Synoptic IP has executed more than 100 semiconductor projects, most of them covering through-silicon vias (TSV), memories, FPGAs, analog and digital ASICs, A/D converters, testing methods, and fabrication and packaging processes. We have run complex landscape analyses on carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, eWLB (Embedded Wafer Level Ball Grid Array) packaging, redistributed chip packaging (RCP) and power modulators, and we have extensive freedom-to-operate experience across the semiconductor space.

Electronics and electrical engineering is our core strength. The team has located highly relevant prior art for genuinely difficult inventions in this domain — turbo decoders, speech decoding devices and methods, error-correcting code (ECC) memory, and methods for testing the response-signal timing of a memory under test, among many others.

We have a strong track record in telecommunications, covering patentability and invalidity searches across RF communication technology, ad-hoc network inventions and ZigBee. We have also delivered state-of-the-art searches on subjects such as power distribution grids used to transmit messages. Our communication engineers come from strong academic backgrounds and follow standards work closely.

Our AI and machine learning group works across neural network architectures, training and inference pipelines, computer vision, natural language processing, recommendation systems and generative models. We handle patentability, invalidity and freedom-to-operate work in this space, and we are comfortable with the claim-construction issues specific to algorithmic subject matter — including eligibility questions under §101 and their counterparts at the EPO and the Indian Patent Office.

Our computing team has prepared more than 50 claim charts covering database management systems, data recovery, dynamic virtual-server resources, data de-duplication, data warehousing, data virtualisation, data integration, data federation and cloud-based archiving. We have run many patentability and invalidity projects on cloud operating systems, virtual devices and virtual bus tunnels, web-based asset management, cloud resource usage in data-forwarding storage, and content query systems.

We cover in-vitro diagnostics, point-of-care testing and assay platforms, alongside imaging across ultrasound, MRI, CT, X-ray and optical modalities — including image reconstruction and the AI-assisted analysis increasingly bundled with these systems. Typical engagements are patentability and invalidity searches, landscape studies ahead of product planning, and freedom-to-operate work before market entry.

This covers surgical instruments and surgical robotics, catheters and guidewires, stents and implants, orthopaedic devices, energy-based treatment systems and drug-device combinations. We regularly handle freedom-to-operate and clearance work for device makers preparing to launch, and prepare evidence-of-use claim charts where infringement is suspected.

Connected health spans wearables and remote patient monitoring, implantable device telemetry, hospital connectivity and interoperability standards, and software as a medical device (SaMD). These inventions usually sit across device hardware, wireless communication and cloud software at once, so we build the search team accordingly and pay close attention to the regulatory and standards landscape shaping the claims.

We conduct prior art searches, landscape analyses and clearance searches across the life sciences. Project experience includes recombinant DNA technology, immunology, plant tissue culture, bioprocesses, nanobiotechnology, bioinformatics, microbiology and genomics. Biological sequence searching is handled in-house rather than outsourced.

Our pharmaceutical practice covers small molecules, formulations, polymorphs, salts, dosage forms, drug-delivery systems and biopharmaceuticals. We run validity and invalidity searches around Orange Book listings, prepare state-of-the-art reviews ahead of filing, and support clearance work for new chemical entities and follow-on products.

Our chemistry team covers organic and inorganic synthesis, catalysts, polymers, specialty chemicals and agrochemicals, coatings and advanced materials. We search by structure as well as by text, running Markush and full-structure queries across the major chemical databases, and routinely support patentability, invalidity and freedom-to-operate projects in this area.

We have run patentability and invalidity searches across access platforms, deformation sensors, rolling equipment, travel gears, drilling sensors, wellbore fluids, electrical switches, vortex mixers, metal-extraction residues, thermal bridges, wheelchair restraints, fuel filters, vehicle actuators, brake discs and drill tubes. On the automotive side we have delivered numerous freedom-to-operate searches covering clutch and gear actuation, gearshift, seating, climate control, headrests, armrests and transmission systems. The team also drafts provisional and non-provisional applications and office action responses, and combines core-industry R&D experience with time spent inside Indian IPR firms.

Our research associates have solid grounding in robotics and keep pace with developments in the field. Completed project work here is limited in number and largely confidential, but we have delivered a range of advisory engagements for clients in the US and Europe.

Mechatronics sits where our mechanical, electronics and software teams overlap, and we staff these projects across all three. Work includes motion control, actuators and drives, sensor fusion, embedded control systems, industrial automation and machine safety. Searches here often need claims read against both hardware structure and control logic at the same time, which is exactly where a mixed team pays off.