Right to Use / Freedom to Operate Search

Right to Use Search is also called Freedom to Operate (FTO) search or Freedom to Practice (FTP) search. Some people also call it Clearance Search or Infringement Search.

Our FTP search includes a comprehensive search for unexpired Japanese granted patents and pending patent applications. We can also perform FTO search in Chinese or Korean if your target market is China or Korean. We can get detailed legal status information including file history/file wrapper for a specific patent.

The search we perform is aimed to determine if a specific product or method has freedom to operate in any particular country such as in Japan, China, Korean or other Asian countries or regions.