How is FTO different from a prior art search?
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“A prior art search asks whether your invention is new, against everything ever published. FTO asks whether your product infringes claims that are alive today, in the territories where you will make, use, sell, import, or export it. Different corpus, different date logic, different grading, and a different deliverable: a counsel memo, not a novelty report.”
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