Infringement / Freedom-to-Use / Freedom-to-Operate Search

Establishes whether elements of your product, design, trade mark, or the process that you want to use, are already protected by someone else. This type of search helps to avoid costly legal challenges and misguided product launches. Our report will list publications which you may risk infringing. This list could also help you identify patents or designs to licence, or perhaps change how you develop your product or influence where you manufacture and market.

Patents within the infringement period that are not in force, but which may clear your right-to-use by virtue of being in the public domain, are also reported. We can also provide the legal status for any IP identified. When this type of search is followed up with a validity search against any highly relevant patents identified, it is sometimes referred to in the USA as a 'clearance search'.

For details of our approach to searching please download "Our Approach to Searching"

Our Approach to Searching

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