ClearstoneIP Overview
ClearstoneIP is a pioneering intellectual property (IP) technology provider that has revolutionized the process of freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis and patent management through its innovative platforms.
Product Overview
ClearstoneIP offers several key products, but its core offerings center around the Clearstone FTO and Clearstone Innovator platforms.
Clearstone FTO
The Clearstone FTO platform is a cloud-based workflow solution designed to digitally manage the FTO process, accelerating patent clearance and product development. Here are its key features:
- Centralized Workflow Management: This platform provides a centralized environment for managing the entire FTO process, from identifying subject matter to reporting risk assessments to stakeholders.
- Six-Stage FTO Framework: Known as The Digital Review, this framework includes stages for conducting patent searches, reviewing patent claims, collaborating with technical experts, resolving final determinations, and reporting risk assessments.
- Collaboration Tools: The platform facilitates critical collaboration between in-house counsel, R&D teams, business units, and outside counsel, ensuring efficient and effective management of patent infringement risk.
- Institutional Knowledge Base: Clearstone FTO automatically creates a historical analysis knowledge base from prior projects, eliminating duplicative work and ensuring consistent legal positions across different reviews.
- Security and Compliance: The platform is rigorously built on core principles of security, confidentiality, and privacy, and is SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant.
Clearstone Innovator
The Clearstone Innovator is an elimination-based patent analysis platform that transforms how patent portfolios are evaluated and managed.
- Elimination-Based Search: Unlike traditional search methods, Innovator focuses on features not embodied by a product, allowing users to narrow down relevant patents by eliminating those that require specific claim elements. This approach significantly reduces the time and cost associated with clearance searches.
- Claim Coverage Analysis: The platform is particularly suited for searches based on claim coverage, such as product-to-patent mapping and FTO investigations, rather than prior art or invalidity searches.
- Annotation Mode: Innovator includes an intuitive annotation process that allows users to memorialize claim analysis. This process involves creating a custom element hierarchy representative of concepts claimed by patents, which helps in quickly identifying potentially infringed patents.
- Efficiency and Repeatability: The platform minimizes duplicative analysis by allowing users to memorialize and reuse previous claim analyses, making subsequent searches more efficient.
Key Functionality
- Multi-Level Analysis: Both platforms intelligently extract key patent information from various data sources to facilitate multi-level analysis and capture, ensuring comprehensive and accurate results.
- Environmental Controls: ClearstoneIP’s platforms preserve attorney-client privilege through robust environmental controls, ensuring the confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
- Global Deployment: ClearstoneIP’s solutions are deployed globally with law firms and corporate IP departments, supporting thousands of users in managing their patent clearance and FTO processes efficiently.
In summary, ClearstoneIP’s products are designed to modernize and streamline the FTO analysis and patent management processes, offering efficient workflows, advanced collaboration tools, and innovative analytical methodologies that significantly reduce the time and cost associated with patent clearance and product development.