Observed arrival · 2026-10-09
Fresh Off Patent: a weekly shortlist of lapsed inventions
Fresh Off Patent screens recently lapsed US patents for inventions it judges commercially promising, then publishes a weekly ranked list.
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- Product scouts, inventors, and people researching commercial product ideas
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- Its latest batch starts with 3,852 lapsed patents; 197 make the weekly list, while five are free to read in full.
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The latest list groups inventions by product category and gives short descriptions alongside individual scores. The displayed scoring breakdown assigns 30% to demand, assessed using similar products and their sale prices, and 20% each to makeability and novelty. The site also reports that 1.5% of lapsed patents are later revived, a qualification worth keeping in view when treating a lapse as an opportunity.
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