Prior art research conducted by TPR provides powerful strategic leverage when your products or patents are on the line. Whether your company is being sued for patent infringement, you are filing an IPR petition, or a competitor has been granted a patent that is standing in your way, TPR can help. Our prior art searches combine deep subject matter knowledge, a keen understanding of patent legal matters and a multi-pronged approach to locate killer prior art references no matter where they are hiding.

Leave no stone unturned.  With strategic search teams in the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, Korea and other countries, TPR offers the most extensive options in the industry for searching full-text and other patent and non-patent literature resources worldwide in multiple languages of origin. Multi-level options range from ‘Diligent’ to ‘Scorched Earth’.

• Worldwide online databases for patent and non-patent literature
• On-the-ground searching at patent offices, eminent scientific libraries, universities, conferences, special research institutions, and other resources in over 40 countries including in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, French, German, etc.
• Keyword and classification-based searching, plus subject-specific coding/indexing
• Access to obscure ‘grey’ literature and product catalogs
• Page turning of technical journals

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Our Validity search solution is consultative and totally customizable to align with your specific objectives.  Multi-pronged searches can be conducted concurrently for accelerated results.

• Clear legal obstacles by removing a competitor's patent
• Prevent payment of significant damages that would result from losing an infringement lawsuit
• Validate soon-to-be-acquired IP investments during a merger or acquisition
• Reduce scrutiny on your company's own portfolio
• Meet critical deadlines in the litigation and PTAB process
• Prove IPR estoppel with a Diligent Skilled Searcher Prior Art Search

For projects that demand the deepest level of information discovery and invalidity research, ask about our signature Validity Ultimate^SM service, our scorched earth service.

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