Evalueserve
  • About
  • Blog
  • Careers
  • mind+machine™
Contact Us
  • Analytics
      • Analytics Overview
      • Marketing & Digital Analytics
      • Sales Analytics
      • Supply Chain & Operations Analytics
      • Pricing & Revenue Management
      • Customer Insights
      • IP & Innovation Analytics
      • Risk & Compliance Analytics
  • Knowledge Services
      • Marketing, Sales & Strategy
      • Marketing and Sales Enablement
      • Strategy Research Support
      • Procurement
      • Procurement Intelligence
      • Innovation Intelligence & IP Solutions
      • IPR&D Intelligence
      • IPR&D Search
      • IP Prosecution Services
      • (Eco)Toxicology Consulting Service
      • Professional Services
      • Rapid Research Support
      • Knowledge Management & Transformation
      • Market and Strategic Intelligence
      • Design and Production Support
      • Deals, M&A, and Corporate Finance Support
      • Scaling Data Assets
      • Financial Services
      • Risk & Compliance
      • Investment Banking Support
      • Corporate Banking Support
      • Commercial Banking Support
      • Global Markets Research
      • Index & Quant Solutions
      • Investment Management
      • Life Sciences & Healthcare
      • Biopharmaceuticals, Medical Products & Healthcare
      • Datacrest
  • Service Design Consulting
  • Digital Platforms
      • Insightsfirst
      • Researchstream
      • Spreadsmart
      • Insightloupe
      • Usecasehub
      • Datacrest
      • Pitchready
      • Researchscaler
      • Navigator
      • Publishwise
      • AnalyticsApps
      • Compsbuilder
  • Industries
      • Financial Services
      • Corporate & Investment Banking

      • Capital Markets

      • Investment Management

      • Retail & Commercial Banking

      • Risk & Compliance

      • Manufacturing
      • Automotive

      • Consumer Packaged Goods

      • Engineering

      • Energy

      • Chemicals

      • Life Sciences & Healthcare
      • Bio-Pharmaceuticals

      • Medical Products

      • Healthcare

      • Technology Media & Telecommunications
      • Telecommunications & Media

      • Hardware & Software

      • The Internet of Things

      • Professional Services
      • Consultancy

      • Legal

      • Taxation, Auditing & Accountancy

      • Services
      • Retail

      • Freight & Logistics

      • Utilities

      • Non-Profit Organizations

  • Resources
      • Case Studies
      • Blog
      • White Papers
      • Evalueserve in the News
      • Industry Insights
      • COVID-19 Disruption Insights
      • Events
  • Analytics
      • Analytics Overview
      • Marketing & Digital Analytics
      • Sales Analytics
      • Supply Chain & Operations Analytics
      • Pricing & Revenue Management
      • Customer Insights
      • IP & Innovation Analytics
      • Risk & Compliance Analytics
  • Knowledge Services
      • Marketing, Sales & Strategy
      • Marketing and Sales Enablement
      • Strategy Research Support
      • Procurement
      • Procurement Intelligence
      • Innovation Intelligence & IP Solutions
      • IPR&D Intelligence
      • IPR&D Search
      • IP Prosecution Services
      • (Eco)Toxicology Consulting Service
      • Professional Services
      • Rapid Research Support
      • Knowledge Management & Transformation
      • Market and Strategic Intelligence
      • Design and Production Support
      • Deals, M&A, and Corporate Finance Support
      • Scaling Data Assets
      • Financial Services
      • Risk & Compliance
      • Investment Banking Support
      • Corporate Banking Support
      • Commercial Banking Support
      • Global Markets Research
      • Index & Quant Solutions
      • Investment Management
      • Life Sciences & Healthcare
      • Biopharmaceuticals, Medical Products & Healthcare
      • Datacrest
  • Service Design Consulting
  • Digital Platforms
      • Insightsfirst
      • Researchstream
      • Spreadsmart
      • Insightloupe
      • Usecasehub
      • Datacrest
      • Pitchready
      • Researchscaler
      • Navigator
      • Publishwise
      • AnalyticsApps
      • Compsbuilder
  • Industries
      • Financial Services
      • Corporate & Investment Banking
      • Capital Markets
      • Investment Management
      • Retail & Commercial Banking
      • Risk & Compliance
      • Manufacturing
      • Automotive
      • Consumer Packaged Goods
      • Engineering
      • Energy
      • Chemicals
      • Life Sciences & Healthcare
      • Bio-Pharmaceuticals
      • Medical Products
      • Healthcare
      • Technology Media & Telecommunications
      • Telecommunications & Media
      • Hardware & Software
      • The Internet of Things
      • Professional Services
      • Consultancy
      • Legal
      • Taxation, Auditing & Accountancy
      • Services
      • Retail
      • Freight & Logistics
      • Utilities
      • Non-Profit Organizations
  • Resources
      • Case Studies
      • Blog
      • White Papers
      • Evalueserve in the News
      • Industry Insights
      • COVID-19 Disruption Insights
      • Events
  • Home > 
  • FREEDOM TO OPERATE PATENT SEARCH

FREEDOM TO OPERATE PATENT SEARCH

Controlled quality through Evalueserve’s Search Quality Index (SQI) delivered by the largest global search provider.

