Professional Services: Search services

Improve the efficiency of your search results by outsourcing patent searches to our team of IP experts.

Quality results to help you make decisions, faster

Through global on-shore management and in-platform delivery, trust that the PatSnap team will deliver quality patent search results, in addition to an interactive delivery, allowing for quick drill down capabilities, visualization capabilities and automated updates to the data set.

Knockout, patentability and novelty assessment search

Let us help increase your success rate.

Our Professional Services team can save you time and resources in the submission and application process by identifying existing and the most relevant prior art, to help assess novelty and patentability of an invention.

This helps:

Increase grant success rates and reduce prosecution costs through better initial claim drafting in light of the best prior art
Drive savings and ROI of R&D spend by avoiding wasted time and legal expense for disclosures which may not be novel or make their way through pendency
Provide and meet IDS requirements and the duty to disclose as well as making filing more efficient
Improve Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and other America Invents Act (AIA) mechanisms

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State of the art search

We'll help you see opportunities.

Identify prior art and trends in a particular technology field or domain, in both patent and non-patent literature. Identify emerging and incumbent players for competitive intelligence and easily turn output into advanced dashboards using PatSnap's interactive delivery feature via Workspaces.

This will help:

Collect a list of related prior art, and visually display, share or drill down with ease
Determine key and emerging players, pivot and landscape results
Shortcut more expensive routes to landscape , as results can be interactively viewed and presented with ease
Identify licensing, partnership or purchase opportunities

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Freedom to operate (FTO) search

Our FTO experts can navigate for you.

Assess the risk of patent infringement by focusing on the patent claims of relevant prior art. PatSnap's search analyst team will compile a list of relevant patents to help determine freedom to operate on whether a product can be released to market or evaluate clearance.

This will help:

Determine favourable litigation outcomes
Properly evaluate when to go to market and how to mitigate risk
Easily share internally or with outside counsel and clients
Local language experts allow for targeting jurisdictions of interest with deeper full text searching

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Validity, invalidity, and infringement search

Our team is your competitive advantage.

With PatSnap’s Professional Services team we can help you review relevant prior art that can challenge the validity of a granted patent to support litigation matters, IP asset purchases, and M&A due diligence.

This will help:

Determine if a competitor’s patent can be knocked out
Use results for AIA procedures and easily share interactive results with clients or counsel
Save time and costs in the litigation process

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Patsnap’s semantic search has been a high value-add for McCoy because it allows an engineer who's not technically trained in patent processes to perform a level of initial exploration. That's probably where we're using Patsnap the most and getting the most immediate value out of it.

Dusty Sonnier, Director of Engineering and Technology

Patsnap helps us identify the white space that we can go and innovate in or take advantage of—it gives the team the best chance of success. But it’s not just giving you data, it makes it useful by turning it into something you can pull insight from easily.

Caroline Priestley, Head of IP, Suntory Beverage and Food Limited

Patsnap helps LiveRamp remain innovative by allowing us to see where the competition is playing through the landscaping tools. It lets us see where there are new opportunities and helps us focus in on those areas in an intelligent way.

Charles Zinsmeyer, Director of IP, LiveRamp

Patsnap helps me sort through large amounts of data ensuring enough ground has been covered to establish a good assessment. This strengthens my confidence and the likelihood of GKN obtaining good patent protection.

Eric LaMothe, Patent Manager, GKN Driveline

We have a couple of offices that use Patsnap to collaborate and communicate on projects—our researchers are able to discuss the status of a particular technology area in real time when working on inventions.

Ho Yuen Ping, Associate Director Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore

With Patsnap, we can pull up information and get a much better snapshot of where our competitor’s intellectual property fits into the market and consider how we can then use that knowledge to work more efficiently.

Lou Lombardo, Senior Scientist—R&D Technology, Takasago

With Patsnap tools like semantic search and alerts, we feel confident that we know what is going on in our technology spaces. Patsnap also has legal information that is not available in free patent tools.

Maria Pia, Project Manager, Ovivo

With Patsnap email alerts, I can get weekly updates on competitor patent filings and specific technology spaces sent straight to my inbox. This has saved us a lot of valuable time which would have otherwise been spent searching and sorting through patent documents. Overall, Patsnap makes our innovation process much more efficient.

Mark Noel, Vice President of Technology and Intellectual Property, Curis Inc

As a company pioneering new approaches to disease-specific gene therapy, it’s important we can analyze sequences and connect them to related global patent application families when conducting FTO and patentability assessments. Patsnap Bio has been very helpful in our daily processes as it allows us to search by sequence, quickly view sequences in patent applications, and further extract and align sequences, all within one tool. Workspaces have also been useful when coordinating reviews with colleagues, as they allow us to share our results asynchronously, preventing siloed work.

Adam Poulin-Kerstien, Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, Dyno Therapeutics

With Patsnap’s automatic email notifications, we can easily monitor the IP space, our competitors, customers, and emerging trends. Plus, its Claim Tree, Smart Image, and Workspace tools (to name a few) simplify the patent analysis process saving us ample time. Also, when looking for potential M&A targets, we leverage Insights to understand a company’s IP portfolio. Having access to these data points is crucial to our ongoing success, and now we can't imagine not using Patsnap!

Claude Carignan, Senior IP Director & Technical Advisor, Teraxion

Patsnap's intuitive platform has enabled us to bring our patent analysis in-house, providing greater visibility of competitor innovations and easy access to full patent details, reducing our reliance on external counsel. While steel production is a mature industry, we continue to develop innovative, more sustainable products for our customers while also working to develop new technologies to transform our business and progress our low carbon roadmap. Patsnap is an essential and cost-effective tool to help us with this challenge.

Dr. Gari Harris, Head of R&D and Intellectual Property Rights, British Steel Limited

At Innovent Labs Africa, we are working to develop the innovation ecosystem of Africa by providing expertise on innovation coupled with enterprise creation to start-ups, MSME's, academia and more. We have trusted Patsnap as our software solution of choice; their connected innovation intelligence platform enables us to perform technology landscaping, novelty searches and so much more. Being supported by the data and customized analytics Patsnap provides, the potential for expanding innovation in Africa is immense.

Patrick Mugisha (Moogy) & Raymond Natukunda, Co-founders, Innovent Labs Africa

As a consulting firm, we touch upon many aspects of innovation within various industries. In our work, it’s imperative we take a data driven, evidence-based approach, especially when working with patents, technology, and innovation. Patsnap’s visual representations of data, such as patent landscapes and Insights, very quicky give us a high-level understanding and easily digestible visualization of a technology space. It ultimately helps us gain a deeper understanding of the adjacent technology areas, key players, and potential white space, enabling us to better serve our clients.

Joe Gifford, President and Principal Consultant, Catalytic Consulting