Tom Wolff retired in 2021. This website provides access to publications and other aspects of his former career.

He provided expertise as a searcher to:

• Find critical prior art to support your patent opinions or business decisions.
• Help analyze competitive landscape.
• Augment your team’s capacity short or long-term for search and analysis.

He provided the following services:

• Research and analysis: clearance/freedom-to-operate/infringement, invalidity/validity, patentability/novelty, and state-of-the-art searches using indexing, classification and structure search techniques.
• Technical competitive intelligence: know your customers, suppliers and competitors.
• Monitoring and tracking: ongoing current awareness searches.

You could count on him to be your partner from discovery through delivery and beyond:

• He would define your requirements through personal contact.
• He would refine iteratively to get you what you need at right time, in right format, at right cost.
• He would deliver as promised.
• He would revisit your needs to insure complete satisfaction.

Customers included Fortune 100 petroleum and chemical companies, established and startup technology companies, and law firms.

Download:

• Mistakes Happen: A Patentability Case Study
• Enhanced Patent Search Systems Revolutionize Searching
• Freedom-to-Operate Search Strategy: Hitting the Target
• Freedom-to-Operate Patent Searching: My Six Basic Rules
• What’s So Special about Patent Invalidity Searching?
• Patents in the Realm of Independent Information Professionals