Our Evidence of Use Search studies provide a comprehensive analysis of market data, patents, and technical literature and map this information to products, services, and standards in use to help you identify potential infringement of your patents, better protect your IP, and assist with your litigation and licensing.
THE PROCESS
The tenured experts at IP.com® will work with you to understand your patented technologies and search for competitors engaging in similar, potentially infringing activities, as well as identify new opportunities and companies you may not be aware of for licensing or enforcement of your critical intellectual property.
This can put you in a better position to seek licenses, enforce your patents, or consider a potential acquisition, sale, merger, or divestiture.
Limiting potential infringing activity
Our team of experts focuses the search on the critical elements of your claims, mapping each piece or limitation to the potential infringing activity. Product brochures, website descriptions, and other information are considered along with the competitors’ patents to form a more complete picture of potentially infringing activity. We’ll work with you to understand how products on the market may infringe upon your patents and focus our search efforts based on your interpretation of your claimed invention and its scope.
Evidence of Use Studies are ideal for:
- Assisting with enforcement strategies related to your patents, such as sending demand letters and engaging in litigation
- Identifying potential licensees for your patented technologies
- Considering an acquisition, sale, merger, or divestiture related to your patent portfolio
- Understanding the value of your patents
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Evidence of Use News & Resources
The Government’s Grab for University Patents: Why Innovation Is at Risk
When government tries to claw back revenue from federally funded research, it risks choking off the very innovation pipeline it set out to create. History shows that discoveries like MRI and CRISPR only reached patients because universities were empowered—through the Bayh–Dole Act—to patent their breakthroughs and partner with industry. Undermining that framework today would not just alter the flow of money, it would jeopardize the next wave of life-saving technologies.
Why China’s “Global AI Plan” Puts Your IP in the Crosshairs, And Why You Should Care.
July 2025 wasn’t just busy; it was highly choreographed. Washington rolled out America’s AI Action Plan, a sweeping blueprint to speed U.S. AI build-out and push allied standards abroad. Days later at WAIC in Shanghai, Beijing unveiled its Action Plan for Global Governance of AI.
America’s AI Action Plan: What It Means for “Woke AI” and the Future of Innovation
The White House has rolled out its AI Action Plan—a sweeping, 90+ point blueprint designed to accelerate U.S. AI development, cut through infrastructure red tape, and sharpen America’s competitive edge on the world stage. Tucked between the big-ticket items like R&D funding and deregulation is one provision grabbing most of the headlines: a new executive order requiring AI systems used by federal agencies to be ideologically neutral.
