PatPro, Inc. was founded by former patent examiners in 1989

During the course of its nearly twenty year history, PatPro has become one of the premier search firms in the United States with over 30,000 searches. With a well established reputation for excellence in the Intellectual Property community, PatPro works closely with top law firms and corporations in our diverse areas of expertise. PatPro is located in close proximity to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, VA. We have access to patent examiners and all of the USPTO’S archives and records.

PatPro provides a full range of patent search and document retrieval services in all technical disciplines

Technical Disciplines

Accelerated Examination Searches

PatPro, has in the short time since the introduction of the Accelerated Examination Support Document (AESD) Process become a leader in Accelerated Examination (AE) Searching. In less than a year, we have performed over 100 AE searches and have accumulated the knowledge and experience to generate a search report that consistently meets all the requirements of the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO).

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For more information on AESD, please go to:
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Search Reports

Each search is accompanied by a search report that may be customized to your specification. Our standard detailed report includes a concise description of the search scope, identification of the field of search for manual searching, identification of databases accessed and search parameters or queries used for automated searching, identification of Examiner's consulted (where applicable), a listing and a copy of each reference found, and a discussion of the references found.

Patent Copies, File Histories, Document Services, PTO Services

Patent Services

Patent Watch Services

PatPro Routinely performs patent watch services to identify newly issued patents (on a weekly, monthly or other periodic basis) that meet your watch criteria. Among other options, we can set up patent watch services based on: