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Infringement analysis helps patent holders determine if a product, process, or service violates their patent rights. Also, infringement analysis helps companies associated with a product, process, or service, determine if they are violating the rights of any patent.
We not only identify potential infringers for your patent but also identify companies that may not be infringing on the patent but may be potential targets for licensing your patent.We understand the criticality of infringement search and analysis for companies and address the same by adopting a detailed approach to providing infringement opinions. Our approach for identifying infringement is divided into two steps:
We identify the potential infringing company and corresponding product(s) for your patent.
We provide you with an Evidence of Use (EoU) chart for the same with detailed claim mapping with the infringing product, process, or service.
Evidence of Use Charts
EoU chart or Claim Chart for a patent is a detailed analysis of the patent's claims and their mapping with the features of a target product or with elements of another patent. Claim charts provide the technical evidence required to strengthen your litigation or patent licensing activities.
These charts helped Attorneys to prove infringement in a court of law. Claim charts/EoU Charts may consist of text and graphical mapping between the independent claim of the patent and the target product/service/technology. If the patent owner determines to license the patent assets, proof of patent infringement can help strengthen the terms of the sale.Anuation has a team of researchers and experienced experts in subject matters. Our team of researchers are from various technological backgrounds and belongs to the HITECH sector and Engineering domain. Also, they possess an excellent blend of technical and legal expertise. We are known for comprehensive and accurate technical analysis and in-depth patent research support.
While preparing the charts, our experts use the information available on white paper, product manuals & brochures, technical & geometrical specifications, videos, the company's official blog, the company's website, and technical journals by the target company. In some complex matters, the whole internet presence of the target product/service/company is checked. We have also prepared successful charts on Technology standards and helped our clients gain an advantage. Our technology experts unearth the best evidence in the process for the client/attorney to use in every stage of courtroom litigation. We understand the patent litigation process, and our experts work with attorneys around the clock to help them win.
Patent Invalidity Searches
Invalidity search is the most demanded service by our clients. It's an easy and convenient process to avoid litigation, though preparing invalidity search reports may not be an easy task. Many big companies/corporates prefer this solution to settle the matter in courtrooms.
Searching for an exact patent or Non-patent references to invalidate the granted patent is a very complex task. We have a dedicated team assigned for the invalidity search services. We prepare in-depth reports, and our focus is to provide evidence against both independent and dependent claims. We use various paid and fee databases, so we don't miss any important references. We also provide our dedicated focus on not patent literature. In several cases, we have succeeded to invalidate the patent through Non-patent literature. We have a subscription to multiple scientific literature databases. We are known to prepare litigation-grade search reports. We helped our clients in avoiding undesired lawsuits through our high-grade search reports.Though invalidity search may be a complex task, our expert team, access to databases, our proven method of search, and our dedication is something through which we always come up with the soundest results and help our client in decision making.
Patent Portfolio Categorization
Big corporations tend to have a very large patent portfolio. It demonstrates their R&D capability. Even startups today file for hundreds of patents, and it is no wonder if a comparatively new company possesses multiple patents on various technologies.
It is considered a good practice to manage and categorize the patent portfolio according to some parameters like technology domain, complexity, claim types, and many others. The technology domain is the most popular parameter to categorize the large patent portfolio.Patent portfolio categorization is proven very useful when corporate decide to license their patents, use their patents in any lawsuit, or start a new product/research. Patent portfolio categorization can be an ongoing process.
At Anuation, we are known to provide custom-made solutions according to client requirements.
Freedom To Operate Searches
Our team of domain experts are well-trained to draw various levels of analytics from the thousands of patents filed worldwide. Freedom to Operate (FTO) search is conducted to mitigate the risks of infringement of patents in a particular region/country so that one can take a particular action, like launching, developing, or producing a product, without infringing the IP rights of others.
to At Anuation, region/country-specific comprehensive FTO searches are conducted by technical experts having extensive patent search experience along with various patent search strategies, wherein pending patent applications, as well as granted patents, are analyzed.Potential Buyer Identification
Potential buyer reports are the reports specifically designed to guide the customer about licensing and monetizing activities. A detailed list of potential buyers for the patent/patent portfolio is provided in the report along with the relevant key contacts. The report provides jurisdiction vise guidance, which helps the inventors to reach out to the most relevant company for finding buyers/investors for the patent/patent application.
All the potential buyers are arranged in the order priority vise, and a brief support/argument is provided to explain why they should buy or invest in the patent/patent portfolio and which product/service/technology of theirs would be benefitted from the patent/patent portfolio. This report can be very useful for individual inventors/small companies.Patent Valuation
Deciding on a value for an intangible asset is not an easy process. With our customized list of parameters and formulation techniques, we can provide an optimal value for your intellectual property. A patent valuation can be a complex and tedious task, and if we talk about the patent portfolio, it is even more complex.
Many parameters should be taken care of when deciding the value of a patent portfolio like the remaining life of patents, citations, claims, file wrapper, and most important the technology area. Evaluating a patent portfolio includes a long-going technical analysis of patents.At Anuation, patent portfolio evaluation includes two phases. The first phase includes automated analysis and ranking a patent on various parameters. This is done by our proprietary tool. In the second phase a team of analysts manually analyzes the patent portfolio and decides the technology scope and claim importance. We have our standard mythology for this procedure. Once this analysis is completed the outcome is combined with the automated rank that was generated previously.
This is done for every patent in the portfolio, and the individual value of the patent is also calculated. After this whole procedure, all the data are combined to decide the final valuation of the patent portfolio. If necessary, the patent portfolio should be divided into a pool of sub-portfolios for better monetization purposes.
It can be a complex and long procedure but at Anuation patent evaluation is done with confidence and precision because of our developed standards and methodology. So you can trust us in monetizing your patent portfolio with the best value.
Competitor Analysis
Competitor Analysis reports are useful for those who want to explore the facts related to the research and development activities of the competitors. From R&D data, a clear insight can be gained about how much money is being spent on research in which particular domain. Any company, at some stage, requires to know about what its competitors are up to.
The patent can be a very important tool to extract R&D data in almost any field and any technology. We provide customized reports which cover the Current IP practice, patenting trend, expenditure, R&D facts, techno legal affairs, and other important parameters over a specific company. A report can be prepared to target one company or multiple companies depending on the client's requirements.These reports can be very useful while making decisions related to investment, merger, and acquisition of any company or in making decisions related to R&D activities. Startups can use IP reports as a tool to know the activities related to Research and Development carried out in the subject field by competitors.
Anuation has expertise in Patent Analytics, and you can rely on us when you need assistance in making your decision related to your R&D activities.