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When is the right time to implement a new idea?

When is the right time to implement a new idea?
The answer to this question depends on many factors and in particular on the additional question “Is it new or does it already exist?” And if the idea already exists, “How can I use my idea after all?” or “How can I specifically benefit from the knowledge that my competitors have about my idea?”
In answering your questions, we come into play by providing you with the necessary information.

We carry out patent searches as well as targeted specialist searches in all IP areas. We have professional tools and databases available to carry out your orders.

With our commented and clearly structured search reports resulting from a patent search, we can provide you with detailed information on the claims in which and where in the description you will find hits. With this established approach, we make it easier for you to make decisions about how to move forward with your idea.

Search types

We offer for you

 

Patent search on the state of the art

Prior art searches are carried out with different goals. For example, the state of the art for a subject area can be searched in order to assess the chances of a patent application being granted, to collect material for your own development work (information search), or to get a broad overview of a technology area (overview search).


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The services are specified when the order is placed. The main focus is on the goal of the search, e.g. a targeted search for individual technical features or a broad search for an overview. Of course, all information is treated as strictly confidential. The search is carried out worldwide in the available patent full texts or machine translations. In addition, the graphics of the documents are evaluated. In the chemical and pharmaceutical sector, there are also special sources of information. In addition to the data records determined, the search report contains a tabular overview with detailed comments.

Patent search for novelty

For a specific invention idea, the chance of a successful patent application is examined.


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The aim of the search is to identify patent documents or literature that enables to assess the chances of a successful patent application (novelty of the invention). The starting point of the search is an invention disclosure or a description of the search subject provided by you. Of course, all information is treated as strictly confidential.
The search is carried out worldwide in the available patent full texts or machine translations. In addition, the graphics of the documents are evaluated. In the chemical and pharmaceutical sector, there are also special sources of information. In addition, depending on the subject, literature databases and Research Disclosure (Derwent Data) can also be included in the search. In addition to the data records determined, the search report contains a tabular overview with detailed comments and an assessment of the relevance.

Patent search for opposition / invalidity

An opposition can be filed against already granted patents within a certain period of time after the announcement of the grant in order to reexamine the granted patent. After this period, an action for annulment can be brought before a patent court. The patent will be revoked in whole or in part if important prerequisites for its grant are not met. In particular, this is the case if it can be demonstrated by the submission of patent documents that the claimed invention was already evident beforehand.



The aim of the search is to identify patent documents which reveal a state of the art that enables an objection or an action for annulment against an existing patent. The starting point of the search are the relevant individual features of the search subject. Of course, all information is treated as strictly confidential. The search is carried out worldwide in the available patent full texts or machine translations. The graphics of the documents are also evaluated. In the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors, there are also special sources of information. In addition to the data records determined, the search report contains a tabular overview with detailed comments. In addition, we can also produce a corresponding claim chart on request, which allows you to have an quick overview via an analysis of characteristics.

Patent search for FTO analyzes

Third-party property rights that could possibly be infringed are sought for a specific product or process. Upon agreement, the search can also be expanded to include a search for free prior art.


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The aim of the search is to identify patent documents that could potentially infringe your product or process. This allows you to protect yourself against potential patent infringement proceedings before a product is launched. The starting point of the search is a concrete description of the product or the underlying process, as well as the indispensable features. Of course, all information is treated as strictly confidential.

The search is carried out worldwide in the available patent full texts or machine translations. The graphics of the documents are also evaluated. In the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors, there are also special sources of information.
In addition to the data records determined, the search report contains a tabular overview with detailed comments.

Patent-Monitoring

Stay informed! Monitoring provides important support for decision-making. Is it worth buying a patent portfolio? Is it worth buying a company? How is the IP value of a competitor defined? For all of these questions and more, the monitoring search strings provide the appropriate answer. Knowing how the market is developing is invaluable to stay competitive. Where do competitors applicate, how diversified are patent families, how extensive is the protection of applications, how many applications are granted? Good and individually adapted monitoring can answer all of these questions.

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You will receive the reports in text form or as a table, whichever is most suitable for your analysis. With our databases and tools, we can provide you patentlandscape displays. Contact us.

