Patentability search
Identify and prioritize the prior art before filing a new patent application.
- Full understanding of the invention memo.
- Definition of the technological characteristics of the invention.
- Development of one (or more) search string(s) according to technological characteristics and querying of the Orbit Intelligence database.
- Screening and ranking of results.
Freedom-to-operate (FTO) search
Identify patents likely to cover technological characteristics defined by the client
- Review of the information and documents that will enable the definition of the technological characteristics of the product and/or service under consideration.
- Definition of key features and search parameters.
- Additional criteria may include identity or type of applicants, filing date, current legal status, territories, etc.
- Development of one (or more) search string(s) according to key features and search parameters and querying of the Orbit Intelligence database.
- Identification and prioritization of results according to their relevance score.
Patent invalidity search
Provide prior art documents that can be used in the invalidation of a patent application or granted patent
- Review of the patent that the client wishes to invalidate.
- Definition of key features and search parameters.
- Development of one (or more) search string(s) according to key features and search parameters, and querying of the Orbit database, including: all types of documents (patents and patent applications, scientific publications, conference proceedings, website, press articles, etc.).
- Identification and prioritization of results according to their relevance score.
- Analysis
- Opinion
- Opposition
- Litigation Support
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