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    Before the Draft: The Novelty Check Every Inventor Skips

    88% of patent applications face a first-action rejection, usually over prior art. This panel discusses how to check novelty at the concept stage, when it still saves money.

    Four IP experts explain how to check an idea’s novelty at the concept stage, before time and money go into a draft that prior art could sink.

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    Establish Prior Art in Minutes. Not Months.

    InnovationQ is the publishing and search interface to the world’s leading Prior Art Database from IP.com. Protect your innovations, block competitors, and defend your freedom to operate, for as little as 2% of the cost of a patent filing.

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    See the full picture of where a technology has been, where it is, and where it’s going.

    Strategic decisions made without a clear view of the patent landscape are made in the dark. Our Patent Landscape service delivers comprehensive, analyst-authored intelligence on the competitive patent environment in a technology area, so executives, technologists, and investors can act with confidence on R&D direction, portfolio strategy, market entry, and competitive positioning.

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    Know where your invention stands before you invest in prosecution.

    Our patentability studies deliver a thorough, defensible prior art analysis conducted by analysts with decades of combined technical and legal experience, so you can file with confidence, advise clients with clarity, and allocate resources where they matter most.

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    Not every idea is worth pursuing. The TVR tells you which ones are.

    The Technology Vitality Report is the gut check that happens before the investment. A scored, sourced patentability assessment in under five minutes, before development, before counsel, before commitment.

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    Not every idea is worth pursuing. The Enhanced TVR tells you which ones are.

    The Enhanced Technology Vitality Report is the gut check that happens before the investment. A scored, sourced patentability assessment in under five minutes, before development, before counsel, before commitment.

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    See how services from IP.com® can enhance your research teams.

    Bring your innovations to market faster! Position your research and development team to increase internal efficiency, reduce outsourcing costs, and improve patentability with solutions from IP.com®. Our world-class Professional Services team speeds up your innovation workflows, completing essential research, analytics, editing, and reporting tasks using industry-leading expertise and our AI-driven solutions.

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    Improve Your Team’s ROI

    Providing AI-powered tools and analytics is one thing, implementing transformative ROI requires the support of an experienced industry partner.

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    Empower Innovation with AI

    Explore AI fundamentals, types, and models. Discover how IP.com’s commitment ensures secure and ethical AI, driving innovation reliably.

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    Your portfolio has high-value assets and low-value ones. Do you know which is which?

    The Portfolio Intelligence Report (PIR) scores every patent in a portfolio against the same 14-factor framework, benchmarked against a dynamically generated peer group of the 100 most comparable patents. The result is a ranked, sortable view of the entire portfolio, so renewal, licensing, enforcement, and divestiture decisions are grounded in data, not intuition.

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    Every patent decision is a financial decision. Make it with data.

    The Patent Vitality Report delivers objective, scored intelligence on any patent, so the decisions that matter most are grounded in data, not intuition. Self-serve and available inside InnovationQ+. Results in minutes, no submission required.

     

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    Drive Smarter IP Decisions with Foundational AI that Amplifies Your Expertise.

    InnovationQ+ helps IP and innovation teams search smarter, uncover deeper insight, and act with confidence — using secure-by-design AI built for decision support.

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    AI-guided workflows take inventors from rough concept to structured disclosure automatically.

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    Know your infringement risk before you go to market.

    Our Freedom to Operate search service delivers a thorough, defensible analysis of in-force third-party patents, so you can make commercialization decisions with full legal awareness and move forward with confidence.

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    Understanding the power of defensive publishing

    Unlock an important component to protecting your ideas and maximizing ROI with our must-read white paper. Learn why defensive publishing is vital for IP management and how to effectively implement this strategy.

     

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    Unleash the Next Gen Ideation and Problem Solving

    CompassAI uniquely solves the reliability risks inherent with open source AI while unleashing new innovation potential delivery of protected and confidential services that our clients expect.

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    Your best IP ideas shouldn’t die in a brainstorm.

    Our products guide your team from rough idea through structured ideation, automated disclosure, and patented novelty scoring; all before you spend a dollar on outside counsel.

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    Lower patentability evaluation costs

    Run a full novelty evaluation in hours, not weeks, without engaging outside counsel first.

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    Faster from idea to evaluation report

    AI-guided workflows take inventors from rough concept to structured disclosure automatically.

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    Exclusive prior art references

    Access a proprietary database not available anywhere else, so your novelty evaluations are built on coverage no competitor can match.

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    Practical Application of Quality Scoring in the PIR Report

    Using IP.com’s Patent Insight Indexes, business managers can obtain the information needed to effectively identify high and low-quality intellectual assets in both their own portfolio and in competitors’ portfolios.

    Download our Patent and Portfolio Intelligence Report!

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    Your best IP ideas shouldn’t die in a brainstorm.

    IQ Ideas+ guides your team from rough idea through structured ideation, automated disclosure, and patented novelty scoring; all before you spend a dollar on outside counsel.

    90%+

    Lower patentability evaluation costs

    Run a full novelty evaluation in hours, not weeks, without engaging outside counsel first.

    80%+

    Faster from idea to evaluation report

    AI-guided workflows take inventors from rough concept to structured disclosure automatically.

    15M+

    Exclusive prior art references

    Access a proprietary database not available anywhere else, so your novelty evaluations are built on coverage no competitor can match.

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