PATENTS
A Patent is a monopoly right granted to person who has invented a new and useful article or an improvement of an existing article or a new process of making an article. Patents divulge solutions to technical problems and they represent an inexhaustible source of information. Patents provide valuable information which is of immense importance for making crucial decisions across the overall patent prosecution and patent enforcement process.
The following are the services provided by us in the field of Patents:
- Drafting provisional and complete specification.
- Filing of Indian / PCT / Convention/ National phase applications.
- Prosecution of Patent applications before the Indian Patent Office and WIPO.
- Filing the Patent Application at Patent Offices throughout the world in cooperation with our foreign associates.
- Patentability, Validity and Infringement Opinion.
- Litigation: Opposition and Cancellation.
- Prosecution and defense of Patent Rights.
- Licensing and Transfer of technology.
- Comprehensive searches for novelty, prior art, validity and infringement.
PATENT SEARCH
The Patent Search Study is comprised of 3 sections:
We conduct a variety of searches for finding out legal (ownership, inventors, reassignments, claims, etc.) as well as technical information (Prior Art and technical details including drawings) from all the major international patent databases.
Patent Search:
An in depth search by knowledgeable patent person for prior art.
Analysis and Recommendation:
Based on the characteristics of your invention and findings, the attorney in charge of your search will present an analysis and recommendation regarding the probability of obtaining the patent grant (patent copies relevant to your invention will be included).
Patent Application Proposal:
Patent Application Proposal: Our attorneys will prepare a proposal offering you our patent application legal services.
GENERAL SEARCHES
Following different searches are conducted for patents related to any technological or scientific area.
Bibliographic Searches
The point of this type of search is to find out what is covered by a specific patent number or to find out what patents a particular inventor has to his or her credit. Bibliographic searches can be done as a part of historical, biographical or product research.
Pre-Application Searches (PAS)
Initially an invention is just an idea. Many aspects regarding this invention are not even known or recognized as relevant. A preliminary search can provide a good estimate as to how strong a patent the inventor can hope to get. A good search usually provides the basis for defining just what is new and "non-obvious” about an invention and that's the only part you can hope to protect anyway.
State-of-the-Art Searches
Any search designed to give an overview of prior art (technology) in a specific area is called a state-of-the-art search. It is also referred as "Informative Search," it determines the general state-of-the-art for the solution of a given technical problem as background information for R&D activities and in order to know what patent publications already exist in the field of the technology or research. State-of-the-art searches are especially useful for technology development or technology transfer purposes.
Novelty (patentability) Searches / Prior Art Searches
The purpose of novelty search is to determine whether there are any previous patents or printed publication (prior arts) that might prevent the searchers from patenting an idea. Novelty searcher tries to find most closely related patents or printed publication. The aim of the search is to discover relevant prior art.
Family Member search / Equivalent patents search
This search is meant for finding out the family members of a specific patent document. To locate patent family.
CONCEPT SEARCHES
Following different concept searches are conducted for patents related to any Technological or Scientific area.
Freedom to operate search
This type of search is usually used to determine whether a particular action, such as testing or commercializing a product, can be done without infringing valid intellectual property rights of others. Since patents are territorial in nature a freedom to operate search is to be performed separately for each of the prospective markets.
Infringement Analysis
This type of search is performed in order to asses whether the proposed product or process is infringing any valid enforceable patent.
Markets-wise Patent trends Survey
This type of search gives an overall macro view of the patent protection for a particular product/ technology or process in selected markets like USA, Japan, Latin America, China , Africa Etc.
Technology trend Analysis
This type of search traces all the patents related to a selected technology or product/process over a period of time. The closely related patents are organized in chronological manner so as to identify technology development trends. This type of analysis is useful for long term strategic decision making especially for research and development units.
Competitor Intelligence
We conduct various types of highly customized searches that help in monitoring the activities of close competitors. Vital information as to the future strategies of the competitors as well as the direction of their R&D efforts and areas of their interests is gleaned from such searches which provide valuable inputs for the long term strategic planning process.
Special Searches
Special Searches for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Patents/applications
Monthly Patent-Monitoring
Under this service, we provide focused weekly updates on the published Indian patent applications related to specified technological/Competitor (Applicant)/Inventor area as suggested by the subscriber