WHAT WE DO?

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Technology/IP landscape

Landscape is useful when an organization/company is planning to enter into an existing niche technology vertical or a new technology vertical. This can be any new product development or improvements to the existing product or a research project

It provides over view of the various technological segments within the dataset and is very useful for the decision makers. These maps further break into more specific detailed technological segments to visualize the technology co-relation, technology diversification and various technology trends

Technology trends

Technology trends provide information on evolution of the specific technology from one time period to other. It generally highlights patent filings information by different players in the specific technology within specific time period, for instance in 20 years

Competitive intelligence

It is a process of gathering, analyzing, and applying information about patents, products, domain constituents, customers, and competitors in the market to help the strategists, management team and scientists to take appropriate measures for short term and long term planning and to form strategies for escalation of the organization

IP awareness training

Issues related to intellectual property are getting hotter day by day. Every week at least 3-4 new cases related to intellectual property are being filed. Slowly and steadily, IP awareness is become mandatory in every single organization. We combine local and international IP professionals with extensive technology experience to address the training programme 

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Patentability searches

These searches attempt to determine whether a specific invention is novel and within the scope of patentable subject matter. The purpose of this type of search is to determine whether there are any previous patents/literature (prior art) that might prevent the searcher from patenting his or her idea

Freedom to operate searches

"Freedom to operate", abbreviated "FTO", 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 IP rights are specific to different jurisdictions, a "freedom to operate" analysis should relate to particular countries or regions where one wants to operate

Invalidity searches

Validity searches are generally undertaken by companies or individuals trying to determine if is possible to invalidate another's patent

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IP and technology due diligence in M&A

A review of the intellectual property assets (Due Diligence) of the target company is essential before engaging into investments. It is especially significant where the target is involved in the technology sector, since in this industry most products and services will involve intellectual property assets. A thorough and comprehensive IP due diligence requires much more than compiling a listing of the company’s IP assets. Rather, an IP due diligence requires assessing the strength of the company’s IP rights in the marketplace, the strength of the competitors rights in the marketplace, and the effect of the IP on the base company’s products and other IP rights

Licensing In opportunities

Identification of all types of partners for IP transactions will help clients to identify and maximize their business opportunity. Thorough and crisp analysis of potential companies and patents helps in quick and comprehensive and fruitful licensing opportunities

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Portfolio management

Generating IP is only one aspect in IP management. Maintaining and executing the generated IP portfolio are equally important as IP generation.

Some of the Key elements under this management include

• Review of existing IP portfolio for cost savings, synergies, licensing, and monetization opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen key technology areas through patenting, licensing, acquisition and partnering
• Improve process efficiencies of IP portfolio review
• Improve cost allocation 

Enforcement

Infringement is predicated upon claim construction. Determining infringement necessitates mapping specific claim limitations, in light of supportable claim construction, to the features of the accused product. The doctrine of equivalents, where a claim is construed to provide equivalent embodiments, provides leeway to a patent holder, but the tighter the fit of construed claim to target product, the stronger the case of infringement 

Licensing out opportunities

Identification of all types of partners for IP transactions will help clients to identify and maximize their business opportunity. Thorough and crisp analysis of potential companies and patents helps in quick and comprehensive and fruitful licensing opportunities.