Dismantle weak patents with undeniable prior art. We find the "silver bullet" required to win in litigation and PTAB proceedings.
When your company is targeted by a patent infringement lawsuit or a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE), the most effective defense is often to prove that the plaintiff's patent should never have been granted in the first place. An invalidation search aims to find public disclosures (prior art) that existed before the patent's filing date, proving the invention was not novel or was obvious.
Standard searches often fail because they rely on basic keyword matching in patent databases. At WhiteSeaCo, we go off the grid to find the art that others miss.
We treat every invalidation search like a high-stakes digital forensics investigation.
We don't just read the claims; we abstract the core physics, logic, and mechanics of the invention. This allows us to search for the same concept in completely unrelated industries (e.g., finding a medical device mechanism in an old aerospace manual).
The best prior art is rarely another patent. We scour academic journals, archived developer forums, physical product manuals, university theses, and declassified government documents.
A massive amount of prior art exists outside the English-speaking internet. Our native-speaking experts search Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Russian databases, and we frequently track down physical, non-digitized media like microfilms and VHS tapes.
We don't just hand you a stack of documents. We provide comprehensive, color-coded claim charts that map the prior art directly to the elements of the target patent, ready to be handed to your litigation team or submitted to the PTAB.