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Patent and IPR Solutions
Our patent analyst will carefully look into the subject matter of your invention and
scrutinize to find whether the invention is already available to public. Our patent analyst
will also provide critical legal opinion on the invention for further precedence.
Einfolge’s team has in-depth expertise in IP information and research to assist you in
specific areas of patent research.
Our approach has been carefully shaped to take advantage of our unique combination
of strategic insight deep industry expertise and technology.
Our Patent Research Services are:
Patentability Search
State-of-art Search
Validation / Invalidation Study
Infringement Study
Freedom to Operate FTO Search
Accelerated Examination Search
Patentability Search
Our patentability search involves searching the prior art which includes published
patent applications issued patents and any other published documents in light of your
invention with the aim of determining whether your patent application is worth pursuing
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based on the patentability aspects of the inventive concept. The basic purpose of a
patentability search is to better assess the likelihood of securing patent protection for an
invention.
This search answers the questions like your idea is truly novel or not has it already
been patented has it been anticipated or rendered obvious. Since the cost of preparing
filing and prosecuting or attempting to prosecute a patent application is substantial the
search suggests will it be worth the cost to file a patent at all for the idea and will it be
worth the effort and expense to fully develop and market your concept.
This search not only makes the application process easier but also helps to strengthen
the invention against issues of validity. The search report includes relevant patent and
non-patent prior art references listed in a comprehensive manner. Patent search is
conducted using public and subscribed patent databases that cover patents from
around the globe. Non-patent literature search is conducted in the relevant technology
domain using scientific databases.
State-of-art Search
Our State of the Art Search is designed to provide up-to-date information and progress
in a specific technical field. It is the broadest of all patent searches which also provides
an overall perspective of a particular technical field
and is typically conducted prior to making a patent
application or prior to amendment of an existing
patent application.
This search involves a comprehensive review of all
patent and non-patent literature thereby allowing
client to update with the state of the art that exists
already in a particular technology and then to build
on it. It will also allow a company to spot new
competitors and to identify new technological trends.
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Our State of the art search will help in making informed decisions in determining the
direction for steering the RD and prior to making further investments mergers and
acquisitions.
Our state of art searches will also help you to make informed decisions before incurring
additional costs in relation to your patent strategies. This search includes all issued
patent published patents and other publications.
Validation / Invalidation Study
Validity /Invalidity Study are executed post issuances i.e. grant of patent
We run an exhaustive prior art search on the claims features. The purpose of the
validity/invalidity search is either to validate the enforceability of a patent’s claims or to
invalidate one or more claims of a patent respectively. These two searches are identical
except for the desired outcome valid or invalid patent claims of the search. The search
is restricted to a cut-off date determined from the priority date of the target patent. This
is an extensive search of patents technical
publications and/or any other available written
materials that may be relevant to the patented
invention. All publicly available documents or
evidence of public disclosure prior to the filing of the
target patent are analyzed.
A validity search is requested even when no lawsuit
has been filed to identify potential attackers and/or
references that challenge the presumption of validity of a subject patent. This study is
helpful in determining the validity of a patent’s claims prior to licensing agreement
royalty negotiations and patent valuations. Invalidity study is mainly used as a defensive
tool against alleged infringement by invalidating claims of the infringed patent.
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Infringement Study
Our Infringement study helps in estimating the risk of patent infringement before
developing producing and marketing your product.
Einfolge Technologies provides Patent Infringement Searches to locate any unexpired
patents whose claims read on the product features. The goal of this study is to uncover
patents with claims that could represent an infringement risk to a new product and the
search should take place before the product is released to market. Infringement
searches may also cover expired patent art and sometimes non-patent sources such
as product literature.
The Infringement study can be product- to- patent mapping or patent- to- patent
mapping depending on the immediate targets. This study helps in estimating the risk of
patent infringement before developing producing and marketing a product and also
figure out the competitor’s patent coming in your way and invalidate it.
Freedom to Operate FTO Search
Freedom to operate searches also known as Clearance Search or Right to Use Search
identifies potential patent barriers to the commercialization of products or technologies.
We identify published applications and unexpired patents in a specific jurisdiction or
worldwide containing claims that could possibly indicate a risk of infringement by an
inventive product or process of the client. The product/process features are mapped
against the claim features of relevant patent references that are in-force in order to
determine the degree of freedom to operate without infringing on existing patents.
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Accelerated Examination Search
We provide pre-examination searches as per the guidelines of the USPTO’s
Accelerated Examination Program. An Accelerated Examination requires the applicant
to submit a pre-examination search document PESD and an accelerated examination
support document AESD to illustrate how the claims of an application are allowable
over known related art.
We search in all the prescribed resources and our report comprises all search related
information in accordance with USPTO requirements and organize our deliverable for
easy review and ensures fast and affirmative response from the patent examiner
prosecuting your application.
This search helps in significantly reducing the total cost and time frame for obtaining a
patent. The accelerated examination search also proved to be useful for technologies
with short lifetime rapidly growing portfolios and to get coverage in a new technology in
time to establish a position.