Know if your idea is unique.In 10 minutes.
Paseo scans prior art consisting of 220 million patents and journal articles, then delivers a full novelty, obviousness, and competitive landscape report before your coffee gets cold. No more waiting weeks. No more $15K “preliminary” searches.
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From idea description to full report
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The bottleneck nobody talks about
Every R&D team and every patent attorney knows the drill. You have a promising idea. Before you can move forward, someone has to figure out whether it's actually new.
That means a prior art search. Which means weeks of waiting, thousands of dollars in fees, and a report that still might miss something buried in a foreign patent filing from 2014.
Meanwhile, your competitors are filing. Your budget is burning. And your team is stuck waiting on an answer to one simple question: “Has someone already done this?”
Paseo answers that question in about 10 minutes. Not with a shortcut or a surface-level keyword search, but with a full 360-degree analysis across 220 million patents and journal articles, covering novelty, obviousness, competitive landscape, feasibility, and 12 other dimensions.
It won't replace your patent attorney. But it will give your team the intelligence they need to make faster, smarter decisions about what to file, what to shelve, and where the white space actually is.
Three steps. One report. Ten minutes.
Describe your idea
Type a plain-language description of your invention. No special format needed. Paseo's NLP engine extracts the key features, concepts, and problems your idea addresses, then shows them to you for review. If something's missing, you edit and rerun.
Paseo runs the analysis
Paseo compares your idea against 220M+ patents and journal articles across 16 dimensions: feasibility, novelty, single and multi-feature obviousness, competitive landscape, CPC classification, geographic market fit, and more. The whole process takes about 10 minutes.
Read your report and act
You get a structured report with direct links to relevant prior art, a similarity-ranked patent landscape, draft claims to bring to your attorney, white-space maps showing where you can innovate, and a final uniqueness verdict. Download it as a PDF or export the underlying data.
What Paseo actually analyzes
Is your idea viable?
Feasibility Check
Flags ideas that violate physical laws or face fundamental technical barriers before you spend another dollar.
Feature Extraction
Pulls the core features of your invention from your description so you can verify nothing got missed.
Problem Analysis
Identifies the broader problems your invention addresses, so you can frame it correctly for filing.
Is your idea actually new?
Novelty Analysis
Compares your description against the full USPTO patent database and ranks the most similar prior art by similarity score, with direct links to each patent.
Obviousness Scoring
Measures how "obvious" your idea would seem to a practitioner, both for single features and multi-feature combinations. High obviousness = high rejection risk at the USPTO.
Journal Paper Analysis
Scans 200M+ academic abstracts and flags published research similar to your idea, organized concept by concept.
Uniqueness Verdict
A final, clear call: is your idea unique enough to pursue, or does it need rework?
Where do you stand in the market?
Prior Art Landscape
A color-coded matrix showing which of your features and concepts are covered by existing patents and which are open.
Competitive Landscaping
Lists companies already working on similar ideas, highlighting potential competitors, collaborators, or acquisition targets.
Geographic Market Analysis
Identifies global regions where your product would likely find the strongest demand based on demographic and economic signals.
Technology & Industry Mapping
Surfaces industries and companies likely to license or acquire your IP.
What do you do next?
Draft Claims
Generates an initial set of patent claims you can bring to your attorney for review. (Not a legal opinion. Always have counsel review.)
CPC Classification
Lists the CPC codes your patent would likely fall under at the USPTO.
Invention Disclosure Document
A structured first draft of your invention disclosure, covering the idea description, its value, the problem it solves, current workarounds, and what your invention improves. Ready to hand to your attorney as a starting point.
Potential Products & Services
Shows larger products or services that could use your invention as a component, broadening its commercial value.
See what a Paseo report looks like
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Novelty Analysis: prior art ranked by similarity score with direct USPTO links, color-coded by risk level.
Your ideas stay yours
Paseo is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified. All data is encrypted. Every customer account is fully isolated. We never train on your ideas or your data, and we offer a Zero Retention Mode that deletes your analysis data on demand. If your compliance team needs documentation, we have it.
Common questions
Does Paseo replace a patent attorney?
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No. Paseo gives you the intelligence you need before and during the patent process. It surfaces prior art, scores novelty and obviousness, and drafts initial claims. But it is not a legal opinion. Always have qualified counsel review your results before making filing decisions.
How long does an analysis take?
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About 10 minutes from the time you submit your idea description. The analysis runs across 220M+ patents and journal articles and covers 16 separate dimensions.
What does Paseo actually search?
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The full U.S. patent database at the USPTO, plus over 200 million academic journal article abstracts. Results include direct links to each relevant patent or publication.
What if my idea scores low on uniqueness?
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That's actually useful information. The Prior Art Landscape shows you exactly which features and concepts are already covered and which are open. You can use that to refine your idea, identify white space, or decide to pivot before spending money on a filing that's likely to get rejected.
Is my idea safe on your platform?
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Yes. Paseo is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified. Your data is encrypted, your account is isolated from all other users, and we never train our models on customer ideas. We also offer Zero Retention Mode, which deletes your analysis data on demand.
Who uses Paseo?
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R&D teams running patentability checks before committing resources. Patent attorneys scoping FTO and triaging prior art. In-house IP counsel screening ideas for go/no-go decisions. Individual inventors validating concepts before engaging a firm. Universities conducting prior art research for academic inventions and technology transfer. Paseo is industry-agnostic and works for any domain.
Can I export the results?
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Yes. Every report can be downloaded as a PDF. You can also export the underlying data tables (Similarity, Obviousness, Feature Landscape) as spreadsheets.
How is this different from a standard prior art search?
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A traditional prior art search is manual, expensive, and narrow. An attorney or search firm picks keywords, runs queries, and reviews results one by one. That process typically takes weeks and costs thousands of dollars. Paseo automates the heavy lifting across 16 dimensions simultaneously, then ranks and visualizes the results so your team (or your attorney) can focus on the patents that actually matter. And at the end, Paseo delivers a clear uniqueness verdict on your idea: is it unique enough to pursue, or does it need rework before you spend money on a filing?
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