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Patents in Plain English
Last updated 2026-07-05 · benchmark checked 2026-08-11 · unchanged since 2026-07-05 — deterministic & reproducible
A free database of US patents explained in plain English, without legal jargon.
Is Patents in Plain English production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Patents in Plain English 85 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Patents in Plain English (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Standards. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 80/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 75/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 860 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Sahi · product account @patentbrieforg
Who it's for
Inventors · Engineers · Founders · Patent analysts · Legal counsel
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