Prior Art Search Services in USA

High-quality prior art search firms report that include patent documents and non-patent literature are heavily in demand for a variety of purposes.   These reports assist the requesters in making very important decisions. The requesters could vary from attorneys in law firms , to corporate attorneys, to technology heads of research organizations to even the CXOs of startups, etc. The nature of decisions ranges from proceeding with a particular research direction to filing a patent to going after a potential licensee to filing a lawsuit against a potential infringer, among other such decisions.  Also, depending on the nature of the searches assigned, the type of report varies from novelty to patentability to invalidation to freedom-to-operate to state-of-the-art landscape and so on.  Thus, it can be seen that the ability to make such critical decisions is directly dependent on the quality of the priorart search India reports being presented to the requesters....

1.  COMPETITOR ANALYSIS From the several million patents available online, extracting those that belong to a specific organization is a specialized task requiring exceptional skills to understand the various ways the organization ends up owning or using the patents, trademarks &industrial designs .   Further, the search professional needs to be fully aware of all the various names the organization may have held in the past, as potentially, patents may have been filed under each of those names, and continues to use that name.   Other such situations may also arise, which may result in some key patents being missed unless one is aware of these specific situations.   This is essential because, without a proper understanding of the competition, a business ends up chasing shadows instead of becoming competitive in the market place.   This search and analysis are now seen as a necessary aspect of every business in its efforts to maintain its competitiveness. ...

FREEDOM TO OPERATE (FTO) or CLEARANCE or FREEDOM TO PRACTICE (FTP) Identifying patients that may be enforced against a product or service offering is the crux of this search.   In this regard, it is extremely important to understand that even if the product is covered under a patent owned by the proprietor, there may be components of the product that may be covered by a different patent owned by someone else, which may jeopardize the business built around the product.   The FTO search is designed to extract such relevant patents.   Thus, it is advantageous to conduct such a search well ahead of a product launch and continue to do the search until the day of the launch.   This search idea may be extended to other forms of intellectual property rights as well, including trademarks , industrial designs , etc.   For this situation, it is important to understand the territorial nature of intellectual property rights, as well as what makes an IPR enforceable. ...