Licensing, keys and quotas — and what to do when something is wrong.

Three questions, three places to look.

Most of what people arrive needing is already written down. This saves you reading the wrong page.

Two ways to run IPVerifier

IPVerifier is free to install. What costs money is the reasoning behind an audit, because an audit calls several independent AI providers for every assertion it checks. There are two ways that gets paid for, and which one applies to you depends only on what you are auditing.

Test licences, in plain terms

So that you can evaluate IPVerifier without opening accounts anywhere, we let you run sample reports we provide on our own AI capacity. Three things are worth knowing before you rely on it:

• They work only inside IPVerifier, and only on the sample reports provided for that purpose — not on a document of your own.
• They are capped per account. The current limit is stated in section 6 of the EULA, which is the one place we keep it up to date. Unused runs have no value and do not roll over.
• They are a courtesy, not an entitlement. The credentials are held on our service and are never issued to you, and we can change or withdraw the limit.

If you want to see IPVerifier work on your material without setting anything up, you do not need keys for that either — send us a document and we will run the audit and send the report back, usually within two business days. How that works. Please send non-confidential material only.

The keys you need, and where to get each one

An audit is adversarial by construction: separate providers argue the opposite sides of every assertion and a different one decides. That independence is the whole point — no model grades its own work — and it is why IPVerifier asks for more than one account rather than one.

Each one is a normal developer account: sign up, add a payment method, create a key, paste it into IPVerifier. You will typically need to put a small amount of credit on each account before its key will answer — a key with no credit behind it is valid and still fails, which is the single most common setup problem we see.

Minimum, and what we recommend

Quotas, limits and who you pay

Before a run starts, the pane shows a pre-flight estimate of what that audit will cost in provider calls, so you can see the size of a job before committing to it rather than after.

How your keys and documents are handled

• Keys are stored encrypted and used only to perform the operations you ask for inside IPVerifier. They are never echoed back to the screen once saved.
• You can remove them at any time, and removal takes effect immediately.
• Your relationship with each provider is yours. You are responsible for your keys and for what those providers charge; we are not a party to it, and we cannot see your bills.
• Your source material is never used to train models. What leaves your machine is governed by the EULA and the privacy policy.
• Audits are bound to the open document. Findings and jumps land in that exact file, which is why we say to audit the report of record rather than a scratch copy.

The authoritative text is sections 6 and 7 of the EULA. Where this page and the EULA ever differ, the EULA governs.

If you also want Reporter

IPVerifier audits an analysis. It does not produce one. Reporter is the other half: it starts from your invention rather than your keywords, searches patents and the published literature across jurisdictions, and produces the analysis that IPVerifier then puts on trial.

Reporter runs in two modes, and choosing the wrong one is the most common early mistake:

They are not two templates over one pipeline. Prior-art mode applies a hard priority-date gate — anything published on or after your subject's filing date is removed before scoring, because it cannot anticipate your invention — and scores for whether a reference discloses your specific claim elements. Landscape mode applies no date gate on purpose, and scores for technical overlap instead, because a patent filed last year is exactly what you want to see in a competitive read.

Reporter is not sold through the Marketplace and is not self-serve. Access is by request, and we will walk you through what it needs. Ask about Reporter.

What is CPARS?

CPARS is the Canonical Prior-Art Report Schema — the strict, validated format Reporter writes its findings into and IPVerifier reads them out of. It is the contract between the two halves.

You will see the name in report metadata and in the signed audit record, so it is worth knowing why it exists. A schema means every finding carries the same fields in the same shape every time: the claim element, its status, the verbatim passage offered as evidence, and where that passage came from. That is what makes an audit checkable rather than merely readable — an auditor can recompute the deterministic parts of a score from the record itself, and a run can be repeated and compared against an earlier one. A report that was free-form prose could be read, but it could not be re-examined this way.

The schema is versioned, and the version is written into every report, so a record stays interpretable after the format moves on.

What you actually receive

• A banded verdict for every audited section — green, amber or red — each finding carrying the passage it rests on, with the dissent left visible rather than smoothed away.
• A signed, hash-chained audit record you can retain for provenance.
• A review-ready Legal Case Brief, curated from the blocks you decide to keep.
• History — every completed audit is recorded and can be reopened.

Three real reports, unedited apart from a sample notice, are on the guide page if you would rather read finished output than a description of it: a claim-centric §103 report, a provenance appendix, and a prior-art report. Download the samples.

If you would like to watch a report being read and worked through rather than read one yourself, the full sessions are in the film room, by invitation.

Questions we are asked

IPVectors Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. IPVerifier supports the professional who signs the work; it does not replace them.