Targeted Patent Search
ipSearch℠: Find the right patents. Answer the right questions.
Every business question about IP starts with a search, but not every search is the same. ipSearch delivers tailored patent search programs designed around your specific objectives. Need to know if prior art will block your filing? We’ll find it before the USPTO does. Need your attorney to render a freedom-to-operate opinion? We identify the high-priority patents so counsel can focus on legal analysis instead of needle-in-a-haystack searching. Want to map competitor patents to your products for licensing leverage, or map your patents to products in the market for monetization? ipSearch builds the evidentiary foundation. From investor due diligence and IP acquisition targeting to competitive surveillance and portfolio gap analysis, ipSearch is the starting point for every informed IP decision. Our search analysts work across worldwide patent jurisdictions using best-in-class commercial databases, AI-assisted semantic search, and deep domain expertise to review and deliver results that are comprehensive, defensible, and actionable.
Typical Outputs
- Targeted patent search reports
- FTO candidate identification for counsel
- Product-to-patent mapping for monetization
- Acquisition and diligence search packages
Every engagement is custom-scoped. Learn more →
Why it matters
The difference between a productive IP engagement and a wasted one often comes down to the quality of the underlying search. Generic database queries return thousands of irrelevant results. Our search programs are engineered for precision — scoped to your technology, tuned to your business question, and executed by analysts who understand both patent classification systems and real-world product architectures. Clients use ipSearch to arm their patent counsel with exactly the right prior art or freedom-to-operate targets, saving tens of thousands in legal fees while getting stronger opinions. Monetization teams use our product-to-patent mapping to build licensing cases that generate revenue. And executives use our competitive search intelligence to make acquisition, filing, and R&D decisions with confidence.
Core Workstreams
Prior art and novelty searches scoped to specific inventions, technology domains, and worldwide jurisdictions
Freedom-to-operate (FTO) search identifying patents that may read on your products, processes, or planned commercialization
Patent-to-product and product-to-patent mapping for licensing, monetization, and evidence-of-use development
Custom search programs for investor diligence, IP acquisition targeting, competitive surveillance, and portfolio benchmarking