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Ensure Your Invention’s Safe Launch with a Comprehensive FTO Search

Legal Advantage LLC’s FTO search helps alert you to possible infringement risks early on in the patent process. With expert help from our qualified search team, you can ensure the safe launch of your product and build a secure and viable business strategy.

Unparalleled accuracy in strategy, relevancy, and reporting.

A Freedom to Operate (FTO) or infringement search or clearance search helps ensure the safe launch of your product, process, or service by identifying whether or not there is a risk of infringing on third-party rights. In other words, an FTO search determines the existence of enforceable IP rights claiming the features of your product, process, or service and which could hinder your commerce.

By making you aware of possible infringement risks early on in the product development stage, an FTO search can save you a lot of time and capital and help you build a commercial strategy that is secure and viable. Your approach to a potential patent barrier may vary: you may work around the troubling IP, enter into a licensing agreement with the third-party IP holder, or try to invalidate the obstructing IP.

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Our team offers comprehensive FTO searches and related legal support services in New York, Washington, DC, and other major cities in the US and Canada. For more information, contact the Legal Advantage LLC office at (301) 637-6180 today.

Our Process

Because patent rights are territorial, our FTO search identifies active issued patents and pending published applications within your specific country or region of interest. We can also search for PCT applications that may enter into the national stage or expand the search to include foreign as well as expired patents.

We determine the scope of the search based on the features of the product, process, or service at issue. Any potentially relevant patents that come up during the search are flagged for checking. We analyze these patents to determine whether they pose an infringement risk to your product, process, or service, and also if they are active.

Our experts’ keen understanding of claim language and scope puts them in an excellent place to craft IP strategies that not only cover the features of your product, process, or service directly, but also target concepts that broadly encompass these features.

Once the search process is concluded, we provide an intuitive FTO report that includes the potential claims in specific patents, their bibliographic data, and the patents’ current legal status.

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Why Choose Us?
Highly qualified and well informed team consisting of PhDs, Masters, Engineers, former patent examiners, and patent agents with over 500 years of collective work experience.
Top IP support services company serving a majority of the Am Law 500 firms and Fortune 500 companies.
Easy-to-follow project reports with designs based on our experience and our clients’ common preferences. Our reports show the exact portions of the prior art that is relevant—no junk data, thus enabling you to make decisions quickly and with a high level of accuracy. Each report lists the concepts, keywords, and classification codes searched.
Multi-tier quality check at each stage—from the kickoff meeting through the project’s progress to the final wrap-up—ensures unparalleled accuracy in strategy, relevancy, and reporting.
In many occasions, our analysts not only search prior arts that represent the requirement, but also those that resemble it. We perform a fine assessment of the technology in question as well as of other prior arts that may have similar functionality.
Your searches and analyses are conducted by our most qualified analysts in the given sub-technology—we don’t just assign searches to the earliest available analyst in the broad-technology domain.
Access to the world’s leading 250+ patent and non-patent literature databases.
Our search experts are well acquainted with combination strategies that produce relevant results—apt selection and combination of patent classes, subclasses, and keywords.
We tailor the report to the way you like to see it. Our clients’ preferences often vary from a full report to just the list of identified references on a single page.
Fast turnaround. Our team is trained to delve deep with speed—no haste.
We search the art by amalgamating science, law, and logic. Our analysts and managers are diligent and methodical when determining which concepts are vital and which are trivial in the search request.
Our search and analysis experts engage with you in critical instances that call for your particular attention and expertise. Should our internal discussions on a certain concept not bring about a unanimous conclusion, we consult you at the soonest possible time.

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