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Freedom to operate

By Alexander SchmidtIn AllgemeinPosted 7. February 2023

FTO stands for "freedom to operate." It refers to the legal ability of a company or individual to use, manufacture, or sell a particular product or process without infringing any existing patent or other intellectual property rights held by other companies or individuals. Companies may conduct FTO searches or analyses...

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Patent Searching – Freedom to Operate or Patentability?

By Dr. Robert HarrisonIn Allgemein, GeneralPosted 13. May 2021

Let's suppose that you have developed a new product and you want to carry out a prior art search of existing patents. There's often a misconception about the objectives for a search. There's often confusion between a search based on "freedom to operate" and "patentability". In some cases, the main...

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