In some countries, participation by the public is an innate attribute of their examining system. If the examiner allows an application, it gets published for opposition. Following this, there is a period of generally 3 to 4 months within which anybody can challenge the issue of patent.

In many countries, the opposing party can be an individual or a corporation. While in certain other countries, only those who are distressed by the outcome can be the opposition. So, the opposition is only between the parties, and the opposing party is free to raise any objection, on the basis of which a patent would be rejected or deemed invalid.

Opposition search is essentially a search performed to determine novelty or inventive step for employing in opposition of prior art.

It performs necessary search for seeking accelerated examination in sync with the style as set forth by various examination standards for search reporting.

Pre-Request for Examination Search

Our team searches and reports status of prior art, to help determine whether or not an examination should be requested, besides guiding you in amending claims.

Pre-Application Search

We carry out searches and notify status of prior art to help consider patentability of the invention broached. Our team also carries out a preliminary search which is obligatory according to the US Patent Law.

Your searches are perfect with our highly-trained staff. We also have with us subject matter experts in varied areas of technology and science, including: Polymer Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Technology, Chemistry, Bio-Technology, Genetics, and Computer Science. This is not all, our specialists also have access to such industry-leading patent and prior art databases as Delphion, LexisNexis, MicroPat, and STN.