Analytics: Patent Search
AcclaimIP’s intuitive user-interface supports the art of searching. Patent searchers can explore results and uncover relevant information more rapidly with AcclaimIP’s high-performance system containing over 165 million worldwide patents.
Knockout Search
IP professionals can now use AcclaimIP to run a quick and efficient knockout search to help determine if an idea is worth pursuing. To do this, you can enter key terms or text from your invention and search for potential roadblocks to identify what is novel about your invention. With AcclaimIP, you can quickly run a knockout search internally, without the need to pay an outside service provider. With AcclaimIP’s knockout search you can:
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Find glaring, obvious prior art using key terms
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Use Find Similar, natural language search, and easy filtering
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Run a quick and fairly broad search of prior art, based on an invention disclosure
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Receive guidance on whether or not to perform a more in-depth and costly prior art search
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Roll up a knock out search into an in-depth prior art search to ensure resources aren’t wasted
Prior Art Search
Prior art searches identify if an invention is novel and therefore, patentable. AcclaimIP contains over 165 million patent documents from over 100 countries giving searchers unsurpassed patent coverage. AcclaimIP is the tool of choice for prior art search professionals because it offers a simple interface, industry-best class searching, document clustering, query matrices, and hundreds of research-specific tools, enabling better understanding of the prior art. With Prior Art Search, you can:
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Create a focused, in-depth search of prior art
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Determine the patentability of an invention
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Inform the direction of a patent application
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Tag patents with custom information
Technology Landscape
With AcclaimIP’s Technology Landscapes, portfolio managers can identify patent trends in a technology, including key players, number of patents, component technologies covered, and risk to your organization. AcclaimIP’s comprehensive technology landscape leads to better strategic decision making for portfolio managers. With this service, you will be able to:
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Track trends and emerging technologies and competitors
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Manage hierarchical technology queries
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Map your competitor’s patent mix including scale and diversity of their portfolios
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Find new competitors moving into your technology space
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Identify potential licensees for your patent
Freedom to Operate (FTO)
AcclaimIP helps product managers identify which competitors’ patents pose a potential risk for a new product or set of features on existing products. Performing FTO in AcclaimIP supports R&D process decisions. You can better determine enforceability and estimate expiration dates of competitive patents. With this capability, you can identify which patents have expired, giving you freedom to use that technology. AcclaimIP gives insight Into which patents are currently enforceable and which to license or design around. With AcclaimIP’s FTO, you can:
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Find estimated expiration of your IP
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Reduce the risk of patent-infringement liability
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Design R&D strategies to avoid duplication of effort
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Modify inventions as necessary to navigate existing roadblocks


Patent Alerts
With over 100,000 patents and applications published each week, searching for patents can be a difficult and time-consuming task. AcclaimIP not only helps you build the right searches to know what is out there, but also lets you know when things change, without having to re-run your previous searches. Being aware of when changes occur can be essential to your IP management. With AcclaimIP’s Patent Alerts, users can:
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Be aware which patents are useful right now
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Set recurring alerts so you know when changes occur
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Get notified with new and useful changes to allow for a more agile strategy