About us

Aim

IdeaNav aims to be a primary resource website for inventors, navigating ideas to products.

Who we are

IdeaNav is run by patent attorneys Paulo Lopes, Anthony van Zantwijk and McLean Sibanda. The company was spun out of Sibanda & Zantwijk Patent Attorneys (a firm specialising in intellectual property (IP) commercialisation) in 2007.

Our philosophy

IdeaNav is passionate about making IP accessible and affordable by developing IP tools and making them freely available.

Our clients choose to use us – for each service we offer, we ensure that a corresponding free comprehensive “do it yourself tool” is available.

All IdeaNav software is developed by Silveria.

Pricing

We offer the most affordable patent and design services, guaranteed without compromising quality.

We have discarded the industry-standard hourly-rate billing model and substituted it with a fixed, transparent pricing policy that inventors can budget on.

Independence and objectivity

To protect our independence and objectivity, IdeaNav refuses to accept or offer referral payments – all referrals are motivated by value to the inventor instead of relationships, reciprocity and “rebates”.

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