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New Application Scouting

New Application Scouting locates fresh application opportunities for technologies already owned by businesses and research institutions.

  • 4,000+projects delivered
  • 70+clients
  • 12+years in practice
  • 6 yrsaverage engineer experience

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.

Client Testimonials

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.

LinkedIn review
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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. FoxErin J. FoxIntellectual Property Counsel · ITWPublic & verified
LinkedIn review
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Ankit did a very thorough and professional job on a claim chart assignment for us. He showed great perseverance when things got difficult and was able to get the job done. I would work with him again.

Eric BrownEric BrownIP Consultant · Building Viable Licensing ProgramsPublic & verified
Client email
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Thank you — the search was quite helpful. We’ll have your invoice processed promptly.

Patent AttorneyQuarles & Brady · Client since 2018Name withheld
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Thank you for your work on this matter. We were pleased with the search and will consider you for future searches.

Patent AttorneyMerchant & Gould · Client since 2018Name withheld
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We were very pleased with the patentability and FTO report that you produced for us back in November 2024.

Client ContactFrontierBio · Client since 2024Name withheld

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Ankit Saxena, Head of Hi-Tech Patent Research at Synoptic IP
Reviewed ByAnkit Saxena Head of Hi-Tech Patent Research

Founder of Synoptic IP with 15 years in prior art research and patent analysis. Ankit reviews the search methodology behind this service.

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