Our Freedom to Operate (FTO) search targets active patents and pending applications relevant to your designated country or region, considering the territorial nature of patent rights. Additionally, we include searches for PCT applications potentially entering the national phase and can broaden the scope to cover foreign and expired patents as well. We determine the scope of the search based on the features of the product, process, or service at issue. Any potentially relevant patents that come up during the search are flagged for checking. We analyze these patents to determine whether they pose an infringement risk to your product, process, or service, and also if they are active. Our experts’ keen understanding of claim language and scope puts them in an excellent place to craft IP strategies that not only cover the features of your product, process, or service directly but also target concepts that broadly encompass these features. Once the search process is concluded, we provide an intuitive FTO report that includes the potential claims in specific patents, their bibliographic data, and the patents’ current legal status.