ClaimBot® Freedom-to-Operate software
ClaimBot® is Fast
The traditional FTO investigation process can include multiple repetitions of analysis for each independent claim in a patent landscape.
ClaimBot® software enables you to analyze hundreds or thousands of independent patent claims concurrently. Infringement review of a target product or method relative to a large patent landscape can be reduced to minutes or hours, instead of days or months of work.
ClaimBot® is Visual
Lucid Patent® FTO charts are interactive charts. Once the independent claims of the patents of interest are scraped into ClaimBot® software, various limitations from the independent claims can efficiently be parsed out and combined into simplified "Scope Concepts." The user evaluates whether each Scope Concept is applicable to a product or not, and enters these finding into the chart. For each Scope Concept that is not applicable to the product, all claims indexed to that Scope Concept become excluded.
When all Scope Concepts in the Lucid Patent® FTO chart have been evaluated for the product, the completed interactive chart shows which patents and claims have been excluded from coverage and why. It also shows whether some claims may need more detailed review to achieve Freedom To Operate.
Visual Recognition
ClaimBot® charts map the patent landscape visually. Opportunities and dangers can be seen at a glance.
ClaimBot® is Powerful
ClaimBot software can be used in a variety of ways beyond FTO analysis, for example:Due diligence -- to more accurately access the true value of a target company's patent portfolio; Offensive assertion investigations -- in essence the same process as FTO except using another company's product as the target; Coverage review -- for resource allocation or false markeing review; Invalidity -- where prior art is "indexed" to a claim chart to aid with invalidity investigations; Unclaimed subject matter -- where specifications are mapped against claims to reveal interesting, unclaimed subject matter; and Categorization -- patents in the FTO landscape are grouped into one or more technology categories.
ClaimBot® is Flexible
In the traditional FTO investigation, the entire FTO process must be repeated for each design change. With ClaimBot software you can explore the benefits and risks of various design-around possibilities in real-time. Leverage the work you've already done.
Explore design changes in real-time
ClaimBot® is Efficient
The traditional FTO investigation can be costly, requiring many attorney hours for each target product or method analyzzed.
As an example, a Midwest firm recently quoted a start-ip medical device company between $80,000 and $100,000 to complete an FTO search on spinal technology, review the pertinent search results, and draft a summary memorandum. A firm using ClaimBot completed the same work for less than 1/4 of the cost.
ClaimBot® is Straightforward
Traditional FTO investigation, by nature can be opaque to an engineer or business person. ClaimBot software allows the patent attorney to efficiently look across a wide swath of patents, locate like claim limitations, and aggregate these into easily understood "scope concepts."
Law Degree Not Required
An index of these scope concepts can easily and efficiently be communicated to and reviewed by various non-lawyer audiences. This can enable quick but well-understood decision making, even in complex technologies
ClaimBot® is Accurate
The traditional FTO investigation process will be limited by any technical misunderstandings or inaccuracies relied upon by an attorney during nalysis, that are not readily identifiable or visible.
ClaimBot software can provide enough detail to allow real-time identification and correction of any such misunderstanding or inaccuracy.
Lucid Patent's ClaimBot® software produces claim charts that are updatable, reusable, and interactive, allowing concurrent, comprehensive, easily updatable, and accurate screening of claim coverage across hundreds of patents for infringement or protection concerns against an unlimited number of your target products or methods. Download sample claim chart ➥