Wherever our clients are in the design and development life cycle, we meet them where they are and offer valuable counsel to optimize their IP protection.
We take a comprehensive approach to patent analysis so clients can make critical decisions including:
- Assess patentability to gauge if the subject matter of an invention disclosure will likely be considered patentable.
- Conduct detailed searches to evaluate whether the technology described in a disclosure is useful, novel, and non-obvious.
- Perform validity searches to find prior art that was not considered by the examiner during prosecution of the patent application and offer validity opinions to determine if a patent is in-force and assess the scope of the claims.
- Analyze the claims to identify any enablement or written description issues in claims.
- Prepare non-infringement opinions for clients who need to distinguish a product from claims of a third-party patent.
- Conduct investigations to render freedom to operate opinions regarding whether a product or process made available by our client would infringe the valid and enforceable rights of a third party.
- Provide suggestions for avoiding potential infringement by modifying the product or process (if the investigation is conducted in the late design stage).
