Validity/Invalidity Search
The [In]Validity hunt is an earlier abstraction inquiry directed when a patent issues. The [In]Validity hunt helps in identifying a reference that can be utilized in opposition to the patent which is under examination to announce it as invalid. Invalidity analysis is one of the most critical tasks in IPR industry where the objective is to crack a target patent from negotiation point of view. [In]Validity analysis reports prepared by our team help our clients in the following ways:
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The report provides high quality claim chart describing mapping of the pertinent text extracted from identified prior art references.
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The report content is full in technical nature which helps attorney to take decisions confidently.
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The report provides the relevant bibliographic details for the shortlisted prior art references for quick analysis.
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The report includes a detailed prosecution history analysis for identifying the disclaimers stated by the applicants during the prosecution phase.
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The report also covers the various issues like enablement issues, antecedent issues to make the claim chart more valuable.
In order to provide a high quality claim chart report, the team performs the search on various patent databases (Delphion, USPTO, EPO, Freepatentsonline etc.) and non-patent databases (like IEEE, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect etc.) to identify the prior art references for invalidating the patent under study.