New Application Scouting
New Application Scouting locates fresh application opportunities for technologies already owned by businesses and research institutions.
Application scouting feeds market expansion strategy for your current technology portfolio, and strengthens innovation, R&D strategy, patent portfolios and invention along the way. It also supports licensing or expansion plans that can markedly improve the return on innovation you have already paid for.
What Application Scouting Is For
Find untapped application areas
To identify technological application areas that nobody has yet exploited for the technology you hold.
Build competitive strategy from existing technology
To develop competitive strategies by adapting current technologies to new uses rather than starting from scratch.
Promote open innovation
To support an open innovation approach, where the value comes from finding the right external application.
Find collaborators and licensees
To identify the parties worth working with, or from whom licences are worth acquiring.
Ease entry into a new market
To make sourcing easier so that entering the new market is a shorter step than it first appears.
Why Consider Synoptic IP
Techno-legal expertise across technology fields
Our techno-legal experts bring in-depth knowledge across a wide span of technology fields, which is what makes cross-domain application scouting possible at all.
Proficient across database search types
We are practised with IPC and CPC class searches, assignee searches, citation searches and similar operations across the major databases.
Multiple levels of quality assurance
Work passes through several rounds of quality assurance before it reaches you.
Optimised cost, customisable reports
We keep the cost proportionate to the scope, and shape the report to how you intend to use it.
Words From Our Clients
Verified LinkedIn reviews and client correspondence from patent attorneys and in-house IP teams who come back to us project after project.
I, too, enjoyed our interactions in 2025, and I am also looking forward to the opportunity to work with you and your team this year!!
I used Synoptic for a validity search and was pleased with the results. The rates were highly competitive, the deliverable was on time, and the results were as good as (if not better than) other searches I’ve used.
Erin J. FoxIntellectual Property Counsel · ITW
Thank you — the search was quite helpful. We’ll have your invoice processed promptly.
Thank you for your work on this matter. We were pleased with the search and will consider you for future searches.
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Get Quotes Now!New Application Scouting
The New Application Scouting service from Synoptic IP locates new application opportunities for the technologies owned by businesses and research institutions. You can develop market expansion strategies for your current technology portfolio by using application scouting, which increases and boosts innovation, R&D strategy, patent portfolios, and invention. You can also create licencing or expansion plans that dramatically boost the return on innovation.
Analyze applications thoroughly with application scouting:
- To identify untapped technological application areas.
- To develop competitive strategies by adapting current technologies for new uses.
- In order to promote open innovation
- To work together with pertinent parties or acquire licences.
- To make sourcing easier so that you can get into the new market.
Why Synoptic IP?
- 60+ application scouting searches are carried out by us.
- We have a team of 250+ Techno-Legal Experts with in-depth expertise in many different technology fields.
- We are proficient in using databases to conduct a variety of searches, including IPC and CPC class searches, assignee searches, citation searches, and similar operations.
- We offer multiple levels of quality assurance.
- We provide optimized cost and customizable reports.
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