Request a Quote
—  Patent Portfolio Management & Monitoring

Legal Status Monitoring

Legal status monitoring gives you regular updates on the condition of your own IP, on the IP status of your competitors, and on any IP that has expired.

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

Why Do You Need Legal Status Monitoring and Alert Services?

  • Give regular updates on your own IP’s condition so that you can take appropriate action.
  • Regular updates on the IP status of competitors aid in predicting their tactics.
  • Regular updates on any expired IP that can serve as a market entry point.

Why Synoptic IP? Our Expertise

  • Tracking patents post-grant and pre-grant
  • Monitoring of patent assignments
  • Monitoring both public and private PAIR
  • Covering a broad jurisdiction either directly or through a network of partners
  • Legal professionals who have been trained to examine transaction history, file wrappers, and provide a full description of events throughout the monitoring period
  • Providing information based on monitoring to help with risk and business opportunity evaluation and the decision to file oppositions
  • Collaboration with regional lawyers in areas where the legal standing of an IP is not publicly known
  • Expertise in keeping track of Asian jurisdictional patents (including China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and India)
  • Clearly emphasising the updates made during the current monitoring period, to improve visibility

Coverage

  • Patent prosecution information: the patent offices of the relevant jurisdictions, including the EP Register, USPTO, SIPO, KIPRIS, and INPASS, among others
  • Patent litigation information is available via RPX Insight, Case Law World II Database, and 4IPCouncil.
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
★★★★★

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
★★★★★

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
★★★★★

Thank you — the search was quite helpful. We’ll have your invoice processed promptly.

Patent AttorneyQuarles & Brady · Client since 2018Name withheld
Client email
★★★★★

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
Client email
★★★★★

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

Looking for a First-Class Patent Search Consultant?

Get Quotes Now!

Read More on Our Blogs

Explore more on our blogs to have a better understanding of our services.

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.

View full profile