Intellect-Partners

PRIOR ART / INVALIDITY RESEARCH

Our engineers combine diligent search and analysis with their own experience of working within varied technology to provide you information searching and analyzing services with excellent quality through not only cost-effective prior art searches but also through technically detailed invalidity contentions and a comprehensive invalidity analysis.

Patentability Searches

Validating Concept before application filing. Our patentability (novelty) searches help you to identify any prior patents/arts that can prove to be a potential threat to the grant of your patent. Patentability searches are generally conducted prior to the filing of the patent, however, it is always better to conduct any such search earlier in the development of the invention, to save your investment. We here at Intellect Partners not only provide you with just the relevant references, but our search reports contain a detailed assessment of the prior art that saves your time and directs you to the decision to whether or not to file the patent. Our exhaustive technical domain knowledge combined with the maturity and diligence of our search methods empowers our experts to go deeper on your behalf for conducting a comprehensive prior art search. Best practices are taken into account while conducting a prior art search:

We search for international patent databases and relevant international non-patent literature to have a deep insight into the technology area. 

Our Technical experts formulate best strategies/methodologies such as Keyword-based search (Logically combine the keywords to form search queries) and Classification based search (such as IPC, CPC, US, and ECLA) to unveil the relevant and essential information. 

We deliver highly cost-effective search reports with no compromise on the quality, which is easily readable with a focus on the Search Methodology, Search Results, and Conclusions. 

Validity/Invalidity Search

Developing high-resolution claim charts to indicate infringement 

Patent Validity Search uncovers patents or other prior art, published before the earliest priority date of the target patent, which might render a granted patent invalid. 

Validity searches may be conducted to check the strength of a granted patent while exploring the available licensing options. Our dedicated team of researchers specializes in excavate potential prior art for patents that have been asserted in a case. You require a validity assessment search before entering into licensing, buying or selling agreements, facing a patent infringement lawsuit and to oppose the patent of a strong contender during the post-grant opposition period. 

We use a systematic and logical approach for conducting validity assessment searches by performing a thorough review of the File Wrapper/Prosecution History of the patent. Our multi-pronged search covers all major patent and publication databases around the world as well as all major products and historical databases. We deliver a full validity/invalidity search report, a claims-mapping chart, and electronic copies of any cited prior art.