How to create a Freedom to Operate Search Strategy

An FTO Search and Analysis plays a vital role in Patent Infringement Risk Assessment, Alleviation of Investor/Shareholder worries, and Protection of Patent from intentional Invalidity Proceedings. PatSeer allows you to conduct an FTO Search by yourself. The article How to Create A Freedom to Operate Search Strategy sheds light on leveraging PatSeer’s Global Patent Database for your FTO Searching and Analysis

Creating a Freedom to Operate Search Strategy

let us understand the search strategy preparation for a Freedom to Operate (FTO) study in the field of Biotechnology, where the focus area of the search need not be a specific invention but a broad-based invention area which may extend to several inventions.

Understanding the Invention

The invention area involves an artificial tissue obtainable by the following method of preparation:

To add a composition containing fibrinogen to isolated cells.
To add a fibrinolytic agent to the product resulting from the previous step
To add at least one coagulation factor, a source of calcium, thrombin, or any combination thereof to the resulting product of the second step
To add a polysaccharide composition to the resulting product of the third step
To grow isolated cells in or on the resulting product

Restrictions

Freedom to Operate, typically involves a date restriction to restrict the set of results to last 25 years since only live and enforceable patent documents are to be considered as potentially relevant to the scope of an FTO. Thus, considering patent terms timelines and factoring in patent term extensions, only patent documents with filing date/priority date extending back to 25 years are searched for an FTO.

Developing the Freedom to Operate Search Strategy

For this example, an alternative approach to searching is considered where each of the concepts are initially run in different search fields to create individual concept-based search strings. These search strings are then combined iteratively with each other and Patent Classifications to narrow down the result set. Relevant Date and Jurisdiction restrictions are extended to the searches

PatSeer has also helped many Intellectual property professionals to built a sound strategy with the help of various PatSeer edition.

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