Patent Searching
Patent searching is the crucial first step in innovation process. It helps determine novelty, ensuring your idea is truly original, assesses the inventive step to confirm that the invention is not an obvious improvement, and verifies its industrial application for real-world usability. A thorough patent search prevents surprise legal challenges, enhances your patent strategy, and safeguards your rights—because your breakthrough deserves the best protection.
Patentability Search
Evaluates whether invention meets novelty, inventive step and industrial application.
Quick Search
Provides the list of prior art documents disclosing the technology.
Prior Art Search
Identifies existing prior art such as patented and non-patented literature.
Freedom to Operate Search –
India Only
Assesses whether a product or process can be developed, manufactured, and marketed without infringing existing intellectual property rights in India.
Freedom to Operate Search – Foreign Country
Assesses whether a product or process can be developed, manufactured, and marketed without infringing existing intellectual property rights in a Foreign Jurisdiction.
Patent Landscape
Search
Comprehensive analysis of patents within a specific technological area or industry to identify
innovation trends, key players, white spaces and opportunities.
Validity / Invalidity
Search
Determine whether a patent is legally sound and enforceable (valid) or susceptible to being challenged and overturned (invalid).
Infringement
Search
Examines whether the product or process violates existing patents
Patent Watch and
Monitoring
Tracking newly published patents/patent applications, legal status changes, and competitor activities
Inventor Based
Search
Identifying patents and applications associated with a specific inventor
Assignee Based
Search
Identifies patents and applications associated with an individual, organization or entity that owns or has acquired rights to a patent or a patent application
Lex Rikai Advantage:
Deep-Dive Analysis:
Our team of Patent attorneys/agents and technical experts scrutinize your invention’s core features, identifying potential overlaps with prior art.
Database Mastery:
We leverage premium and paid global databases
Early Risk detection:
Identify patent conflicts at the outset and avoid expensive surprises during product launch or commercialization
Cost Efficiency and affordable:
Optimize R&D spending.
Confidentiality:
Robust security protocols protect your intellectual property at every step.