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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

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pursuing 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

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on it. It will also allow a company to spot new competitors and to identify new

technological trends. Our State of the art search will help in making informed

decisions in determining the direction for steering the R&D 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.