Technology Protection
Technology protection provides a strategic business advantage. StratIP provides sophisticated intellectual property services to technology and research clients in a wide range of industries. Some of our specific industry practice areas include electrical, mechanical, healthcare and medical devices, semiconductors, software, retail and consumer products, and business methods.
The services that we offer include review and strategizing of technology development and its protection in one or many jurisdictions throughout the world. Our IP professionals have gained experience in a range of technical disciplines both in academia and industry prior to entering the legal field.
Our specific offerings include:
We really understand the value of your ideas. We are as excited to protect them as you are in their creation and market potential. Our IP professionals counsel and assist clients in acquisition and protection of all forms of intellectual property, with a primary focus on patent rights. From the entrepreneur striving to organize and finance a start up venture, to the corporation seeking to protect and expand their market share, StratIP provides critical intellectual property law services that will help them realize their strategic goals. Preparation, filing and prosecution of India and United States patents, are all done with an eye toward maximizing protection. StratIP also maintains contacts throughout the world and can assist in securing rights where our clients’ markets take them.
Patent searching is an integral component of the IP lifecycle from patent prosecution through enforcement and protection to portfolio optimization, and the search should provide the most reliable information to the client. StratIP provides comprehensive, consistent and accurate results that you can trust. Searches may be perfomed with both offensive (e.g., patentability) and defensive (e.g., freedom to practice, patent invalidity) goals in mind.
At StratIP, we ensure that all patent searches conform to specific guidelines and procedures. Our patent search procedures include understanding and documentation of the client's desired search feature, establishment of pertinent classifications to be searched and definition of a search strategy using the best available databases of patent and/or non-patent literature. This is followed by an exhaustive search and development of a report of the search findings that undergoes final review and quality assurance before delivery to the client.
We customize the effort spent on each patent search to meet particular client requirements, while delivering high quality deliverables achieved within the budget set. Our search reports include the scope of the invention based upon the requirements of the client, the databases and sources utilised for the search, search strategies and patent classifications. Relevant references are highlighted and where requested a detailed analysis of each patent reference is provided.
The patent field is growing each year both in terms of the number of patents filed and the complexity of the applied and granted patents. Today, patents have become a focal point for business strategies for companies in a wide array of industries. As globalization sweeps through virtually every industry, companies often require filing their patents in more than one country in order to ensure protection.
StratIP’s patent practice provides sophisticated patent services to technology clients in a wide range of industries. Our team assists clients in many different technology areas to strategically acquire and protect patent rights in the United States and in foreign countries. Our IP professionals have experience in managing patent portfolios for major companies and organizations.
New invention disclosures, whether compiled by client team or flagged by a client for development by the StratIP team, are reviewed to develop a strategy for preparation and filing of new patent applications (originally in India, the U.S., or internationally, as the client prefers). Our team will contact inventors and our clients’s in-house legal and business departments (where required) telephonically or in person to ensure a thorough understanding of the inventions. Further, we develop and summarize strategies for clients’ approval, followed by preparation and filing of corresponding patent applications.
We strive to provide broad yet focused claim coverage for the patents we obtain for our clients. Working within our clients’ strategic business and cultural definitions, we help determine the inventions and patents of importance that speak to their business objectives.
Our patent capabilities run the gamut from application preparation and filing to examination and appeal processes to maximizing technology transfer opportunities. Through our experience working with a range of clients, we have developed a structured process for obtaining patent claims that provides strategic flexibility for our clients to best achieve their business goals.
StratIP can act either as the corresponding office or receive prosecution documents from clients or other firms (as the receiving office). Our IP professionals review such documents, and prepare and file responses, including claim and application amendments when required, in patent offices where such applications are pending. If not in the U.S. or India, StratIP can instruct other counsel for filing of such documents. We strive to stay abreast of changing rules in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, and can provide counseling regarding strategic, tactical and process changes to adapt to the current law and practice before various national and regional patent offices.
Whether your company is considering a new line of business, development of an innovative product, mining its portfolio, or licensing or selling patents, you need to understand your current legal and business positions, risks, and options. StratIP provides the information and guidance to help you make the right choices for your business.
We render support for opinions ranging from a single opinion on a specific patent to providing long-term, ongoing counseling on complex patent portfolios and IP landscapes. We address patent validity, enforceability, misuse, design-around, licensing potential and IP enforcement issues. We regularly partner with our clients’ legal, business, and technical staff to identify the potential for risk and reward, from idea to revenue-generating portfolios.
StratIP provides sophisticated formal patent drawings with specific expertise in electical, mechanical, healthcare and medical devices, semiconductors, software related technologies. The firm offers high quality patent drawings complying with patent rules for India, U.S. and other jurisdictions as required by the client.
