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Patent Consultants Insurance

Protecting patent professionals with public liability insurance from less than £55* per year

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Professional Saver Public Liability Insurance for Patent Consultants


Our standard cover is:

  • £1 million cover for public and products liability (with an option to increase to £2 million, £5 million or £10 million)
  • £10,000 cover for any financial loss (£50K cover optional)
  • Worldwide liability cover for temporary work abroad for up to 14 days (excluding the USA and Canada)

As a patent consultant, you need insurance to protect you while helping clients patent inventions and register intellectual property (IP). Mistakes can happen, potentially leaving your clients unable to protect or profit from their creations.

Our tailored public liability policies give you complete peace of mind that your insurer will deal with any disputes or financial loss claims caused by your services.

Why Do Patent Consultants Need Insurance?

Without insurance, mistakes in filing patents or assessing infringement risks could leave inventors unable to protect or profit from their inventions legally. This may result in substantial licensing revenue losses, leaving consultants liable for negligence claims running into millions.

Our specialist insurance covers any injury, financial loss or negligence claim, giving you complete peace of mind.

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Why choose Professional Saver patent consultants insurance ?

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How our patent consultants insurance works

1 Apply online

Complete our simple quote form with basic details about your business.

2 Get a quote

Get an instant quote & choose any optional covers you may need.

3 You’re insured!

Instantly activate your Professional Saver policy and view your certificates online.

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What Is Patent Consultants Insurance?

Patent consultants insurance protects professionals who advise inventors, R&D firms and manufacturers on securing patents and IP rights to safeguard their innovations. This covers:

  • Patent searches to verify the uniqueness of inventions
  • Preparing and filing patent applications
  • Liaising with patent offices during registration
  • Renewing patents to retain ongoing legal protection

However, risks include missed prior art enabling others to copy ideas, incorrectly filed patents leaving inventions exposed, inadequate protection from infringement and poor advice leading inventors to lose out financially.

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What Does Our Patent Consultants Insurance Cover?

Our patent consultancy policies can cover:

  • Public Liability – Third-party injury or property damage occurring during client visits, e.g., knocking over a prototype invention.
  • Professional Indemnity (optional) – Your client suffers financial losses from your incorrect advice such as writing flawed patent applications, poor infringement assessments or renewal oversights. This policy covers legal costs and damages if you’re sued.
  • Legal Expenses – Pays legal costs if you face civil lawsuits over your consultancy work.

Additional Patent Consultants Insurance

You can add contents and equipment insurance as a separate policy to cover lost, damaged or stolen vital gear like computers and phones.

We can also extend your policy to cover freelancers, contractors or temporary staff working under your business identity.

We offer varying cover levels to choose from to suit your specific business needs. Simply fill out our quick online form for your quote.

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Why Choose Professional Saver for Patent Advisory Business Insurance?

With 35+ years of experience and hundreds of clients, you can trust us to protect your consultancy. Our key advantages are:

  • Direct Specialists – We are not a comparison website. Get your quote directly from us.
  • 24/7 Legal Helpline – Whenever you need expert legal guidance on insurance matters, our dedicated helpline offers advice.
  • Monthly Instalments – Spread the cost by paying annually or in monthly instalments for any insurance policy costing more than £125.

Get a tailored quote using our online form and join the many businesses we protect.

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Chosen by over 5000 businesses and counting*

Chosen by over 18761 businesses and counting

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We like to keep things simple. Your quote, purchase and documents are all available online, anytime.

Monthly Instalments

Cashflow is important to every business. Spread the cost by paying in easy monthly instalments.

Instant Cover

No need to wait for your documents. Our professional cover starts from the date you select.

Added Protection

Public liability, products liability, financial loss, legal expenses and accidental death cover as standard.

* Total number of live policies as of 31/10/2025

FAQs

Patent Consultants Insurance FAQs

Patent consultants are vulnerable to professional indemnity and other claims because inventors rely on their counsel to protect IP and profit from innovations legally. Mistakes leave consultants liable for potentially substantial pay-outs without insurance.

  • Poor prior art search misses earlier patents, allowing others to copy your client’s idea. Our indemnity insurance covers the inventor’s loss claims.
  • A botched patent application gets rejected. Our policy covers the costs of filing a new application and making up for lost licensing deals.
  • A flawed infringement assessment sees the inventor sued for IP theft. Our insurance protects you against the damages.
  • You forget to renew a patent and another person copies the invention. Our cover provides compensation.

We cover liability risks from all core patent consultancy activities:

  • Patentability assessments
  • Prior art and uniqueness searches
  • Preparing and filing applications
  • Infringement risk analysis
  • Patent office liaison
  • Ongoing renewals and protection

Yes – our policies can cover temporary staff, freelancers and contractors conducting patent work on your behalf. For example, suppose a contractor assisting with prior art searches overlooks a key patent, leading your client’s invention to be copied and commercially exploited without consent or payment.

In that case, our insurance helps protect against the significant financial claim made against you as a result.

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