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Patentability and Freedom to Operate searches in the USA and Canada

Patentability search in the USA and Canada

The patentability search is conducted to check whether an invention is patentable or not. It has to be conducted before starting research and development and before making a huge investment of time, money and efforts.

Patentability search in the USA and Canada
Each jurisdiction has its own patent law in determining what can be patented, In the USA and Canada to be patentable the invention must have:

1.       Novelty: Never made public in any way, anywhere, before filing the application of the patent.

2.       Inventive Step: Compared with what is already known, not obvious to the person skilled in the art.

3.    Industrial applicable: Capable of production and making profit in practical, not just an imaginary invention.

For conducting patentability search patent database and non-patent databases are searched.

Advantages of Patentability searches in the USA and Canada

1.       It saves the investments on R&D.

2.       It also saves times and efforts, and also provide proper direction in which direction R&D should be conducted in order to make invention patentable.

Freedomto operate searches in the USA and Canada

The freedom to operate (FTO) search also known as product clearance search or right to use search is a kind of search commonly used to assess patent infringement risk upon new product launch. FTO analysis can save companies from many legal disputes when the search is done in advance specifically before the launch of new product.

The increased amount of patent filing nowadays has made it a basic requirement to have an FTO search conducted before product is manufactured or launched or sold in a specific market. FTO searches are regional, unlike the patentability searches.

It is important to thoroughly check the existing patents to be sure that none of the features of the current application/ invention/ product infringes upon or encroaches upon the already existing patents.

Searches are conducted by searching both patent and non-patent databases are searched.

How InventionIP can assist in Patentability and FTO searches in USA and Canada

We assist inventors, firms and universities globally in their Patentability search and FTO search need, our team has experience in delivering the search reports to our USA and Canada based clients.

We have experts to provide Patentability search and FTO search in all domains of technologies. Our team makes complete understanding of the invention and then gives best possible search results to assist proceeding in filing of patent application or launching

For more information please visit www.inventionIP.com or drop any query at info@inventionip.com
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