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.
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.
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 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
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 BrownUS Patent Agent
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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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)
- To improve visibility, clearly emphasise the updates made during the current monitoring period.
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.
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