Design patents and registered industrial designs can represent a substantial amount of your company’s intellectual property portfolio. All the more reason, then, to manage and protect them like every valuable IP asset.

You can expect the highest quality design searches from TPR’s subject matter experts, including a thorough review of drawings in often crowded design spaces.

For those requesting expedited examination of a design application or 'Design Rocket Docket', a pre-examination search is a requirement. TPR is highly experienced in conducting specialized searches for expedited examination of a design application.

Our teams of search experts leverage a suite of information sources and best-in-class search techniques to find the design information critical to your design patenting strategies. 

Design searching in general is highly visual, and keyword based searching of these types of documents is often unreliable. Therefore, we examine design classifications by hand in their entirety, viewing each patent in a specific class. We supplement this with forward and backward citation searching for even greater coverage.

TPR’s design search service covers all areas of design, including international designs, European community designs, and other key authorities as needed, like CA, JP, CN, etc.

We align with your legal IP and business objectives and provide the answers you need to move forward with confidence.

For Design Searches in general:

• Uncover design patents your business could be in danger of infringing
• Avoid licensing fees
• Prepare for licensing opportunities or other IP strategy moves
• Clear designs before embarking on costly manufacturing

For Design Rocket Docket searches:

• Thorough searching that meets the USPTO’s requirements for a design pre-examination search, including capability for subsequent searching as needed to accommodate USPTO requests*
• Reduce design patent prosecution time by a year or more
• Get faster protection for new product designs that are entering the marketplace quickly
• Protect your product design from knockoffs and competitors

The highest quality patent searches conducted by true professionals, each and every time.  

^{*Disclosure: Follow-up searching may require additional budget authorization}