Our State of the Art patent search provide up-to-date information and progress in a specific technical field.

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Patent and IPR Solutions
Our patent analyst will carefully look into the subject matter of your invention and
scrutinize to find whether the invention is already available to public. Our patent
analyst will also provide critical legal opinion on the invention for further precedence.
Einfolge’s team has in-depth expertise in IP information and research to assist you in
specific areas of patent research.
Our approach has been carefully shaped to take advantage of our unique
combination of strategic insight, deep industry expertise and technology.
Our Patent Research Services are:
 Patentability Search
 State-of-art Search
 Validation / Invalidation Study
 Infringement Study
 Freedom to Operate (FTO) Search
 Accelerated Examination Search
Patentability Search
Our patentability search involves searching the prior art, which includes published
patent applications, issued patents, and any other published documents in light of
your invention, with the aim of determining whether your patent application is worth

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pursuing based on the patentability aspects of the inventive concept. The basic
purpose of a patentability search is to better assess the likelihood of securing patent
protection for an invention.
This search answers the questions like your idea is truly novel or not, has it already
been patented, has it been anticipated or rendered obvious. Since the cost of
preparing, filing and prosecuting or attempting to prosecute a patent application is
substantial, the search suggests will it be worth the cost to file a patent at all for the
idea and will it be worth the effort and expense to fully develop and market your
concept.
This search not only makes the application process easier but also helps to strengthen
the invention against issues of validity. The search report includes relevant patent and
non-patent prior art references listed in a comprehensive manner. Patent search is
conducted using public and subscribed patent databases that cover patents from
around the globe. Non-patent literature search is conducted in the relevant
technology domain using scientific databases.
State-of-art Search
Our State of the Art Search is designed to provide up-to-date information and
progress in a specific technical field. It is the
broadest of all patent searches which also provides
an overall perspectiveof a particular technical field
and is typically conducted prior to making a patent
application, or prior to amendment of an existing
patent application.
This search involves a comprehensive review of all
patent and non-patent literature thereby allowing
client to update with the state of the art that exists
already in a particular technology and then to build

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on it. It will also allow a company to spot new competitors and to identify new
technological trends. Our State of the art search will help in making informed
decisions in determining the direction for steering the R&D and prior to making
further investments, mergers and acquisitions.
Our state of art searches will also help you to make informed decisions, before
incurring additional costs in relation to your patent strategies. This search includes all
issued patent, published patents and other publications.
Validation / Invalidation Study
Validity /Invalidity Study are executed post issuances i.e. grant of patent
We run an exhaustive prior art search on the claims features. The purpose of the
validity/invalidity search is either to validate the enforceability of a patent’s claims or
to invalidate one or more claims of a patent respectively. These two searches are
identical except for the desired outcome (valid or invalid patent claims) of the search.
The search is restricted to a cut-off date
determined from the priority date of the target
patent. This is an extensive search of patents,
technical publications and/or any other available
written materials that may be relevant to the
patented invention. All publicly available
documents or evidence of public disclosure prior
to the filing of the target patent are analyzed.
A validity search is requested even when no
lawsuit has been filed, to identify potential attackers and/or references that challenge
the presumption of validity of a subject patent. This study is helpful in determining the
validity of a patent’s claims prior to licensing agreement, royalty negotiations and
patent valuations. Invalidity study is mainly used as a defensive tool against alleged
infringement by invalidating claims of the infringed patent.

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Infringement Study
Our Infringement study helps in estimating the risk of patent infringement before
developing, producing, and marketing your product.
Einfolge Technologies provides Patent Infringement Searches to locate any unexpired
patents whose claims read on the product features. The goal of this study is to
uncover patents with claims that could represent an infringement risk to a new
product, and the search should take place before the product is released to market.
Infringement searches may also cover expired patent art, and sometimes non-patent
sources such as product literature.
The Infringement study can be product- to- patent mapping or patent- to- patent
mapping depending on the immediate targets. This study helps in estimating the risk
of patent infringement before developing, producing, and marketing a product, and
also figure out the competitor’s patent coming in your way and invalidate it.
Freedom to Operate (FTO) Search
Freedom to operate searches, also known as Clearance Search or Right to Use Search
identifies potential patent barriers to the commercialization of products or
technologies.
We identify published applications and unexpired patents (in a specific jurisdiction or
worldwide) containing claims that could possibly indicate a risk of infringement by an
inventive product or process of the client. The product/process features are mapped
against the claim features of relevant patent references that are in-force in order to
determine the degree of freedom to operate without infringing on existing patents.

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Accelerated Examination Search
We provide pre-examination searches as per the guidelines of the USPTO’s
Accelerated Examination Program. An Accelerated Examination requires the applicant
to submit a pre-examination search document (PESD) and an accelerated examination
support document (AESD) to illustrate how the claims of an application are allowable
over known related art.
We search in all the prescribed resources and our report comprises all search related
information in accordance with USPTO requirements, and organize our deliverable for
easy review and ensures fast and affirmative response from the patent examiner
prosecuting your application.
This search helps in significantly reducing the total cost and time frame for obtaining a
patent. The accelerated examination search also proved to be useful for technologies
with short lifetime, rapidly growing portfolios and to get coverage in a new
technology in time to establish a position.