Freedom-To-Operate Services
Lagerman Subsidium offer affordable and comprehensive Freedom-To-Operate (FTO) services designed to enhance your understanding of your specific life science sector. With our deep expertise in both business development and intellectual property rights (IPR), our FTO services go beyond traditional IPR analysis by incorporating market positioning, partnering opportunities, and strategic input to ensure that your product not only avoids infringement risks but also thrives in a competitive market.
What is FTO?
Freedom to Operate (FTO) refers to the ability of a company to commercialize a product without infringing on the valid IPR of others. Conducting an FTO analysis helps identify potential patent risks early in the development process as well as enabling you to make informed decisions about your product's market strategy. By conducting an FTO analysis early in your product development cycle, you can reduce infringement risks, avoid costly litigation, align your IP strategy with business goals, and ensure a smoother path to commercialization.
What kind of FTO services do we offer?
We specialize in performing comprehensive FTO services tailored specifically for life science companies. What sets us apart is our ability to integrate business development insights into our FTO analysis, helping you in market positioning, identification of partnering opportunities, and strategic input for both your commercialization and IPR strategy.
  • Patent Landscape Analysis
    We conduct detailed searches of patents relevant to your technology. This includes analyzing patent assignees, filing trends, and categorization of technologies, and understanding the competitive landscape.
  • Detailed Patent Claim Analysis
    We carefully examine the claims of relevant patents to determine their scope of protection and how they relate to your technology. This includes identifying specific technologies, materials, and processes covered by the patent claims, and considering novelty, potential infringement, and strategic importance.
  • Infringement Risk Assessment
    We assess whether your technology could potentially infringe on existing patents. This includes analyzing overlapping technologies and claim breadth as well as highlighting the unique aspects of your technology that differentiate it from competitors.
  • Market Considerations & Mitigation Strategies
    We analyze the competitive landscape and market trends to align your FTO analysis with your business strategy. This includes value proposition development, design-around strategies to avoid infringement, considerations on licensing opportunities, and other key differentiators in how to position your product.
  • Ongoing Monitoring
    We offer continuous monitoring services to keep you informed about any changes that could impact your freedom to operate to ensures that you remain proactive in managing IP risks throughout the lifecycle of your product. This includes tracking new patent filings relevant for your technology, observing competitor activities, and providing updates on emerging risks or opportunities.
Why Choose Us?
When it comes to FTO analysis for life science companies, we understand the unique challenges you face in navigating complex patent landscapes while developing innovative products. Our approach goes beyond traditional legal analysis by combining deep expertise in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and other life science sectors, with deep expertise in business modeling, productification, and market analysis. This combination enables us to provide strategic input for both your commercialization and intellectual property rights (IPR) strategy.
Your main point of contact will be Alexander Lagerman, an IPR expert with over a decade of experience in the life science industry. With an educational background in Bioscience Business, Molecular Biology, and Corporate Economics, Alexander has collaborated with more than 50 life science projects across various sectors including drug development (antibodies, peptides, drug delivery systems), immunotherapies (vaccines, viral therapies), medical devices (dry-eye management systems, dental equipment), diagnostics (genetic testing, cardiovascular diagnostics, biomarker identification, PET tracers. imaging technologies) microfluidic devices (lab-on-a-chips, graphene-based biosensors, assays, microdroplets), lab tools & consumables (reagents & labels, disease models, 3D cell cultures, extracellular vesicle isolation), biologics production (cell line engineering, purification methodologies), CRO (ADME studies, immunogenicity assessments).
How to Contact Us?
Every innovation is different, which is why we offer customized FTO analyses tailored specifically to your goals. Whether you are preparing for clinical trials or planning a product launch, we are here to help you navigate the complex world of intellectual property with confidence. Please feel free to contact us today for a consultation and learn how we can help protect your business while driving innovation forward.
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