Navigate Patent Barriers

InvenGen can help 'design-around' crowded intellectual property spaces. It is common for product development teams to be faced with patents that block their freedom to practice designs. Efforts to get around patent barriers can many times be ineffective and incomplete. InvenGen professionals have demonstrated proficiency in exercising their skills to systematically search for and find candidate variant designs. Usable designs exist close to the target intellectual property space in over half the cases of competitive patents we have reviewed. You can have the freedom to move quickly around IP barriers and on to the marketplace. Review a case study of a changing flash angle camera strobe.

Optical System Component Case Study

Issue: A Fortune 500 manufacturer of surgical consoles was losing sales on disposables related to the unit because a competitor's patent blocked their use of an optical adaptor. 'Design-around' solutions were deemed impossible by the company's large R&D organization and several of their corporate patent attorneys.

Solution: Patent barrier defeating methods were systematically employed to describe the adaptor in terms of its elemental functions. Solutions to modify claim element means were found from completely different industries and adapted to the design element functions in order to create new configurations for the adaptor.

Result: Fourteen different design variations were discovered which were very close to the target patent design but did not infringe. A final design was selected, found acceptable by the corporate attorney staff, and presented to R&D. The new adaptor met all the product design specifications and did not infringe the barrier patent.

InvenGen and our members who provides these patent barrier defeating services are inventors of over 80 patents using these methods. We can help you navigate around your tough patent barrier challenges.