe you triple damages plus attorneys’ fees — or that you can turn them into paying licensees?

Infringement Detective is a proprietary system developed by Inventiply that identifies likely unlicensed uses of your valuable IP: patent infringement, trademark misuse, counterfeits, and copyright infringement.

How It Works

We map and rank infringements of your IP and build a record. You approach infringers confident in your position. You may choose to begin with a licensing offer, or you may know the infringer has been at it long enough that you want to come out demanding triple damages and attorneys’ fees.

If escalation is required, formal legal work is routed through DeepLaw. But the point is not to sprint to conflict. The point is to build leverage that survives scrutiny.

Gary Shuster — On Why Outsiders Find Infringement Better Than Inventors: “Early in my invention career, I learned I could find infringement of other inventors’ patents much more easily than they could. The inventor goes into an infringement search with the entire history of the invention, which turns the effort into an exercise in confirmation bias. For example, if I invent a composite substance that keeps helium from escaping through balloon walls, I’ll look for balloon-like things — maybe tires. But a non-inventor reads the claim and thinks: ‘Where do people need to limit the escape of small atoms?’ Medical devices. Rocket booster seals. Wearable tech. We automate much of this process with AI, guided by human insight across domains.”

Gary Shuster — On Infringement Serving Multiple Purposes: “Infringement detection serves several purposes: (1) it finds prior art that could invalidate patents — which you need to know about; (2) it finds parallel technologies that can give rise to investment, acquisitions, or cross-licensing; (3) it finds infringers that can be sued or licensed. But caution is needed if the infringer released their product too close in time to yours.”

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