Prior Use and Prior Art Search Services
Prior art is an invaluable defensive tactic against patent infringement allegations. While we offer traditional prior art search services, our strength lies in finding evidence of prior use. Prior use searches offer an alternative to traditional prior art methods by including product search sources such as device images, reverse engineering reports, and custom analysis.
Our extensive collection of research resources combined with a large device/product inventory helps our IP group and law firm clients increase their chance of finding prior use and prior art.
Information Resource Centre
- Houses over 8,000 research resources including:
- Reverse engineering reports
- Databooks, datasheets, and conference proceedings from as far back as the 1970s
- Technical and business related journals and books
Product/device inventory
- Maintains over 60,000 products/devices
- Many devices date back to the 1970s; several more date back to the early to mid 1990s
- Approximately 5,000 new products/devices are added each year
- Often able to find devices that are hard to procure in the market
Related Services:
Fact Witness: Tell a compelling story to win favorable outcomes
Technical Capabilities: Systems, circuit and process reverse engineering analysis to support patent infringement claims
For more information, please contact insidepatents@chipworks.com