The world’s top smartphone rivals have been in court over patents since 2011, when Apple filed a lawsuit alleging that Samsung’s smartphones and tablets “slavishly” copied its products. Jury Awards Apple $539 Million in Samsung Patent Case.
Without filing a patent on your design, you may run the risk of a copycat design being used by competitors.
We have access to multiple databases : Orbit design, Patbase, Thomson Innovation, XLPAT, Global Design Database and Other public databases.
Methodology
We follow a detailed process to scrutinize the key elements for every design.
- Analysing Locarno classes
- Citation based search
- Keyword based search
- Assignee/Owner based search
- Product based search
- Similarity-based search