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When time is money, it’s good to know you can turn to a U.S.-based ITAR Compliant team of innovation experts for patent research. Our experts will help you clear product features, perform patent searches in support of the prosecution, detect patent infringement, find prior art to aid in answering demand letters and assess opportunities in the patent landscape. Prepare for patent prosecution with a team experienced in advanced search technologies, classification searching, and industry-specific terminology. Working with our professional services team reduces the time needed for accurate analyses.
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InnovationQ+™
InnovationQ+ is an innovation and IP decision support workflow solution packed with powerful data analytics and competitive insights that enable informed, rapid decisions throughout the lifecycle—reducing costs, maximizing ROI, and accelerating innovation.
Patent Vitality Report
The Patent Vitality Report (PVR) gives patent owners, buyers, and sellers an objective analysis of the assets in a patent portfolio. It provides valuable patent analysis in five understandable scores: overall strength, litigation risk, monetization potential, new technology value, and patent quality.
Patentability Search Services
Our search professionals use Patentability Search services to help you discover and identify all art published before an invention, along with documentation with citations and excerpts from all references found.
Freedom to Operate Services
Our Freedom to Operate (FTO) patent search service helps identify potential patent barriers to commercializing your products or technologies. An FTO search aims to identify in-force patents or published patent applications with claims that cover the technology, process, or product you are targeting.
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From the Desk of Customer Success
The June 7 InnovationQ+ release adds expanded litigation filters, richer case details, new claims syntax fields, and an improved search history export for more precise patent research.
The Quiet Assumption Behind Every Patent Filing: USPS Just Works
The procedure your firm follows is unchanged. The system that procedure relies on is not. And somewhere in that gap, between a compliance culture built for one network and a postal infrastructure actively restructuring into another, is where filings start getting lost.
250,000 Patents and Counting: Why Patent Thickets Are Now an R&D Problem
A modern smartphone is reportedly covered by as many as 250,000 active patents. A quarter of a million overlapping protections, touching everything from the antenna and battery chemistry to the way a finger swipes across a screen, sit between any new device and the consumer who buys it. That is not a competitive moat. That is a minefield. And it has a name: a patent thicket.
