Systematic FTO (as opposed to unspecific landscape FTOs) with defined milestones and calculated risk/level of confidence for the infringing patents of third parties.
The calculated risk/level of confidence can be increased in a well defined steps in order to match a budget.
‘Colourful’ Landscape FTOs can potentially burn you! They can give you some random hits and sometime even some relevant patents but this will not result in a systematic approach.
There is no way we can increase the level of confidence after the landscape FTO. The quality of these hand-crafted artworks depends largely on the experience and skills of the person who does that landscape FTOs. These skilled people will become rarer/harder to find because the industry is moving towards automation.
And eventually, what you get are cookie-cutter colourful landscape FTOs
The Systematic FTO is delivered in a 3-step process.
We will typically request for client’s input to identify, from the search results, groups of publications that we should pay special attention to. From there we will request further budgets to analyse the specific publications individually.
Curious about our services? Find the questions to your answers here.
We follow a three step process.
Generally, we analyze the product of interest and identify the key technological features. A “technological feature” here is a separable technological unit which may in itself be patentable based on our assessment. We identify a prioritized list of such technological features and then confirm with the client as to which ones they want to include in the FTO search/analysis.
For the headphone example in the questionnaire, the technical feature would be:
A method of controlling operation (e.g. media player actions) of a computing device based on control signals received over a short range communication (e.g. Bluetooth) from a wearable device (e.g. headphone) comprising orientation/motion sensors.
Note: Any patent rights associated with the sensors, BLE and headphones are assumed to be exhausted as a result of purchase.
As another example, assume the product is a drone that operates based on voice commands and automatically switches onto an auto-pilot mode when it detects incompetency (e.g. indicated by stress, unclear speech and so on) based on voice analysis.
We break this down to the following features:
1. Automatically switching from manual to automatic based on analysis of user
commands
a. the manual/auto modes correspond to a flying machine (i.e. drone)
b. based on speech analysis
2. Identifying operator incompetency based on analysis of user commands
a. based on speech analysis
3. Operating a drone based on voice commands (involves speech recognition)
4. Drone technology including wireless
Based on other considerations (e.g. what off-the shelf components the client uses that exhausts corresponding patent rights and other existing license agreements etc.), we may short list 1 and 2 from the above list and proceed further.
We will perform extensive searching of patent literature in the jurisdiction of interest (e.g. US, EU, etc.). The search will be based on several strategies such as key classification, keywords, key competitors and so on.
Relevant references identified in the search will be thoroughly analysed based on the independent and dependent claims.
The analysis will be performed based on the claims, detailed description, drawings and the prosecution history (wherever applicable).
Deliverables:
Note: The deliverable for essential version includes all items except the claim charts.
– IP Professionals
– Legal Practitioners
– In-house Counsels
– Any technologists at heart
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We deliver within two (2) working days, or less. If we take longer to deliver, then you pay nothing.
*No discussion with inventors, no added subject matter beyond original invention disclosure, no amendments of our draft (except if it is for correcting any mistakes done by us).