Domain Expertise

Synoptic IP has executed more than 100 semiconductor projects — 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 packaging, redistributed chip packaging (RCP) and power modulators, with extensive freedom-to-operate experience across the space.

Electronics and electrical engineering is our core strength. The team has located highly relevant prior art for genuinely difficult inventions — 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.

A strong track record in telecommunications: patentability and invalidity searches across RF communication technology, ad-hoc network inventions and ZigBee, plus 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, NLP, recommendation systems and generative models. We handle patentability, invalidity and freedom-to-operate work here, and 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, data recovery, dynamic virtual-server resources, data de-duplication, warehousing, virtualisation, integration, federation and cloud-based archiving — plus many patentability and invalidity projects on cloud operating systems, virtual devices and virtual bus tunnels, web-based asset management, and content query systems.

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

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.

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.