IP News & Updates
Patent News Roundup: Week to 20 October 2026
This patent news roundup covers 5 developments reported in October 2026 that matter to litigation, licensing and search teams. The items are:…
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IP News & Updates
Invalidity & Litigation Search
How to Build an Invalidity Claim Chart, with a Worked Example
An invalidity claim chart is a table that sets each limitation of a patent claim beside the passage of a prior art…
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Invalidity & Litigation Search
Invalidity Search vs Invalidity Contentions vs Rule 11 Claim Charts
Invalidity contentions are the formal disclosure in which the defendant in a US patent suit sets out why the asserted claims are…
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Freedom to Operate
Patentability vs FTO vs Invalidity Search: Which One Do You Need?
Patentability vs FTO vs invalidity search: what question each one answers, what it reads, when to run it and what it costs,…
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Prior Art Search Blogs
Patent Invalidity Search: Process, Timeline and Cost
What a patent invalidity search is, when it is needed, how it is carried out, how long it takes and what it…
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Prior Art Search Blogs
Synoptic IP’s approach to conducting Invalidity Search (Methodology).
We have successfully delivered invalidation reports to clients from different backgrounds including inventors, law firms, manufacturers and organizations across various domains. Our…
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Prior Art Search Blogs
When does an Invalidity Search or Opposition Search required?
In this digital age with digitization of old records we have access to the relevant information which was unreachable before. These new…
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