Patentlandscaping

Data visual representation is ubiquitous. No news broadcast, no annual report and hardly a Powerpoint presentation for management can do without them. But was really behind the hype about data visualization? Many users are disappointed because they cannot get the desired information from the bar graphs, bubble charts and patent landscapes. Or even worse: you think you can draw a conclusion from the visualization and it ultimately turns out to be wrong. We will help you to gain useful information from visualization in the field of “patents and technologies”. The ambition of visualizing broader technical areas is to discover new areas that have not been considered before! For example, new applications for a technology can be found or patterns in the patent portfolio of a competitor can be uncovered.

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You get the reports in visual representations that are most suitable for your analysis.

Legal status/Litigation

Digitisation is advancing and increasingly difficult judgments are being made in the IP area. With our access to relevant databases, we can search for you, among other things, in over 2 million trademark law cases and over 1.3 million patent law cases. As a supplement to your patent search, it is invaluable to find out in which country and/ or which patent family proceedings are pending. It is also not to be underestimated how the case law in a certain area of industrial property protection is developing.

Patent families

An invention is often applicated as patent in several countries. If there are several applications for an invention claiming the same priority (application data of the original application), then one speaks of a patent family. A patent family search serves to identify all members of such a patent family worldwide. The search is carried out worldwide, using the expanded family definition with multiple priorities as a basis. In addition to the data records found, the search report contains a tabular overview with detailed comments. The current legal status can be determined on request.

Designs

A relatively young, but increasingly considered field is given to designs. Not only in the automotive industry, but also in all other areas of daily life, the desire for extensive, wide-ranging protection is spreading. A design does not honor the inventive level of your product, but the creative creativity of your designer. We know how to use the professional databases with our experience and would like to provide you with your tailor-made search answer here as well. We would be pleased to discuss with you whether a brand or design search is more effective in your specific case. Sounds trival, but it is not always trivial.

Trademarks

We encounter brands everywhere in everyday life. In the consumer goods sector in particular, every conceivable product is given its own name and protected through registration and entry of a trademark. In order to find our way in this jungle, we use our many years of experience in the field of brands and designs to filter out any third-party brands that may be relevant for you. We have a wide range of options for this. Contact us.

Literature

Search in the international specialist literature will help you to get the right information about your current research topics. Special databases for various areas allow targeted search, whereby searches for structures, sequences, special materials and substances are also possible here. Normally, in the field of specialist literature, these are abstract databases. As a result you get the bibliographical data (title, author, source, etc.) and mostly an English summary.


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We would be happy to assist you in obtaining the original literature. In addition to searching the specialist literature databases, we also search for you in freely accessible sources or directly in the libraries of the Rhine-Neckar region. In this way, sources that are otherwise difficult to find, such as specialist books, microfilms or older documents, can be made accessible for opposition search.

Multi Media Material

When it comes to oppositions in particular, people often look for a needle in a haystack in order to find documents that can be used against a patent. In highly competitive technologies it is necessary to tap all available sources to find watertight material. Information from the Internet such as Wikipedia, blogs, forums and film material, e.g. on YouTube, can also be very valuable if a computer-generated date for the time creation of the entry can be clearly assigned. There is also an increasing trend towards video citations in the examination departments of the patent offices, such as the EPO. Here, too, we offer the service of searching and also, for example, processing film material and other Internet sources as usable citation for you.

Chemical structures

Chemistry plays a role in patents almost everywhere, both the classic subareas of “organic” and “inorganic” chemistry. Many similar areas are related thereby, such as polymer chemistry, for example in the production of plastics, physical chemistry in the optimization of manufacturing processes, process engineering and pharmaceutical chemistry, to name just a few areas. Depending on the wide range of questions, a search for chemical structures as well as a keyword search or a search for patent classification or indexing can be the most sensible way. It is certainly much cheaper to carry out a solid search at the beginning of the development than to find out later when filing a patent application that the in-house development is already known or falls under a generic claim of the competition. Discuss your chemical question with us. Professional search secures your research investment!

Biosequences

Biosequences can be patented per se if they are the result of technically applied processes and are produced outside the human body. Would you like to develop an antibody and, for example, vary certain amino acids in the VH region of an antibody in different ways? We help you with such complex questions and we will search sequences, partial sequences on DNA and proteins for you in various databases, both in public and commercial databases. We use the combination of these databases to provide you with results that are as complete as possible. We are currently using Patsnap Pte.Ltd’s bioplatform as the preferred source. We prepare the results with sequence alignments and comments so that you can precisely localize the determined sequences, e.g. in pharmaceutical large scaled patents.

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