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A recent conversation with one of our clients prompted us to reinforce our belief that early-stage freedom to operate (FTO) searches are business critical. Our client, a corporate R&D organization, informed us of a situation in which one of their teams spent significant time working on product development. Just as when they were getting ready to develop their marketing / commercialization stra...

Patentability An Introduction: “Patentability” refers to the substantive conditions that must be met, for an invention, to be patented. The invention must satisfy the requirements under the context of a national or international patent system. An invention is patentable if it meets the related legal conditions to be granted a patent.The invention must meet the following patentability requir...

Freedom to Operate (FTO) – an introduction: Freedom to operate search is an imperative due diligence step to be performed for any organization prior to commercializing a newly developed product or process. Freedom to operate searches help identify any potential infringement on the intellectual property (IP) rights of another party.A Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis involves a search of pat...