Reasons to Perform a Validity/Invalidity Search
A validity/invalidity search can be viewed as a more extensive or exhaustive patentability search. Despite the similarities, however, functionally they differ in that the results of a validity search form a basis for weighing the possibility that one or more claims of an issued patent may ultimately be determined to be legally invalid.
Validity of a patent is often at issue when patent rights are being asserted against a would-be infringer of the patent.
Another circumstance in which a validity/invalidity search proves useful is in patent licensing transactions. Particularly, the results of a validity search may be used by a prospective licensee to ascertain the strength of the patent (against potential challenges to its validity), for purposes of valuating a patent license.
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