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Freedom to Operate Search
Freedom to Operate Search
Every product or service is a combination of distinct functional concepts and ideas in the technology sector, which is flowing with inventions. In this situation, it is critical for businesses to have a clear understanding of who owns their ideas on a proprietary basis.
IPR Researcher’s Freedom-to-operate (FTO) search enable businesses to do just that. The objective of our FTO search and analysis are designed to determine the likelihood of patent infringement for a certain invention.
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What is Freedom to Operate Search?
A freedom to operate search looks into active patents that could be infringed upon when your product is launched on the market. FTO is also termed as right to use search or clearance search. An FTO search is usually restricted to a particular jurisdiction but can be performed within multiple jurisdictions.
A claim-specific search is used in an FTO search to find claims that relate to the features of the product or service that will be offered in the market. Our comprehensive FTO search includes the following:
- Different search strategies/techniques to find relevant patents that your product may infringe on.
- Patent categorization to show the level of threat.
- Extensive mapping between features of the to-be-released product and claimed elements of patent references discovered.
- Legal opinion of the respective results i.e., whether the patent is in force, published, pending or already expired.
Benefits OF Freedom to Operate Search
- These searches enable firms to identify countries/regions where their inventions are unable to be commercialised due to existing patents.
- Assists in precisely identifying non-practicing companies that own patents but do not manufacture products based on those patents in their domain.
- FTO searches provide the due diligence needed when businesses attempt to invalidate patents that pose a potential threat to their new products.
- Discover expired patents in a certain geographic area.
Why Choose
IPR Researcher
- Subject matter experts that have completed100+ FTO project successfully.
- Access to 100+ patent and non-patent databases in multiple technological domains.
- Provides interim results and continuous communication, allowing for greater control over the search's path.
- Customized report in an easy to understand format.