Non-legal patent services, with the line drawn in public

Metadragons LLC provides non-legal patent services. We are not a law firm, and we are not registered to practice before the USPTO. We provide technical, analytical, commercial, and administrative services only. That sentence appears in our footer, but a footer is easy to skip, so this page spells out what it means in practice.

A clear boundary is not a limitation we tolerate. It makes the work faster and more honest. When everyone knows where research ends and legal judgment begins, nobody waits on the wrong professional, nobody pays legal rates for reading, and nobody mistakes a search report for a legal opinion. Good fences make honest neighbors.

There is a second reason. The market for invention services has a long history of schemes that took money from inventors with promises nobody could keep, and the Federal Trade Commission still warns consumers about them. We would rather be judged by what we refuse to do than by what we claim. So we publish both, along with the written disclosures we give before inventor engagements. Our method and engagement process are public too.

Federal law, at 35 U.S.C. § 297, requires invention promoters to give individual inventors specific written disclosures before entering into a contract. The statute lists five:

1. How many inventions the promoter has evaluated for commercial potential in the past 5 years, and how many of those evaluations were positive and negative.
2. How many customers have contracted with the promoter in the past 5 years, with certain exclusions.
3. How many customers the promoter knows to have received a net financial profit as a direct result of its services.
4. How many customers the promoter knows to have received license agreements for their inventions as a direct result of its services.
5. The names and addresses of all invention promotion companies the promoter or its officers have been affiliated with in the previous 10 years.

The statute also lists exclusions, including one for anyone evaluating the commercial potential of, or offering to license or sell, an issued utility patent or a previously filed nonprovisional utility application. Whether any law applies to a particular engagement is a legal question, and we don’t rely on an exclusion to decide what to tell you.

Our policy: we provide written disclosures to individual inventors before any engagement, consistent with 35 U.S.C. § 297. They address the statute’s categories, and they also state the scope of the work, the fixed fee and what it covers, that we are not a law firm, that no outcome is promised, and, for brokerage, the success-fee terms. They also say, in writing, that we will tell you plainly if the commercial evidence is weak. You will have them before you pay anything. See how this works for independent inventors.

Our engagement profiles are illustrative composites. Each is drawn from typical engagements, with details changed, and no real client is depicted. Every profile says so near the top, and any figures in them are labeled as illustrative.

We publish no testimonials, named or anonymous, and no client logos. Client confidentiality is one reason. The other is that testimonials in this market have earned suspicion: the FTC’s 2024 rule on consumer reviews and testimonials bans fake reviews and testimonials, including AI-generated ones and those from people with no real experience of a business. Rather than ask you to trust quotes, we publish our method, our scope, and our turnarounds, and let you check our work.

For the same reason, you won’t find client counts, deal totals, success rates, award badges, or membership logos on this site.