Inrea Research

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Prior-art Search

Patent Analysis

Licensing Support

Patent Drafting

Trademark Search

Patent Research Services

Our comprehensive patent research services deliver the most in-depth results in a wide variety of technology fields.

These searches are done through various patent, non patent and business information databases. We further provide services for legal status analysis, structure searches, gene sequences and reaction searches.

Our Quality Proposition in Prior Art Searches

Subject matter experts in various technology

fields

Multiple database searches to eliminate indexing

errors (Derwent, Delphion, Micropatent, Google,

Freepatents online)

Subscription to numerous databases to ensure

extensive information coverage.

Complete transparency in our deliverable so that

you know our complete search methodology

Our Pricing

You specify your budget and we

perform the search within the budget

You specify your requirements and we provide

you with a fixed cost estimate/ price range

Deliverable

Concise deliverables to save your valuable time and ensure complete transparency in search methodology:

Only the most relevant publications found in the prior art (usually two to six citations), a short discussion, relevant references in the specifications of the full-text and the original document.
Claim-to-Claim or Claim-to-Description charts, if required.
Prior-art peripheral/ related to the subject matter.
Complete search methodology, classifications and key strings used in various database along with the number of hits in each database

Type of Search	Information Coverage	Turn Around Time

Patentability/ Novelty search	Patent and Non-patent literature.	5 Business days
Validity/ Invalidity search	Patent and Non-patent literature. A variety of creative strategies are applied to unearth relevant prior art.	7-20 Business days depending on requirements and budget
Accelerated examination search	Patent and Non-patent literature The searching and reporting is performed as per the USPTO guidelines.	4 – 7 Business days
Freedom-to-operate/ Clearance search	Patents specific to a country.	7-18 Business days depending on technology and budget
State-of-the-art search	Patent and Non-patent literature. The search is non-meant to be exhaustive because it helps pin point general state of the art of the technology.	7-15 Business days depending on requirements, technology and budget
Patent/technology updates and watches	Patent and Non-patent literature. Weekly, Monthly updates can be scheduled.	Weekly, Biweekly, monthly, quarterly
Legal status/Recorded reassignments citation/Family analysis	Patents. In house data extraction and summarization tools are used to reduce cost and provide quality results.	3-5 Business days
Specialty searches	Specialized data sources (patent and non-patent) like STN, Derwent etc.	2-5 Business days
Assignee/ Inventor/ Reassignment searches	Specialized patent databases like STN, Dialog and Derwent because of efficient indexing.	2-5 Business days
Biztech (Business + Technology) analysis	Multiple business databases.	3-10 Business days depending on requirements