101 & 102 Prior Art

Prometheus IP has extensively worked on a number of USA patent litigation assignments where our technical analysts worked with patent attorneys and reported 101 & 102 prior art results.

• Analyzing claims of the subject patent to understand how an inventive step is protected.
• Through analysis of file-history to frame search strategies based on the inventive step and the technical aspects discussed during examination.
• In depth analysis of examiner and applicant cited references.

• Thorough technical understanding of subject patent claims and detailed description.
• Detailed review of subject patent bibliographic details and image file wrapper details.
• Detailed review of subject patent family members and prosecution details of the family members.
• Detailed review of forward and backward citations of subject patent and family members.
• Framing search strategies to uncover the prior-art based on keywords, assignee, inventors, citations (forward and backward), patent classification codes (US,CPC, IPC, ECLA and F terms).
• Handling IP/Non-IP queries utilizing the specialized databases.
• Detailed analysis of search results describing the similarities and deviations.

• An Excel file depicting the claim chart with different sections of potential publications disclosing the claim(s) subject to 35 USC 101 & 102.
• Reporting format includes a quick analysis table and claim chart that would help to quickly understand output of the search report with respect to 35 USC 101 & 102.
• Report including patent and non- patent literature results.
• PDF copies of both patent and non-patent literature listed in the search report.