Advanced materials patents are deeply embedded in scientific literature. Kwintely's unified index searches patents and scientific papers together, surfacing prior art that exists only in journals alongside the patent claims that cite it.
Materials science prior art is unusually distributed between patents and academic journals. Many patent challenges in advanced materials are won using journal publications rather than prior patents. Kwintely's combined index means you see both sides of the prior art landscape from the start.
Material patents cover composition, processing method, and application claims. Kwintely maps all three simultaneously from a single material description.
Many novel material formulations have prior art only in scientific literature. Kwintely surfaces journal prior art alongside patents in a single query.
FTO for novel material formulations before licensing or scale-up. Clear results without requiring IPC expertise in materials classification.
Identify where your novel material sits in the global IP landscape ... and where the whitespace is for defensible IP.
Each workflow below runs on the same foundational index. Start with the one that matches your most urgent question.
The same context search runs from inventor disclosure through prosecution to IPR. At the disclosure desk it tells you whether a draft is worth filing in 90...
Explore workflow → Operational LevelA patent landscape maps who is filing what, where, how fast, and in which sub-domains ... across the entire global patent corpus. Traditional landscape...
Explore workflow → Case LevelFreedom to Operate analysis determines whether a technology can be commercialised without infringing valid patent claims. Traditional FTO relies on keyword...
Explore workflow → Operational LevelR&D organisations run multiple parallel innovation projects. Without systematic prior art checking at the project intake stage, teams invest months of...
Explore workflow → Strategy LevelTechnology roadmaps built on analyst reports lag the actual innovation front by two to three years. The earliest available signal of where a technology is...
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