What is a Design Patentability Search?

The Design Patentability Search analyzes the "novelty" and "non-obviousness" of the product's ornamental design. While utility patents provide protection for the functionality of products, design patents give protection to the look of the products. The professional design patent search aims at ensuring that the design, shape, configuration, and/or surface decoration of the product is not already patented to uncover any relevant visual prior art.

Why Conduct This Search?

• Avoid Rejection — Determine confusingly similar designs prior to filing the application with the IPO, USPTO, EPO, or WIPO. This acts as a vital prior art risk assessment and IP clearance search.
• Scope Definition — Determine the "crowdedness" of the product design to craft better claim applications through a thorough patent clearance search.
• Design Infringement Risk Mitigation — Launch your new product without risk of being sued by competing companies. Conducting a design patent clearance search, freedom to operate design patent analysis, or FTO design search helps mitigate this design patent infringement risk. It serves as a critical infringement risk check and design risk analysis before entering the market.

How We Do It at Intellect Bastion:

• Visual Features Analysis – Our experts assess the visual features of the product design including its distinctive shapes, lines, and textures using a specialized visual patent search and GUI design search.
• Locarno and Design Classes Research – We cope with complicated classification systems like the Locarno Classification system and national classes of designs. This precise Locarno classification design search and Locarno classification search ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Worldwide Databases Search – We search databases such as DesignView, WIPO Hague Express, and industrial design gazette databases. This rigorous global design patent database search and global design search leaves no stone unturned.
• Prior Art Image Search (non-patents) – We search online catalogues, social media posts, trade publications, etc., for prior art images. This establishes a robust industrial design prior art methodology for advanced prior art tracking.

Why Choose Intellect Bastion?

We have a sharp visual analysis skill set. Our reports are highly accurate featuring comparison of your product with prior art at a high resolution level. As an experienced patent search firm, our team of design patent experts and expert patent analysts delivers premier design patent search services. When you choose to outsource design patent search projects to our IP search agency, you get a dedicated patent search firm for industrial designs backed by expert design patent specialists.