Service Products for Patents and Utility Models
Below is a selection of the DKPTO’s service products that will help you when trading in patents and utility models.
Patent Intelligence
This service product is an analysis of general development trends within the field of patents. A strategic tool to bring you to the cutting edge of current technological trends so that you know which ideas and products to invest in. For example, by requesting this search you will be able to identify which patents could be economically beneficial to license.
State of the art
This is a comprehensive search which concludes with a report on the existing prior art in the technological field in which you work. The report discloses the solutions already available and who is working with them.
Get inspiration to find solutions to a particular problem, or find business partners/co-operators. Both can lift your development to a higher level so that you save time on further development and reduce costs.
Clearance search
Even though a novelty search shows that it is possible to obtain a patent, it may be necessary to find out whether a particular product is infringing the rights of others. It may turn out that a product cannot be produced without infringing another person’s rights (e.g. a production method, apparatus or other essential patent).
Validity search
Do you suspect that it is possible to establish doubt about the validity of an existing patent or that a patent application should be granted? A validity search will find documents that can be used to contest the validity of a patent or application. We can also perform the search for utility models.
Patent family and status search
This product will reveal the countries in which the patent is valid and its status in each of those countries. If you are considering buying or selling a patent it is important to know where the patent is valid and for how long.