Freedom to Operate Search


On the other hand, a freedom to operate search looks at an item that you want to build, you want to make it, you want to sell it, and you want to see if other people have patents that may stop you from selling it because you’d be infringing their patents. Sometimes it works both ways. The same patent that will stop you from obtaining a patent is the patent that will also stop you from building an item. But in actuality, they’re two separate things.