Talk to an Expert

THE IMPORTANCE OF FREEDOM TO OPERATE PATENT SEARCHES

FTO searches provide business-critical information and form the basis for invaluable FTO opinions. Our industry unique approach ensures you have clear understanding of your search options and delivers the highest quality results. We work with you to tailor the search recall need for your project phase, from early-development to ready-to-launch. To see how the goal effects the search, read more.

EVALUESERVE’S BENEFITS FOR CLIENTS

  • SQI

    Controlled Search Quality

    Controllable, higher quality – expertise from the market leader

  • Freedom to operate

    Multilingual Searchers

    We proudly offer native language search and evaluation.

  • Domain expertise

    Industry & Domain Experience

    Evalueserve provides 20 years of FTO domain expertise

YOUR PARTNER ON QUALITY-FOCUSED PATENT SEARCHES

  • FTO RISK MATRIX™

    Evalueserve’s unique FTO Risk Matrix™ approach allows you to clearly understand the possible strategies for your FTO analysis and allows you to make decisions based on 360 understanding not just cost.

  • PUTTING HUNDREDS OF ANALYSTS AND CONSULTANTS AT YOUR DISPOSAL

    Your Search will be delivered by specialists in your technology field from our offices in the United States, Germany, Netherlands, India and China. The Evalueserve IPR&D team is unique in having a large, in-house research development and innovation intelligence team. We are dedicated to improving quality in patent search and analytics while optimizing digital, industrialized intellectual property prosecution services.

  • HUMAN EXPERTISE COMBINED WITH BEST-IN-CLASS TECHNOLOGY

    Insightloupe: Evalueserve’s proprietary digital platform, including customized curated data sets covering patent, technical literature, news and business data sources. This platform is used to control quality of the search throughout the process.

  • CONTROLLED SEARCH QUALITY

    Evalueserve introduced the Search Quality Index™ as a measure to understand and control search quality. We’ve refined these efforts through multi-database searches, secondary searches, and more to ensure that the most relevant documents are captured through our search strategies.

  • INDUSTRY & DOMAIN EXPERTISE

    Evalueserve provides not only 20 years of FTO and language expertise, but also domain expertise from employees’ hands-on industrial experiences, including often – difficult subject areas like biological searches and structure searches.

  • QUALITY WHEN IT MATTERS - WHEN AND HOW YOU NEED IT AT THE OPTIMUM COSTS

    Cost efficient through a mix of global specialists working from offices in the United States, Europe, India and China providing highest quality at optimum costs.

  • LOCAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

    We understand the need of local experts which support a high quality of every project we deliver and understand local specifics. Learn more how our Solution Delivery Team supports each project

READ MORE ABOUT MIND+MACHINE™ FOR FREEDOM TO OPERATE PATENT SEARCH

  • Blog Post

    Patent Search Strategy: Creating the Perfect Search

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    What is a good IP and R&D search?
    Part 2: How to find and clone the ‘perfect searcher’

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    What is a good IP and R&D search?
    Part 3: The searcher’s dilemma

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    The Evalueserve Search Quality Index (SQI) – a tool to control, document and improve Patent Search Quality

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    FTO search
    Part 1: Conducting a freedom to operate search - what experienced searchers do differently?

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    FTO Search
    Part 2: A framework for the great ‘risk versus research’ balancing act

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    What makes a good patent search? Learning from zero-fault-tolerance processes in aviation and medicine

    Read the Blog Post
  • Blog Post

    Patent Search Strategy: Creating the Perfect Search

    Read the Blog Post

TALK TO ONE OF OUR EXPERTS

Get in touch today to find out about how Evalueserve can help you improve your processes, making you better, faster and more efficient.

TALK TO AN EXPERT

Follow us on

  • Service Design Consulting

    • Service Design Consulting Overview
  • Knowledge Services

    • Knowledge Services Overview
    • Marketing, Sales, & Strategy
    • Innovation Intelligence & IP Solutions
    • Professional Services
    • Financial Services
    • Life Sciences & Healthcare
  • Analytics

    • Analytics Overview
    • Marketing & Digital Analytics
    • Sales Analytics
    • Supply Chain & Operations Analytics
    • Pricing & Revenue Management
    • Customer Insights
    • IP & Innovation Analytics
    • Risk & Compliance Analytics
  • Digital Platforms

    • Digital Platforms Overview
    • Datacrest
    • Pitchready
    • Researchstream
    • Spreadsmart
    • Usecasehub
    • Insightloupe
    • Insightsfirst
    • Researchscaler
    • Navigator
    • Publishwise
    • AnalyticsApps
    • Compsbuilder
  • Industries

    • Financial Services
    • Manufacturing
    • Life Sciences & Healthcare
    • Technology Media & Telecommunications
    • Professional Services
    • Services
  • Resources

    • Blog
    • Case Studies
    • White Papers
    • Industry Insights
    • Events
    • Competitive Intelligence
    • Financial Spreading
    • Demand Forecasting
  • About Evalueserve

    • About Us
    • Evalueserve Team
    • mind+machine™
    • Stories That Connect Us
  • Careers at Evalueserve

    • Careers
  • Press Center

    • News
  • Contact Evalueserve

    • Talk to one of our experts
    • Office locations
© 2021 Evalueserve. All rights reserved.
  • Imprint
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Corporate Governance
  • Site Map
  • Email Marketing Guidelines