Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services Overview

Evalueserve is a knowledge services company providing customised Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services to leading technology companies, start-ups, SMEs and law firms across the world. Evalueserve, with its research centres in India and China, is able to provide a global coverage of its Intellectual Property and Legal Process service offerings and also carries out research and analysis in multiple languages.

Evalueserve’s Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services team comprises professionals from diverse backgrounds, such as Diagnostics, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Basic Materials, Nanotechnology, Measurement and Control, Semiconductors, High-tech Electronics, Telecom, Wireless and Wired Networking, Software, Business Methods and Mechanical Engineering.

Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services

Evalueserve provides Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services solutions across the technology cycle—right from the stage of conceptualisation to value extraction—in almost all domains of engineering and sciences.

Some of the key services are as follows:

Patentability Search: To evaluate the patentability or the novelty of a particular invention with respect to the patents, products and other research work that already exist in the respective field of the invention

Invalidation Search: To assess if a patent can be invalidated by patents, products and other research articles that already existed before the priority date claimed by the patent

Freedom to Operate Study: To evaluate the degree of freedom to use/operate for a particular invention/product with respect to the patents that already exist in the field of the invention/product

The search is carried out on domain-specific patent and non-patent databases. The client is provided with Evalueserve’s analysis of the relevant prior art in the particular field.

Portfolio Analysis is carried out to catalog the patents of a company either in a spreadsheet or database form. Patents are analysed in detail to identify the claimed, double claimed and not-yet claimed subject matters along with a thorough analysis of the legal status/prosecution history.

Patent Landscapes: Starting with understanding the relevant technology, all relevant patents are found using broad search strategies and categorised as per a technology tree. The analysis is presented in an interactive database with a user-friendly search interface.

State-of-the-art Studies: A survey of existing art in a particular technological domain is conducted to identify the status of current developments in the technology. Patented innovations and major players in the relevant field are identified and documented, along with Evalueserve’s analysis.

Technology Watch: This is an update of current developments in a technology domain or a company on a quarterly/half-yearly/annual basis. The update includes latest patents, changes in legal status of a patent family, recent research papers, and technical and corporate news.

Patent Drafting: It is the drafting of a complete patent application in collaboration with the client’s partner attorneys or external law firms as per EPO, USPTO, IPO guidelines to assist your team with handling prosecution, filing of patents, obtaining foreign filing permits, etc.

Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services Databases

Evalueserve Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services professionals undergo regular training on various searching techniques and databases. The Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services team is able to achieve the highest level of quality and efficiency by using its knowledge of domain-specific search strategies and databases.

Some of the databases accessed by Evalueserve Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services team are as follows:

Patent Database

Non-patent Database

Domain Specific Databases