Infringement Search is performed in order to find whether a product or a technology infringes upon an existing patent claim. We at Antlia Research help our clients to find infringement evidence by mapping relevant patent claim elements to specific features of target products.
We have extensive in-house capabilities to perform technical evaluation of products and devices to look for evidence of use of the patented technology.
At Antlia, Infringement Analysis is conducted in the following phases:
- Quick Infringement Search
- Detailed Infringement Search Analysis
QUICK INFRINGEMENT SEARCH ANALYSIS – RANKING THE PATENTS BASED ON INFRINGEMENT PROBABILITY.
- Patent Understanding (covering broadest embodiment of the invention)
- Selecting the broadest claim of the patent for Infringement search
- Performing quick search on a broadest claim to confirm infringement
- Ranking the patents with infringement levels as:
v Level 1 (Likely Infringing)
v Level 2 (May be Infringing)
v Level 3 (Unlikely Infringing
*NOTE: Rating the interest level as Level 1 to Level 3 (“Level 1” being the highest)
Final Deliverable Details: - Patent details (Patent Number, Claims, Abstract, Assignee, Priority date, Inventor, Publication date, Filling date, Est. Expiration Date etc.)
- Analyst comments
- Patent Ranking with infringement levels
DETAILED INFRINGEMENT SEARCH ANALYSIS – DETAILED SEARCH FOR IDENTIFYING INFRINGING COMPANIES AND THEIR INFRINGING PRODUCTS.
- Patent Understanding (covering every embodiment of the invention)
- File wrapper Analysis for the subject patent (Discovering exact novelty)
- Selecting the broadest claim of the patent for Infringement search
- Selecting the broadest claim of the patent for Infringement search
- Shortlisting competitors and bigger players (in the same domain as our subject patent)
- Performing a detailed search for each competitor products to confirm Infringement
- Shortlisting the Infringing products
Final Deliverable Details: - Patent details (Patent Number, Claims, Abstract, Assignee, Priority date, Inventor, Publication date, Filling date)
- List of companies searched
- Analyst comments with product limitations (if any)
- Identified infringing companies along with details of their infringing products
The experts at Antlia Research offer structural and customized patent mining services to a wide variety of clients across different industries. We identify the strongest (STAR) patents having highest licensing and revenue by sale potential from your diversified patent portfolio.
Clients have used our services in effective patent portfolio management/optimization for not only identifying ‘gems’ and making millions in revenue but also for selling and abandoning their least valuable patents, thereby reducing huge costs in maintaining these patents. At Antlia, we just do not perform automated patent mining, we perform manual analysis with the help of our SME’s (subject matter experts) who understand technology, its ownership and widespread commercialization and apply this knowledge to your IP business strategy to help generate maximum revenue.
