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When is the best time for a company to do FTO?

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2023-03-03 18:04

Start-ups often come to Huaxun to ask questions about FTO, the most common being when FTO is the most appropriate time to do it.

Hua Xun in the earlyWe have been engaged in this service since 2015. Let's talk about it today.

I had the privilege of contacting last year.Two FTO businesses, namely, Suzhou Xinrui and Wuhan Jingwei, which are invested by Northern Lights.

     Under normal circumstances, the best time to do FTO(freedom to operate) is to prepare for mass production on the basis of the prototype (Protype) of the product before it is put on the market.

Why do you want to choose this time, because this time the product is more stereotyped, there will be no large-scale modification.

"Choice is greater than effort", the author's humble opinion that patents are also suitable for this statement.

The first case was done too early, and the research and development department saw this one.The FTO report will laugh bitterly because they may have made new discoveries or revised the R & D report and have to do it again before the product goes on sale, wasting the cost.

The second one is done too late. At this time, it is found that there is a high degree of infringement. The product has been finalized and the redesign will cost a lot of money.

The third case: after the product prototype is determined, the enterprise will do it before it goes into production.FTO will also be in an awkward position. If the enterprise has not yet been put into production but the research and development is basically over, what should be done if a large number of infringements are found according to the FTO report at this time? The cost of overturning or extensive changes cannot be controlled, and the product development time is strict.

 

Patent infringement analysis is a systematic engineering work, it is recommended to firmly grasp the front end of research and development. We started with analysis and will advise our customers to do an overall patent analysis to avoid higher-risk areas in the embryonic stage of the concept, which we can simply call"Patent Alert".

"Walking on two feet" would be more secure.

Front-end to do more patent overall analysis,"Grinding the knife and not cutting firewood by mistake", firmly grasp the initiative to avoid the main patent risks in the early stage, why not do it?

FTO is actually the result of further confirming the overall analysis of patents. At this time, we will look back and Freedom to operate: the technology implementer is free to implement without infringing on the patent rights of others.