This is the first search required to decide resource allocation and optimize spending on assessment of your concept for a patent process. In your patent prosecution practice you may come across thousands of inventions that require your attention to analyze whether it is feasible to file your patent application or not. For prosecution heavy patent practices, we have developed solutions where our job is to quickly locate the glaring results in the domain of search and also present a macro view of the state of the art. Such price sensitive studies at a very early stage i.e. invention submission stage, can help in forming a strategy to go for the patent application. This type of search is a precursor to plan the allocation of resources if the invention needs to be further evaluated for patent application drafting. It is important to note that this search does not represent a full scope patentability search.

Patentability searches are comprehensive analysis of the prior art to find the best structure for your claims. Such searches closely resemble the solution of quick-view novelty searches, however, they are designed to identify relevant prior art by conducting a thorough search on each feature of the technology to be claimed (independent and dependent claims). This search presents you with information about the prior art that will create challenges during the grant of patent claims on novelty, inventive step and obviousness surrounding the invention.  Our analysis and search reports have helped attorneys improve the grant rate of patents by focusing the discussion between the attorneys & examiners on what is the ‘inventive step’ and has marked an improvement on the grant rate. Our searches help patent attorneys to correctly phrase the abstract, description, claims and other critical parts of the patent application document.