Building Patent Portfolios: Advising Innovators, Companies and Institutions
We help inventors realize value from their innovations by working closely with them to identify patentable inventions, understand their overall research and business strategy, and lay out smart patent strategies to help protect these innovations. Our team of science + engineering educated patent practitioners really understand both technology and patent law, and serve as a bridge to communicate and advocate on behalf of our inventors with patent offices around the world.
Patents Drafting and Prosecution
Our team of patent attorneys and scientists are well qualified to understand your invention and to define the scope of protection you are seeking. Our technical experts are capable of reviewing invention disclosures at an early stage and provide suggestions about what additional information to add to the applications. We are extremely experienced in the ability to review invention disclosures and creatively brainstorm ways to extract and claim all possible patentable subject matter from your invention. Additionally, we advise on the possible types of protection and claims available for each type of invention in different jurisdictions.
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
- Biomaterials & Medical Devices
- Chemical Engineering & Material Science
- Electronics, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
- Mathematical Solutions, Computer Science & Software
- Optics & Physics
Patent Portfolio Development and Management
Our professional team can assist you in developing the right patent portfolio to best protect your company’s core inventions as well as to defend against potential competitors.
We are a full-service patent firm and can help you from start to finish: first creating a sound patent strategy and developing a portfolio based on that strategy; then drafting and/or filing your patent applications worldwide; finally managing the various deadlines associated with patent prosecution until patent grant and keeping track of any later maintenance fees.
Throughout the patent life cycle, we provide status reports on the portfolio, monitor deadlines, advise on substantive matters, and continually align patent strategies with your business plans.
IP Strategy Counselling
Developing and maintaining an effective IP strategy are essential steps in building, protecting and managing your IP assets. Our team can help you analyse your IP needs and determine how best to protect, trade, license, and enforce your IP within your available budget. We offer strategic advice about how to manage and leverage the maximum advantage from your IP.
For companies and institutions with R&D, our technical experts are capable of fully understanding your invention and deriving the right overall strategy to best protect your invention. Every single one of our patent practitioners has at least one or more degrees in science or engineering, half of whom have PhDs. Our professional knowledge of search databases helps you to develop strategies to work around prior art and to challenge existing patents. Our team can help you understand the patent landscape and analyze third party patents which might affect commercial activities of the new inventions (freedom to operate issues). We can help you at every step of the way, from drafting your patent applications, trading/licensing your IP, prosecuting infringers to dealing with validity issues.
Patentability and Freedom Searches
Our multi-lingual team enables us to effectively search through prior art in different jurisdictions and conduct the analysis in-house. We can provide a simple cursory review with basic relevance ranking, and also provide full analysis/opinions on patentability and/or freedom to operate.
Design Registration
Registration of a design provides the owner with a property right in relation to the subject matter of the registration and protects the appearance of the whole or a part of a product.
We have a team of specialists who can help you prepare applications and register your new designs.
Invalidation
Our Chinese patent attorneys have extensive experience in the entire invalidation processes, including prior art search in English and Chinese, prior art analysis, drafting and filing invalidation requests before the Patent Re-examination Board (PRB) and attending oral hearing at the National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA).
Patent and Technology Due Diligence
For those who are interested in investing in technology originating from Asia, we can investigate risks and liabilities through patentability, enforceability, and clearance investigations, technology/trade secret review and claim scope analysis. Our advice is based on our in-depth knowledge of the Chinese culture, legal system and way of doing business.
For companies that are negotiating with potential Chinese investors, we can assist you in formulating business and IP strategies, and responding to queries from the Chinese investors.
IP Enforcement
We work closely with US and foreign law firms to manage IP litigation in countries throughout the world. We assist clients in developing a holistic and effective enforcement strategy and then work with attorneys and investigators worldwide to manage the investigation, litigation and other kinds of actions such as administrative actions to bring about the most cost-effective and desirable outcome.
IP Transactions/Licensing
We can assist in various steps along the way of a transaction that involves IP, whether it be a patent licensing deal, a joint research collaboration that involves the generation of IP, or a patent acquisition. We work with our partners to guide you through every step of the process, from the evaluation of the IP (due diligence) and the initial term sheet to the drafting and negotiation of the final IP transactional agreement (patent license, patent assignment, etc., joint research agreement).
