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Two questions worth paying to answer.
Most patent work arrives as one of two situations. Either somebody has pointed a patent at you and there is a date on the letter, or the ground ahead of you is open and you cannot tell how much of it is worth holding.
Both are answerable. Neither is answerable by a keyword search.
Defense
Before you commit six figures, find out how much of the threat is real.
Someone has pointed a patent at your product and given you thirty days to respond. The instinct is to price litigation. The useful first step is to find out how much of the threat survives contact with the claims.
What we map
The assertor's actual position rather than the one the letter describes: what they hold, what is still pending, what they have enforced before, and which invalidity theories other defendants have already paid to develop. That research exists, it is public, and it is free.
What we test
Your exposure, element by element, worked from the claim text pulled out of the patent itself and never from the demand letter. Letters misquote their own claims more often than people expect, and we have caught it.
What you do about it
Where you are exposed, we engineer the routes out and price each one against what your product actually needs to keep doing. A design around that kills the product is not a design around, so every route we hand over is costed against what taking it would lose you.
What you receive
A package your counsel can act on: the technical record, and a register of the legal questions your attorney needs to answer. We are not a law firm and we issue no legal opinions.
Flagship
Every portfolio is a map of what its owner thought was worth owning.
It is therefore also a map of what they left open. We read the fences in a crowded field and find the ground beside them that nobody holds.
Three filters, not one
Unpatented ground is easy to find and usually worthless. A position has to clear all three tests to reach your register: genuinely unclaimed, plausibly able to survive examination, and something you commercially want to do.
The third filter is where most white space work falls apart. In a crowded field the obvious combinations are already fenced or were never patentable, and a report unwilling to say so is a list of ideas rather than a strategy.
The trap nobody checks
We test every candidate against the incumbent's pending continuations. The most attractive adjacent position is usually exactly where their next amendment is pointed. Occupy it, publish, and they amend on top of you.
What you receive
A ranked register of scored positions with the reasoning shown, and candidate claim architecture for your patent attorney to take forward.
The boundary
What we are not.
Kenorai provides technical and analytical intelligence. We are not a law firm, we do not represent clients before the USPTO, and we issue no legal opinions. Where our work reaches a legal conclusion, it stops and hands your attorney the question.
Several of our services analyse two parties at once. Conflict and confidentiality walls are set per engagement before any work begins.
Start
Tell us which of the two you are in.
If there is a letter with a date on it, say so first. If the ground is open, tell us what you are building and where you think the gaps are.
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