The Service is informational and built from public USPTO records. Reading it is free; an optional paid membership adds more. Please read these terms before using it.
1. The Service
137 Finder LLC, doing business as The Patent Finder ("we," "us," or "our"), publishes thepatentfinder.com (the "Service"). The Service computes and displays information about United States patents and the companies that hold them, from public United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) records.
Patent pages, company pages and computed expiration dates are free to read, and no account is required to look them up.
An optional Pro subscription adds an unlimited watchlist and change alerts within hours of publication, currently priced at $19 a month or $190 a year, billed through a third-party payment processor. A free account may watch up to three companies with a daily email digest. A Pro subscription may be canceled at any time; canceling stops the next billing cycle and does not refund the current one. Every patent page and company page reads the same with or without a subscription; a subscription adds complete lists past their first 10 rows, exports, unlimited watches and alerts.
A company may verify its own record for free, by confirming an email address at its own domain. Verifying adds a company-supplied description and links to that company's page, labeled and dated. It does not grant ownership of the underlying data and never changes a computed value.
2. Eligibility
You may use the Service only if you can form a legally binding contract with us, and only in compliance with this agreement and all applicable laws. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization to these terms.
3. Acceptable use
You may browse and use the Service for personal, professional, journalistic, research, and similar individual reference use. You agree not to:
- scrape, crawl, or bulk extract Service content by automated means beyond normal individual browsing;
- interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure;
- misrepresent your affiliation with a company shown on the Service; or
- attempt to circumvent the verification process for a company you do not represent.
Automated or bulk access is not permitted without our prior written consent. To ask for it, write to support@thepatentfinder.com.
4. Intellectual property
The selection, arrangement, and presentation of information on the Service, including our computed dates, confidence tiers, rankings, and the breakdown strings that explain them, is a compilation owned by 137 Finder LLC. The underlying patent records are public records of the United States government and are not owned by us.
"The Patent Finder" and its logo are trademarks of 137 Finder LLC. Other names shown on the Service, including company and product names, are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only, not to imply endorsement.
5. Disclaimers
The Service is informational only. Nothing on the Service is a freedom-to-operate opinion, a validity opinion, an infringement opinion, a patentability opinion, or legal advice of any kind, and nothing on the Service should be relied on as such.
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
Computed dates and statuses are estimates derived from public records, each shown with a stated confidence tier, and are provided for reference only. Verify against the primary source, such as USPTO Patent Center or USPTO Patent Assignment Search, before relying on any date or status shown here.
When a patent lapses for unpaid maintenance fees, the date we display is the end of the grace period, computed from the maintenance fee schedule. Where USPTO has recorded the patent as expired for non-payment on an earlier date, we display USPTO's recorded date instead and say so on the page. A later reinstatement on the record governs either way.
Where a terminal disclaimer is on record but its referenced document cannot be resolved, the affected date is shown uncapped, at reduced confidence, with a note. We do not guess a cap.
A company's own marking pages, where shown, are company-maintained and timestamped. We do not warrant that any marking page satisfies 35 U.S.C. §287 or any other legal marking requirement; the listed company and its counsel are responsible for that page's content and sufficiency.
Payment and subscription status never change this ranking, or any other computed value on this site. Company-supplied information is labeled and timestamped, and it is never an input here.
THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE, OR THAT ANY DATE, STATUS, OR OTHER COMPUTED VALUE IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
6. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, 137 Finder LLC AND ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION IT DISPLAYS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF FIFTY DOLLARS OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE.
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7. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold 137 Finder LLC harmless from any claim, loss, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your misuse of the Service or your violation of these terms.
8. Third-party links
The Service links to third-party sites, including company websites, USPTO systems, and other government resources. We do not control and are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of any third-party site. Linking to a site is not an endorsement of it.
9. Changes to the Service or these Terms
We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service, and we may revise these terms, at any time. A revised effective date will be posted with an updated version of this page. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect is acceptance of the revised terms.
10. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Before filing a claim against us, you agree to first contact us and attempt to resolve the dispute informally. Any dispute not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.
11. Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to support@thepatentfinder.com.