Gehrke & Associates, SC offers professional and exhaustive intellectual property searches. Experienced IP search professionals render opinions based on search results and the legal and business context in which you are working. The service is available as a support service to law firms and directly to consumers and businesses.
Report formats accessible to both legal professionals and the general public. We offer IP Family Charts that distill complex information into easy to understand graphic charts designed to allow quick communication of important information about intellectual property collections and portfolios.
In order to obtain the best results, we screen and cross-reference all intellectual property data using commercial databases and intellectual property databases maintained by individual countries.
We offer many types of intellectual property searches.
For filing or registering
- Patentability searches to analyze the likelihood of acquiring a patent based upon a search of patents and technical literature.
- Registerability searches analyze the likelihood of acquiring a registered trademark based upon a search of current trademark applications and registered marks.
For Conducting Business
- Clearance and infringement patent searches review and analyze current patents to ensure a product may be manufactured without infringing other patents.
- Clearance and infringement trademark searches review and analyze pending and registered trademarks to ensure a trademark may be used without infringing other trademarks.
- Validity searches analyze the strength of an issued patent based upon a search of patents and technical literature.
Information for Better Business
- Competitor searches create and analyze collections of patents and trademarks assigned to a particular competitor.
- Portfolio searches create and analyze collections of patents and trademarks assigned to a corporation, holding company, or subsidiaries.
- Product searches analyze a particular product and create collections of patents and trademarks associated with that product.
- Technology mapping create a map of key patents and assignees within a particular technology.
For Buying and Selling Businesses
- Due diligence searches create and analyze collections of patents and trademarks owned by a business including a comprehensive review of:
legal status information;
chain-of-title/assignment records (security interests);
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) national phase verification data;
European Patent (EP) validation data;
annuity/maintenance fee status records;
international patent families based on priority trees;
LitAlert litigation records;
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) business records; and
full inventor name searches to identify unassigned patents and/or trademarks. |