PATENT INVALIDITY / VALIDITY / OPPOSITION / PRIOR ART SEARCH
Relied upon to provide relevant prior art to support opposition proceedings
Extensive experience in assisting opposition proceedings by locating critical prior art references to challenge a granted patent. We excel in finding references that are not easily located or overlooked in the examination process and can help oppose a granted patent and also test the strength of validity and validate claims. We have access to professional commercial patent databases with good coverage of territories, including Japan, China and Korea. All necessary resources available are used to find references that disclose the claimed features.
PATENT INVALIDITY | VALIDITY SEARCH COMPONENTS *
Multiple approaches
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Headings
- International Patent Classification (IPC) headings
- F-Terms (Japanese Patent Classification)
- US Patent Classification
- Assignee/Inventor Search
- Semantic Search – AI search for lateral searching
- Similarity Search – AI search for lateral searching
- Citation searches
- Keywords/synonyms and heading combinations
- Internet search
- Searching among foreign language published applications and patent publications
- Non-patent literature
- AI-assisted literature search
- Searching analogous art
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU *
Where a knock-out document is not located, we will aim to provide prior art patent references that can be combined and disclose descriptions of features of interest for obviousness purposes
- Useful patent invalidity search report formats that reduce your review time
- Searching all claim features or those specified by you
- A search of the dependent claims, if specified
- Intermediate patent references included
- Searching among Japanese, Chinese, Korean references using professional and commercial patent databases
- Comprehensive set of patent references, where available
- Use of commercial professional patent databases
- Use of our experience to use your budget wisely by locating and searching in the relevant classification areas
- We conduct the search with the belief that there is something to find
- Patent and published application PDFs supplied, where available, as a zip file
- Machine translations of foreign language published applications and patent publications
* The time available will determine the comprehensiveness of the search and which components are covered. We always use time wisely and work iteratively.
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