User Friendly Freedom to Operate Search Reports by Ingenious Ebrain FTO Study

Freedom to Operate Study
Since a patent has limited time span, scope and is applicable in particular countries, Freedom to
Operate (FTO) or Clearance Search helps to evaluate whether a proposed product has freedom
to operate in a country. Freedom to Operate/Clearance Search determines any infringement of a
patent by a product or service to be launched. It is a jurisdiction-based search that evaluates any
intellectual property rights that may hinder the manufacturing and marketing of a product in
particular countries. A FTO search conducted can help in deciding the direction of product
development.
It can be conducted at any stage of product life cycle from launching a product to finalizing its
design to determine the direction of product/technology development.
To perform an FTO, we require the description of the product with its key features that needs
clearance and the geographic regions where one intends to legally commercialize the product.
After the product’s key features has been approved by the client, an extensive jurisdiction-based
search is executed focusing on the scope of the patents including the patent applications.
Why to go for the FTO search?
FTO helps to assess the risk of potential infringement within a given jurisdiction and avoid
subsequent litigation by evaluating IP of third parties in a particular technology domain.
FTO analysis can also assist in tracking the prosecution status of patents (whether the patent is
expired or in-force). This would help in devising the timing of launching the product into market
without worrying of third party IP infringement.
FTO helps in exploring potential licensing and mergers or acquisitions amongst the assignee in
the specific technology.
Finally, FTO helps in exploring potential licensing and mergers or acquisitions amongst the
assignee in the specific technology.
Why Us?
Our team understands the significance of a thorough in-depth patent research. We have subject
matter experts in many areas of technology. Our experienced analysts utilize best strategies to
uncover essential information. We follow a ‘right person for right patent’ approach wherein we
make sure that the project team comprises domain specific experts.
We provide a customized Freedom to Operate search report which maps the features of the
product to the claims patentreferences and recommendations along with an exhaustive patent
bucket, consisting of relevant classes, and inventors; a description of the search strings used to
locate the data
Our FTO searches include a clear presentation of relevant claim language that relates to patents
which may be relevant to your product or service. Our results also comprises of graphical
representation of the competitors and their patented work. We assist in identifying risks of patent
infringement and potential workarounds.
Information is also graphically represented using a combination of intuitive graphs, pie-charts,
bubble charts and 2-D and 3-D charts.
About Us:
At Ingenious eBrain, we believe that humans assisted with machine intelligence can deliver
unparalleled results. Our proprietary in-house tools use the power of AI to deliver the most reliable
results in half the time used by traditional methods. The AI assisted workflow allows cost-efficient
decision making for even the most challenging problems.
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