Patent Risk Management, Digitally Transformed

Clearstone FTO, now with ground-breaking AI capabilities, simplifies and empowers the patent clearance process, streamlining freedom to operate assessments and reducing time-to-market for innovative products.

A Product-Centric Approach to Patent Analysis

Patent clearance is centered on a product under consideration for development or sale. Our architecture is built from the ground up with this in mind.

Claim-by-Claim Determinations

Make decisions on a claim-by-claim basis for detailed analysis, with claim text highlighting and annotation.

Comprehensive Patent Monitoring

Stay at the bleeding edge of competitive intelligence with prosecution and legal status monitoring, family updates, and search query updates.

Product Register with Specifications and Versioning

It all starts with the product. Keep detailed records of products, versions, and modifications to effortlessly track FTO and clearance work across time.

Comprehensive, Efficient, and Accurate FTO Management Solutions

Efficiently Review and Analyze Patents with Digital Precision

Comprehensive Patent Analysis This revolutionary FTO search tool automates and streamlines the often cumbersome patent review process, ensuring both thoroughness and accuracy. The Digital Review eliminates the need for spreadsheets, providing a centralized patent search platform for intellectual property rights evaluation and analysis. Effortlessly export your work to Word or Excel with our freedom to operate FTO search services, making collaboration and reporting seamless. The Digital Review allows you to speed up your patent search and review process with an intuitive interface designed for highlighting, annotating, tagging, and commenting directly on claim text.

Key Features

• Automated Analysis: Save Time with Automated Patent Analysis
• Customizable Filters: Tailor Your Reviews with Customizable Filters
• Detailed Reports: Generate Detailed and Actionable Reports

User-Friendly Interface We've designed our FTO analysis platform with the user in mind. Its intuitive design ensures ease of use, making even complex patent clearance search and review tasks straightforward. No matter your level of expertise, you will be able to confidently navigate the patent analysis process with our platform's user-friendly interface.

Real-Time Updates and Alerts for Your Patent Portfolio

Continuous Patent Surveillance The Patent Monitoring feature in our freedom-to-operate analysis service offers you a proactive approach to patent portfolio management. It continuously tracks the legal status of relevant patents, providing real-time alerts for any changes or updates. This eliminates the need for manual searches, simplifying the monitoring process with an intuitive interface.  Our freedom to operate search tool simplifies the monitoring process with an easy-to-navigate interface, allowing you to focus on your core business. With continuous monitoring, you gain a significant competitive advantage by staying ahead of potential infringements and ensuring the long-term validity of your patent rights.

Key Features

• Real-Time Alerts: Stay Informed with Real-Time Alerts
• ‍Custom Notifications: Customize Notifications to Your Needs
• ‍Comprehensive Database: Access a Wide Range of Patent Data

Foreign Patent Analysis Clearstone FTO breaks down language barriers with its robust existing patent analysis capabilities. Seamlessly analyze existing patents in multiple languages, enhancing your ability to effectively review and interpret foreign active patents. Our FTO patent tools enable you to select claim sets from various languages and conduct deep analysis with multilingual support.

Purpose-Built Workflows Designed for Teams

Streamlined Team Collaboration The patent analysis process is made much easier with the help of Clearstone FTO's Collaboration Tools. The FTO search platform serves as both a real-time communication center and a virtual data room, providing a centralized location for stakeholders to interact, share files, and exchange ideas. This enhanced collaboration leads to improved teamwork, greater efficiency, and streamlined project management, ensuring your team stays aligned and focused.

Key Features

• Shared Workspaces: Work Together in Shared Digital Workspaces
• ‍Commenting and Annotations: Communicate with In-Tool Commenting and Annotations
• ‍Version Control: Manage Changes with Robust Version Control

Integrated Capabilities The Collaboration Tools in our FTO Search platform offer an intuitive and user-friendly design that streamlines your workflow and enhances team productivity. The integrated review functionality and shared reviews allow for seamless collaboration with colleagues, counsel, engineers, and other stakeholders, fostering a more efficient and effective patent analysis process.

Harness the Power of AI for Superior Patent Analysis

Infringement Assessment The AI Suite in our FTO analysis tool revolutionizes patent analysis with its powerful infringement assessment tool. This cutting-edge technology leverages artificial intelligence to accurately identify potential patent infringements and provide detailed analysis to support your decision-making. By automating this complex process, our AI Suite saves you valuable time and resources, while also minimizing the risk of costly legal disputes.

Design Around Solutions Clearstone FTO's AI Suite empowers you to find innovative design solutions that cleverly navigate around potential patent conflicts. The patent AI technology our freedom to operate analysis tool uses meticulously analyzes patent documents to identify alternative design paths, saving you both valuable time and the often exorbitant legal fees associated with patent infringement litigation. 

Specification Evidence Streamline the critical task of gathering and organizing specification evidence for your active patent applications with Clearstone FTO's AI Suite. Our AI-powered FTO search tools efficiently identify and extract relevant information from technical documents, ensuring your applications are well-supported and robust. This meticulous process strengthens your pending patent application in the patent office, increasing their chances of success while saving you valuable time and effort.

Powerful Features Designed for You

Product-Centric Approach

Associate patent reviews with specific products and aspects, access historical product analyses, and utilize product versioning functionality for side-by-side updates. Our Multi-Product Review feature simplifies reviewing patents against multiple product variations or lines.

Role-Based Access Controls

Effortlessly protect attorney-client privilege and ensure secure communication with role-based access controls. With special access profiles for technical and legal reviewers, you decide who gets access and how much access they have.

Leverage Prior Patent Claim Analysis

Avoid duplicative efforts and ensure consistency in claim positions by leveraging prior work for current projects. Our unique review architecture automatically builds institutional knowledge around freedom-to-operate.

Secure, Compliant Technology

Ensure the confidentiality and privacy of your work with industry-leading encryption, authentication, and database provisioning technology. Our platform is SOC2 and GDPR compliant, reflecting our commitment to maintaining the highest cybersecurity standards.