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FTO Search & Patent Risk Analysis

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About Course

This professional program is designed to develop practical skills in Freedom to Operate (FTO) searching, claim-centric patent analysis, patent risk assessment, legal status analysis, and AI-assisted patent research.

Participants will learn how to define products and processes for FTO analysis, develop claim-focused search strategies, identify potentially relevant patents, analyze patent families and legal status, map product features against patent claims, and categorize infringement risks.

The program combines FTO search methodology, claim construction, patent family analysis, legal status assessment, AI-assisted claim analysis, risk mapping, and practical project work. Participants will complete a real-world FTO project and prepare a professional FTO opinion support report.

 

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What Will You Learn?

  • FTO Search & Patent Risk Analysis is a practical professional program focused on Freedom-to-Operate research, claim-centric patent searching, claim construction, patent family analysis, legal status analysis, product-to-claim mapping, and patent risk assessment. Participants learn how to define products and technologies for FTO analysis, identify relevant patents, analyze independent and dependent claims, evaluate patent families, assess legal status, and determine potential patent risks across relevant jurisdictions.
  • The program integrates AI-assisted claim decomposition, semantic search, prior-art discovery, claim comparison, risk categorization, evidence development, and professional FTO reporting. Through practical exercises and a final FTO project, participants develop search strategies, relevant patent datasets, claim mappings, evidence tables, risk matrices, and professional FTO reports. Course Outcome: Participants will develop the skills required to work as an FTO Patent Analyst.

Course Content

Introduction to Patent Searching

  • Saturday: Patent Fundamentals & Types of Intellectual Property
  • Sunday: Patent Searching Fundamentals & Search Objectives

Understanding Patent Documents

Invention Understanding

Keyword Search Fundamentals

Patent Database Searching

Classification-Based Searching

Patent Claims Searching

Applicant, Assignee & Inventor Searching

Patent Family Searching

Citation Searching

Prior Art Identification

Search Refinement

Practical Patent Searching

Advanced Basic Searching Practice

Final Patent Search Project

Final Assessment & Certification