FREEDOM TO OPERATE / INFRINGEMENT / CLEARANCE PATENT SEARCH
Thorough searching and analysis to support your freedom to operate opinions
Providing professional freedom to operate searches in many mechanical, medtech, medical and engineering fields. This type of search identifies risks and barriers in the commercialisation of your product or process. A freedom to operate search is also known as a clearance or an infringement patent search.
FREEDOM TO OPERATE SEARCH COMPONENTS
- Patent claim analysis for relevant jurisdictions
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Headings
- International Patent Classification (IPC) headings
- 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
- We can also look for documents that may assist with identifying novelty
We use developed methodologies and strategies to locate a comprehensive set of relevant results, helping you to make an informed decision. Reports can be formatted according to your preference.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Searching thoroughly the features that need to be cleared
- Likely legal status provided – ‘Legal status information is received directly from the top patent offices around the world, including JPO, USPTO, DPMA, INPI, OEPM, SIPO and INPADOC data feeds’ *
- Relevant claims listed in the report notes
- 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
* We do not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the data. A qualified attorney should be consulted for advice on patent legal status
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