Patent and trademark searches are an essential part of effective intellectual property portfolio management. We offer the following search and analysis services:
Patent
Patentability -- Analyze the likelihood of acquiring a patent for a particular invention based upon a search of patents and technical literature.
Clearance/Infringement -- Review and analyze current patents to ensure a product may be manufactured without infringing other patents.
Competitor -- Create and analyze collections of domestic and international patents assigned to a particular competitor.
Validity -- Analyze the strength of a patent based upon a search of patents and technical literature.
Portfolio -- Create and analyze collections of domestic and international patents assigned to a corporation, holding company, and/or subsidiaries.
Product -- Analyze a particular product and create collections of domestic and international patents associated with that product.
Technology Mapping -- Create a map of key patents and assignees within a particular technology.
Due Diligence -- Create and analyze collections of domestic and international patents owned by a legal entity including a comprehensive review of:
v legal status information;
v chain-of-title/assignment records (security interests);
v Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) national
v phase verification data;
v European Patent (EP) validation data;
v annuity/maintenance fee status records;
v international patent families based on priority trees;
v litigation records;
v full inventor name searches to identify unassigned patents.
Trademark
Registerability -- Analyze the likelihood of registering a trademark based upon a search of current common law trademark sources, trademark applications and registered marks.
Clearance/Infringement -- Review and analyze pending and registered trademarks to ensure a trademark may be used without infringing other trademarks.
Competitor -- Create and analyze collections of domestic and international trademarks assigned to a particular competitor.
Portfolio -- Create and analyze collections of domestic international trademarks assigned to a corporation, holding company, and/or subsidiaries.
Product -- Analyze a particular product and create collections of domestic and international patents and trademarks associated with that product.
Due Diligence -- Create and analyze collections of domestic and international trademarks owned by a legal entity including a comprehensive review of:
v legal status information;
v chain-of-title/assignment records (security interests);
v Madrid Protocol filings
v national phase verification data;
v maintenance fee status records; and,
v litigation records.
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