Patent and IPR Solutions

Our patent analyst will carefully look into the subject matter of your
invention and scrutinize to find whether the invention is already available to
public. Our patent analyst will also provide critical legal opinion on the
invention for further precedence.
Einfolges team has in-depth expertise in IP information and research to
assist you in specific areas of patent research.
Our approach has been carefully shaped to take advantage of our unique
combination of strategic insight, deep industry expertise and technology.

Our Patent Research Services are:

Patentability Search

State-of-art Search

Validation / Invalidation Study

Infringement Study

Freedom to Operate (FTO) Search

Accelerated Examination Search

Patentability Search
Our patentability search involves searching
the prior art, which includes published patent applications, issued patents,
and any other published documents in light of your invention, with the aim of
determining whether your patent application is worth pursuing based on the
patentability aspects of the inventive concept. The basic purpose of a
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patentability search is to better assess the likelihood of securing patent

protection for an invention.
This search answers the questions like your idea is truly novel or not, has it
already been patented, has it been anticipated or rendered obvious. Since
the cost of preparing, filing and prosecuting or attempting to prosecute a
patent application is substantial, the search suggests will it be worth the cost
to file a patent at all for the idea and will it be worth the effort and expense
to fully develop and market your concept.
This search not only makes the application process easier but also helps to
strengthen the invention against issues of validity. The search report includes
relevant patent and non-patent prior art references listed in a comprehensive
manner. Patent search is conducted using public and subscribed patent
databases that cover patents from around the globe. Non-patent literature
search is conducted in the relevant technology domain using scientific
databases.

State-of-art Search
Our State of the Art Search is designed to provide up-to-date information and
progress in a specific technical field. It is the broadest of all patent searches
which also provides an overall perspective of a particular technical field and
is typically conducted prior to making a patent application, or prior to
amendment of an existing patent application.
This search involves a comprehensive review of all patent and non-patent
literature thereby allowing client to update with the state of the art that
exists already in a particular technology and
then to build on it. It will also allow a company
to spot new competitors and to identify new
technological trends. Our State of the art
search will help in making informed decisions
in determining the direction for steering the
R&D and prior to making further investments,
mergers and acquisitions.
Our state of art searches will also help you to
make informed decisions, before incurring
additional costs in relation to your patent

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strategies. This search includes all issued patent, published patents and
other publications.

Validation / Invalidation Study

Validity /Invalidity Study are executed post issuances i.e. grant of
patent
We run an exhaustive prior art search on the claims features. The purpose of
the validity/invalidity search is either to validate the enforceability of a
patents claims or to invalidate one or more claims of a patent respectively.
These two searches are identical except for the desired outcome (valid or
invalid patent claims) of the search. The search is restricted to a cut-off date
determined from the priority date of the target patent. This is an extensive
search of patents, technical publications and/or any other available written
materials that may be relevant to the patented invention. All publicly
available documents or evidence of public disclosure prior to the filing of the
target patent are analyzed.
A validity search is requested even when no lawsuit has been filed, to
identify potential attackers and/or references that challenge the presumption
of validity of a subject patent. This study is helpful in determining the validity
of a patents claims prior to licensing
agreement, royalty negotiations and patent
valuations. Invalidity study is mainly used as
a defensive tool against alleged infringement
by invalidating claims of the infringed patent.

Infringement Study
Our Infringement study helps in estimating
the risk of patent infringement before
developing, producing, and marketing your
product.
Einfolge Technologies provides Patent Infringement Searches to locate any
unexpired patents whose claims read on the product features. The goal of
this study is to uncover patents with claims that could represent an
infringement risk to a new product, and the search should take place before
the product is released to market. Infringement searches may also cover
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expired patent art, and sometimes non-patent sources such as product

literature.
The Infringement study can be product- to- patent mapping or patent- topatent mapping depending on the immediate targets. This study helps in
estimating the risk of patent infringement before developing, producing, and
marketing a product, and also figure out the competitors patent coming in
your way and invalidate it.

Freedom to Operate (FTO) Search

Freedom to operate searches, also known as Clearance Search or Right to
Use Search identifies potential patent barriers to the commercialization of
products or technologies.
We identify published applications and unexpired patents (in a specific
jurisdiction or worldwide) containing claims that could possibly indicate a risk
of infringement by an inventive product or process of the client. The
product/process features are mapped against the claim features of relevant
patent references that are in-force in order to determine the degree of
freedom to operate without infringing on existing patents.

Accelerated Examination Search

We provide pre-examination searches as per the guidelines of the USPTOs
Accelerated Examination Program. An Accelerated Examination requires the
applicant to submit a pre-examination search document (PESD) and an
accelerated examination support document (AESD) to illustrate how the
claims of an application are allowable over known related art.
We search in all the prescribed resources
and our report comprises all search
related information in accordance with
USPTO requirements, and organize our
deliverable for easy review and ensures
fast and affirmative response from the
patent examiner prosecuting your
application.
This search helps in significantly reducing
the total cost and time frame for obtaining
a patent. The accelerated examination search also proved to be useful for
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technologies with short lifetime, rapidly growing portfolios and to get

coverage in a new technology in time to establish a position.

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