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Your Early-Warning System Against Potential IP Conflicts

We specialize in assessing the chances of patentability through our quick and focused knock-out search. For prior art search results delivered in less time and at less cost with no compromise to accuracy, trust Legal Advantage LLC.
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A knock-out search is a quick and focused patentability search where patent and non-patent databases are scoured for identical or highly similar prior art.

The goal of a knock-out search is to alert you of likely conflicts and help you avoid any obvious obstacles that may arise in the course of your application. A couple of good references, or often just the best reference, is sufficient to “knock out” the novelty of an invention or render the idea behind it obvious. The turnaround for this preliminary search is much faster than that for a standard patentability/novelty search.

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Legal Advantage LLC specializes in quickly assessing patentability chances for legal and corporate clients across the US and Canada. For more information on knock-out searches and other legal support services relating to IP, contact our office at (301) 637-6180 today.

Our Process

Even though our reports only include one or two references, we conduct our knock-out searches with the same thoroughness and attention to detail we give our patentability searches.

Our experts look for published applications and issued patents in US and foreign patent offices, as well as an array of relevant non-patent literature, including journal articles, scientific reports, magazines, blogs, and forums. We use proven best practices and carefully crafted techniques to get you the most accurate results in less time and at less cost.

Our knock-out search reports are generally short and can be customized to present the information according to the client’s preferences. The document you will receive will primarily list the search concepts, keywords, classification codes, and relevant excerpts from the identified patent or non-patent literature.

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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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