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  Do you know why businesses take patent invalidity/validity search services ? The patent invalidity search services are performed for businesses that want to defend themselves from licensing, infringement, or some other scenario. This kind of search also helps businesses at the time of acquisition and mergers and valuation or licensing. Now let us know what Patent Invalidity Search is. The patent invalidation mainly deals with insightful analysis of all the relevant documents before filing the granted patent. The procedure indulges related prior art documents to invalidate granted patent. Patent invalidation is mainly utilized as a defensive tool when an organization is concerned about the infringement of a specific patent. There are various circumstances for which an invalidation search needs to be performed.  In some scenarios, if a patent infringer is endangered, the infringer might opt for invalidation to overcome the damages enforced on the infringer. But, in other...

  As the business enhances, competitive analysis becomes much crucial. Most organizations conduct competitive analysis at the product, company, or strategic business levels.   Due to its advantages, it can be applied to all the business. Moreover, the aim of a competitive analysis is widespread, yet most famous for the start-up and an established company. What is Competitive Analysis?   Competitive analysis is a strategy through which a business recognizes main competitors and researches their sales, products, and marketing strategies. With competitive analysis, a company can create robust strategies for which makes them ahead of their competitors. It helps in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors. Additionally, it assists the business in creating a refined strategy.   Importance of conducting Competitive Analysis: ·               Provides an understanding of how ...

  Most organizations nowadays have recognized the value of taking the patents on the inventions before launching a product. Getting the patents of your invention adds value to the bottom line by enhancing intangible assets and providing your company with big-headed rights. The patent mainly enhances the power of your company in the marketplace and stops your competitors from using your invention without permission. Less obvious but equally important are the advantages of product clearance, also known as Freedom to Operate. FTO analysis incorporates recognizing and analyzing patents of others that might subject your organization to patent-infringement liability. Performing FTO analysis before launching and developing a product or acquiring a new company, your organization can avoid the risk of future litigation and minimize unnecessary expense. The FTO analysis done early in the stage of product development affords the company to change the design and reduce infringement. Des...

  Market intelligence is the information or data derived by any organization from its market or the market the company plans to enter. This information helps make decisions about market segmentation, market opportunities, market metrics, and market penetration knowledge. Market intelligence is undeniably an essential aspect of understanding the market's current state and its related prospects. Along with this, the study helps to get an idea about competitor intelligence. This knowledge, in turn, aids in gaining a competitive edge in the targeted market. Practical marketing intelligence efforts can lead to increased ROI and improved campaigns. The term is often confused with two different business-related studies, business intelligence, and marketing research. Marketing research focuses entirely on an organization's efforts to gain clarity into business campaigns without considering external factors. On the other hand, Business intelligence focuses on gathering data across vari...

Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis is an elaborated search strategy to ascertain that a particular product, service, or service is not infringing on the existing patent(s) owned by others. This search affirms whether the product is commercially considered ‘safe.’ for launching in a particular market and does not violate existing third-party rights.   An FTO search includes screening a broad range of documents, including expired and expired patents.   The team conducts the FTO search for a prospected innovation at various stages till its commercialization. The search for patent documents that are potential threats is either completed once or often during the product/innovation development cycle. Different IP Counsels base the decision to go for a one-time FTO search or recurring FTO search on several factors. The main determining factor for this decision-making is the speculated time required for the product’s research and commercialization. In general, the products or feat...

  Technology scouting's primary goal is to help small and medium-sized businesses identify emerging innovations , channel tech-related data into the organization, and promote inexperienced technology in a corporate setting. At Ingenious e-Brain, we combine our knowledge, analysis, and tried-and-true processes to map out the innovations that will influence your business. Here are few tips to help you become a technology scout : 1. Identification of Emerging technology:  Understand prevalent technologies and products in the domain identify new technology opportunities that the company has not tapped into. 2. Gathering Information from information sources:  Choose the sources of knowledge and the tools to use. Formal and informal sources of information may be distinguished. Informal sources are particularly useful for detecting discontinuities and high-level areas of technical change. Formal sources have the advantage of allowing automated knowledge searches, such as databas...

Companies and individuals take aggressive steps to protect their patent rights. Most often, if a patent holder discovers that a product or a process is disrupting his patent rights, he might face damages from the infringing party. Such implementation of patent rights is usual in developed economies, such as the US and Europe. However, even India has seen its share of attempts to enforce patent rights. Generally, one may recognize that his product may be infringing on a patent(s) by carrying out the freedom to operate study (our article on the freedom to operate) and an infringement analysis (our article on infringement analysis). Contrarily, a patent holder might have informed you that your product is infringing his patent and asks you to stop all activities relating to the infringing product. So the question now is how you found out? Some of the best practices which we adopt to locate products & standards are as follows:   Search based on Potential Infringer List of...