Anyone can provide the services of a novelty/patentablity search or patent landscape report. However, a freedom to operate *analysis* is a different story. Even as a registered patent agent I am leery of freedom to operate. It is clear that only an attorney (does not need to be registered patent attorney) can provide a freedom to operate *opinion*. That is an analysis of the likelihood of being sued for infringement and the likelihood of prevailing if sued. An attorney can't have liability waived by a client for professional errors therefore they are expensive. Although a non-attorney might generate an *analysis* rather than an opinion, I think it is too fine a line and a client would take an analysis as an opinion. Of course search firms do freedom to operate searches (possibly with some analysis) for attorneys and the attorneys use that as the basis for an opinion.