Keeping an eye on patent that can be yours or someone else’s is called as patent monitoring. Patent Monitoring Alert Reports help keeping you abreast about granted patents and new patent applications. It helps identify problems at an early stage. Also Read: Patent Monitoring: Basic Facts New technologies are emerging out for market recognition, every[…]
Freedom to operate is the right to sell your product without infringing any existing rights. It checks if a particular country/competitor has a product similar to you or not. The main aim is to calculate the risk of patent infringement. In the case of no similar products, one can easily commercialize the product but in[…]
Inculcating the term “Search” with “Patent Watch” refers to the process of checking the patents frequently. You may use various sources to do patent watch search. Generally, searchers watch official journals, databases, and online sites for newly published or pending patent applications. However, you may set patent watch search limit on the basis of the[…]
A Freedom to Operate (FTO) search is conducted to ensure a product does not infringe valid in-force patents. These patents are held within a country/region where an organization intends to conduct business. FTO Search is also known as Freedom to Practice search. The organization may have some options available even after FTO search provides existence[…]
The basic of any search consists of few important steps which bears utmost importance. Defining search strategy for FTO search can be composed through the below-mentioned steps. Identify all the aspects of the product that might conceivably have been patented. Identify all un-lapsed patents and patent applications potentially relevant to each identified aspect, in the desired[…]