Freedom to operate (FTO) search with AI

IPRALLY SEARCH

Freedom to Operate searches, simplified by AI

Reduce legal risks, accelerate time-to-market, and commercialize with confidence using IPRally’s AI-driven search tools.

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, IAM 200 firms and major PTOs

Case Study

IPRally search

Reduce FTO risk with AI-powered, technology-led searching

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FTO Search

Incomplete or irrelevant Freedom to Operate (FTO) search results can put your business at risk of costly litigation, product delays, and wasted resources. Whether you're managing intellectual property, leading R&D, or advising clients, missing critical patents can derail projects and hinder your success.

With IPRally, you can quickly identify relevant patents and pending applications, reducing risks and ensuring you move forward with confidence. Leading innovators have already cut search times by 50% and avoided costly oversights, often discovering patents that traditional Boolean searches would miss.

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“Our prior art searches related to FTO investigations have improved drastically with IPRally. It’s safe to say that IPRally has reduced the time we spend on prior art searches by well over 50%.”

Vinzenz Frauchiger

Patent Expert, YPSOMED

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How YPSOMED Uses IPRally for FTO

How it works

How does a FTO search work in IPRally?

Use IPRally’s suite of AI tools to conduct FTO searches at ease whilst reducing risk, saving time, improving clarity and ultimately increasing the confidence of your FTO projects.

Step 1

Define the product or feature

Describe what you're shipping in plain language — the feature, the mechanism, the materials. No claim drafting needed.

Step 2

Search live claims in target markets

The engine reads in-force claims, not just abstracts — filtered to the jurisdictions where you'll make, use, or sell.

Step 3

Review claim scope, not just similarity

Assess how broadly each claim reaches. Ask AI interrogates claim language; views put the claim beside your feature.

Step 4

Watch the landscape move

Set monitoring so new filings and grants in your space surface as they publish.

UI showing description of a smart sun-tracking solar panel system with sensor-adjusted panel tilt and actuator.

Legal status filter with active and unknown checked, important dates and country selection dropdown visible.

Interface showing patent US8966XXXX on a solar tracking system with sensor-controlled tilt adjustment and claim overlap info.

Email notification settings showing weekly reports on 20 new patents including sun-tracking solar panel system.

Agent

Hand your FTO search to IPRally Agent

Upload your search materials and let Agent conduct an FTO search and analysis on your behalf using curated workflows. Set your strategy and let Agent handle the rest.

Coming Soon

FTO analysis, wherever you work

The same grounded FTO analysis in the app, inside your AI tools through MCP, or built into your own systems over the API. Platform-agnostic by design.

Search interface showing results for ceramic-coated polyolefin separator with match percentages.

why iprally

Every answer rests on evidence.

Grounded

Every search, answer, and draft is grounded in real patents, paragraphs, and citations

Speed to answer

From question to confident answer in minutes, not days or weeks.

Accessibility

IPRally carries true patent expertise, so every team member across the innovation cycle can produce expert-level work.

Strategic

Patent intelligence is presented in a way in which organisations can make real, impactful decisions.

“With IPRally we can focus more on the material aspects of the results and less on the actual search process.”

Vinzenz Frauchiger

Patent Expert

Simon Markström

Partner, European Patent Attorney

"IPRally has become an invaluable asset to our firm."

Time to answers

75%

Customers cut the time spent on patent research by up to 75%, taking tasks and decisions that took days down to hours.

Experience

2018

Over 8 years of experience training proprietary patent AI on real examiner decisions, refined by feedback from thousands of professionals.

PTOs

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Six major patent offices use IPRally to search prior art, alongside 4,000+ professionals at Fortune 500 companies and IAM 200 law firms.

product

Customer Success Stories

Learn how we helped some of the world's most innovative organizations, law firms and PTOs navigate the patent lifecycle from patentability to assessments, macro analysis and protecting IP.

How Ypsomed spends 50% less time on FTO studies thanks to IPRally

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Time saved

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Time saved

How Ypsomed spends 50% less time on FTO studies thanks to IPRally

How Melexis use IPRally to reduce their time spent on patentability studies by 75%

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Grant rate

90%

Grant rate

How Melexis use IPRally to reduce their time spent on patentability studies by 75%

How DeLaval use IPRally to find prior art that conventional methods miss

How IPRally provides immediate answers to Laine IP and their clients

Security

Your security, our priority

At IPRally, we prioritize the security and privacy of your data. Our platform adheres to the highest standards of enterprise security and compliance to ensure your information is always protected.

ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Certified

Independently verified, enterprise-grade security certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.

Zero data retention

Nothing you search or draft is stored by ourselves or our partner LLM providers or used to train any model.

Encryption in transit and at rest

Every search, request, draft, disclosure, and document encrypted while it moves and where it lives.

Regional data processing

IPRally runs on dedicated EU and US Google Cloud Platform environments, so your data stays in the region you need.