Patentability vs Freedom to Operate Search
Determining patentability and freedom to operate is critical to determining the ROI your company will receive from an invention. Generally, businesses can reduce risk by conducting patentability and FTO searches at strategic points throughout the innovation cycle. Understanding the extent...
Are You Using These Effective Patent Search Methods?
We’ve all heard that patent and non-patent literature are rich sources of information that can lead to your company’s next big breakthrough. However, uncovering the insights that propel your company forward necessitates the use of proper patent search methods. Here...
Idea Prioritization Using Statistics
It is both costly and time-consuming to move ideas through the innovation lifecycle, from conception and evaluation to protection and monetization. Even if your R&D team has a great idea, it is not possible to bring it to the market....
Conceptual Searching: Extracting Relevant Results
Keyword-based searching has well-documented limitations. A syntactic search engine will return results solely based on the phrases and words entered by the searcher. In this case, synonyms, translations, and homonyms are all problematic. This technology is simply insufficient to find...
Top Reasons to Conduct a Novelty Search
Is a Novelty Search Really Necessary? A patent is a costly endeavor, costing tens of thousands of dollars. And that’s assuming everything goes as planned! Any bumps or roadblocks you encounter along the way will cost you more money and...
Is a Patent Search Tool Necessary for R&D Teams?
Patent searching was once thought to be the sole domain of IP departments. Some corporate cultures discouraged engineers, researchers, and other inventors from even considering patents. They feared that doing so would limit innovation or perhaps even lead to (inadvertent)...
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