Freedom to operate
Doing business in sectors and markets dominated by IP rights is associated with a potential risk of being dominated by competitors having patents or pending patent applications. Although a company has a number of granted patents, it is therefore by no means certain that it will be able to freely market its products since both pending patent applications and even granted patents may potentially be dominated by rights owned by other companies.
Read more
In order to determine whether our clients have “freedom to operate” within an area of business or a technical area, we identify relevant patents/applications and assess their scope of protection, validity, status and geographical coverage as well as the probability of the applicants obtaining a dominant patent. At the same time, we present an assessment of our client’s options of working around dominant patents, for instance by using alternative technologies.
We have extensive experience with the preparation of freedom-to-operate analyses – both within our clients’ core technologies and within other business areas. We always make a clear recommendation and thus chart the course for our clients’ future approach within the technology in question. In this manner, we enable our clients to assess the potential risk at hand.
Dragsted Partners develops patents for Copenhagen, Rio De Janeiro – and the rest of the world
ENTREPRENEUR: »Someone copied my idea – what to do?«