Questions
The ones that decide whether to call
Asked often enough that they belong on a page rather than in an email.
Asked on the first call
The questions that decide whether this is worth your time
Do you take the intellectual property?
No. Everything produced in an engagement is yours, and that is in the contract rather than in a sentence on a website. We file nothing on your invention.
The one thing we keep is general knowledge. We do not unlearn how a battery management system works because we saw yours.
Are you patent attorneys?
No, and the distinction matters. We search the record and tell you what it means for the engineering. Filing, prosecuting and giving a formal freedom to operate opinion is legal work, and it belongs with a qualified attorney. We work alongside one and we will introduce you if you do not have one.
What does the search cost, and what if it says stop?
The search is quoted as a fixed price before it starts. If it ends in stop, you have paid for a few weeks instead of a few quarters, and you keep the landscape document. That is the outcome we are least sorry about.
Do you hold certifications?
Daylited holds no management system certification today, and we will not imply one. When a project needs a certified process we say which one and who holds it.
What we do is the conformity work itself: the technical file, the risk assessment, the standards applied and the declaration of conformity that carries your name. The notified body or test house that signs off is named in the plan before the work starts.
Will you sign a non disclosure agreement before the first call?
Yes, and we prefer it. Send yours and we will sign it if it is reasonable. If you would rather use ours, ask and you will have ours instead.
How small is too small?
One person with a drawing is a normal first call. We would rather look at a sketch than at a business plan, and the search is the same search whether the company behind it has one employee or four hundred.
Tell us what you are building
Two paragraphs is enough. It goes straight to the person who would do the work.