Patentability or Novelty Search is conducted to identify the relevant prior art to make informed decisions before filing patent applications. We evaluate the invention disclosure to locate patent specifications, technical publications and nontechnical publications relevant to invention. Our report will help you to better assess the novelty and non-obviousness, build opinion whether to pursue patent protection and may indicate what issues could arise during examination. A comprehensive search will necessarily eliminate costly litigation later.

- A critical missed prior art can be a valuable instrument to invalidate the granted patent later.

Freedom to operate or clearance search is performed prior commercialization of invention to avoid alleged infringement while making, using and selling of product or process. The clearance report outlays the potential for infringement of an issued patent's claims of those of a pending application. We perform and exhaustive search to identify potential infringements, that assures our clients make their key business decisions based on our report.

Validity/Invalidation searches are performed to assess the absolute novelty at the time of invention. Focusing on the claims, the aim of the search is to locate evidence i.e. patents or other published prior art which invalidate or limits the scope of the invention. Validity search reports are crucial during licensing where licensee conducts validity search to ensure that proposed deal terms are justified.

Infringement search is performed to evaluate whether a product or process infringes upon in-force patent claims. Our experienced analysts identify competitor products for each of the claims that may read on a product or process.