What does FTO mean?

FTO is an English abbreviation (free to operate), which roughly means that technology implementers can freely implement it without infringing others' patents. It is mainly used to analyze valid patents and invalid existing technologies, so as to prove that the current "technology" can be implemented without infringing others' patents. The specific application is to do a good job in patent risk investigation before the product goes on the market, otherwise, once caught in a patent infringement case, the losses caused to the company will be tens of millions. So our boss invited an intellectual property agency called Dianzhiyuan to do FTO analysis before the new product went on the market, and the analysis scheme was very professional and the service attitude was very good.