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Fresh Off Patent: lapsed US patents, screened for products that sell

Fresh Off Patent: lapsed US patents, screened for products that sell

Oct 10, 2026 E-Commerce
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Fresh Off Patent: lapsed US patents, screened for products that sell

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Every week a few thousand US patents lapse early because the owner stopped paying the maintenance fees. Once that happens, the invention is free for anyone to make. The USPTO publishes all of it, but it’s buried in a 1.6 GB data file that almost nobody reads. So I built Fresh Off Patent. Every Wednesday it: pulls the week’s new lapses from the USPTO data (4,249 in the latest batch) filters them to things people buy, plus software, medical devices, robotics and a few other fields llm summarizes u...

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