| R&D / Product Development |
Patent Watch |
Periodic updates on issued/filed patents to see if there are any patents of interest |
| Landscape Analysis |
Get insight into a technology
domain – filing trends, hot areas,
key players, key inventors,
preferred markets, etc. |
| State-of-the-art Searches |
Identify technologies / solutions corresponding to a technical problems/challenges |
| Freedom-to-use/operate Study |
Proactively evaluate the risk of infringing on any active patent
and take appropriate steps |
| IP Creation |
Patentability/Novelty Search |
Patent, redesign/improve or dump an invention - technical opinion on the novelty of an invention |
| Patent Drafting |
Prepare a quality patent application that can avoid unnecessary expenses during prosecution and withstand future litigation |
| Office Action Response |
Prepare a valid argument differentiating your invention from the prior art |
| Patent Proof Reading |
Proactively secures patent from errors that can impact patents enforceability. |
| IP Management |
Invalidation/Validity Search |
Comprehensive search for prior
art that can render a patent
invalid - patent literature,
scientific journals, product specifications, articles, news and advertisements actions |
| Portfolio Analysis |
Identify R&D focus areas for future, patents for abandonment, dormant patents and strong & weak areas.
Rank patents and identify quality patents. |
| Competitive Benchmarking |
Compare your patent portfolio against that of your competitor – relative position, strengths & weakness, R&D focus, overall patent activity, etc. |
| Overlap Analysis |
Map competitors products against your patent portfolio to identify infringement |
| IP Commercialization |
Patent Valuation |
Determine value of the patent with fairly accurate valuation models |
| Licensing Analysis |
Identify patents with out-licensing potential, targets for licensing and critical information about targets to decide on licensing partner |
