Intellectual Property, Legal Process Services, and REACH 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, Legal Process Services, and REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances) offerings and also carries out research and analysis in multiple languages.
Evalueserve’s Intellectual Property, Legal Process Services , and REACH team comprises professionals from diverse backgrounds, including all major Engineering streams, Lifesciences, and Toxicology. The Intellectual Property, Legal Process Services , and REACH team comprises more than 250 professionals including PhD’s, MD’s, Master degree holders, lawyers and bachelors taken form the top universities and industry from India and abroad.
Intellectual Property Services
Evalueserve provides Intellectual Property and Legal Process Services 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.
Evalueserve also provides specialized searches such as sequence searches and structure searches. The sequence searches are conducted on sequence databases, like NCBI, Registry, DGENE and CAPLUS. The analysis is provided based on the mapping (exact, substructure or degree of homology) between the query sequence and the result sequence. Similary, structure searches are conducted through proprietary databases for structure searches like Registry, CAPLUS, MARPAT, Questeal Orbit, Beilsltein, CMEMINFORMRX, and PUB Chem Structure.
Patent 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 complete patent families, and legal status/prosecution history. Also, trend analysis to represent the research focus, patent filling pattern, key patents, key inventors, patent citation analysis, etc., is presented through easy to interpret graphs and charts.
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 relevant patents are presented in an interactive database with a user-friendly search interface. The patent landscape analysis including, patent trend analysis, technology evolution, white space analysis, patent citation analysis, key assignees, etc., is presented through easy to interpret graphs and charts.
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 regular basis. The update includes latest patents, changes in legal status of a patent family, recent research papers, product launches, and technical and corporate news. The analysis is presented as an executive summary web page or a newsletter.
Patent Drafting and Filling : 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.
REACH : This new chemical regulation in EU has entered into force on June 1, 2007 and it mandates major changes in the documentation of safe manufacture, use, import and disposal of chemicals for EU’s chemical industry. Evalueserve offers following REACH services to its clients:
REACH preparation – Identification of roles and responsibilities in REACH and identification of substances subject to registration.
Pre-registration – Pre-registration of candidate substances through IUCLID 5 to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), communication with competitors, suppliers, customers and authorities and participation in pre-SIEF and SIEF discussions.
Registration – Search and analysis of data, communication in SIEF and Consortia for data sharing, update of data in IUCLID 5, preparation of registration dossier in IUCLID 5 and submission of registration dossier.
Chemical Safety Assessment – Preparation of chemical safety report and compilation of extended safety data sheets including exposure scenarios.
The Intellectual Property department subscribes to most of the commonly used domain-specific patent and non-patent databases. Evalueserve Intellectual Property Services professionals undergo regular training on various searching techniques and databases, including attending training seminars by EPO. The Intellectual Property Services team is able to achieve the highest level of quality and efficiency by using its knowledge of domain-specific search strategies and databases.
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
- USPTO, JPO, DEPATIS, CIPO, Espacenet, INPADOC, SIPO, KIPO through following sources
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Delphion Micropatent (PatentWeb)
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PatentCafe
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PatBase
- State Intellectual Property Office of P.R. China
Non-patent Database
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National Medical Library
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Pubmed/Medline
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Science Direct
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IP.com
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Scirus
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Google Scholar
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California & Stanford Digital Library
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IIT Delhi Library
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China National Knowledge Interface
Domain Specific Databases
- IT and Electronics
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IEEE
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ACM
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National Science Library
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International Telecommunication Union
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SPIE
- Chemistry and Biotech
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REGISTRY
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CAPlus
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DGene
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MARPAT
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BEILSTEIN
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CMEMINFORMRX
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PUB Chem Structure
LITIGATION SUPPORT SERVICES : Evalueserve provides support to corporations and law firms in various aspects of litigation including:
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Document review and summarization : Review and summarization of voluminous materials (ie. deposition transcripts, transaction history, medical records, claims files, relevant insurance policies, etc.) allowing the client to focus attention and resources on relevant material. Evalueserve will also classify the reviewed material in various categories by relevancy, confidentiality and privilege.
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Document Discovery : Identification and extraction of relevant or potentially relevant documents from the Client’s internal knowledge repository pursuant to the discovery request of an adverse party. Evalueserve will also prepare a summary of the documents to be produced, including a chronology of pertinent events. In addition, Evalueserve will review and summarize materials produced by adverse parties in response to discovery requests as per the above.
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E-Discovery (electronic discovery) : Review, extraction, coding, summarization & organization of electronic files and emails of clients in response to discovery request. Evalueserve will also perform these functions in relation to the discovery response of an adverse party once given access to the necessary files.
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Drafting Support : Preparing preliminary drafts of legal documents including pleadings, motions, briefs, complaints, claims etc., in compliance with applicable rules of court.
CONTRACT-RELATED SERVICES : Evalueserve provides contract review and management services for various types of contracts including procurement, leasing, insurance, real estate, licensing and service agreements. Contract services include:
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Creating Rule Book : Preparing a rule book and comparison chart to identify acceptable parameters for various contract terms and highlight the inconsistencies in Client’s current contracts.
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Contract Review & Negotiation Support : Reviewing various contracts such as vendor agreements, NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements), TLAs (Technology Licensing Agreements), MSLAs (Master Service Level Agreements) and evaluate for consistency with acceptable parameters identified by client. Evalueserve can also act as an intermediary between the client and third party. This allows the client to focus on higher value activities while becoming involved in contract negotiation only when alerted to items that are flagged as being outside acceptable parameters.
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Contract Management : Creating database and checklist of all contracts in order to provide an in-house reference and management tool to streamline the contract management process across the company. (i.e. Lease abstraction)
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Preliminary Contract Drafting : Preparing first drafts and templates of contracts including supplier agreements, licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, shareholder agreements, service level agreements etc.
LEGAL RESEARCH SERVICES : Evalueserve will conduct primary and secondary legal research including:
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Memorandum of law on specific issues in various jurisdictions.
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Identification and analysis of case law supporting specific legal theory or position within specified jurisdiction.
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Legislative analysis and tracking for domestic and foreign jurisdictions.
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Legal updates/Newsletters.
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Support for due diligence in mergers and acquisitions.
PARALEGAL SUPPORT : Evalueserve will perform various paralegal-type functions allowing the client to focus on higher-level tasks and client relations. These functions would include:
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Assistance in e-filings and processing of applications (ie. Labor Condition Applications; Visitor Visa Letters; Employee Verification Letters, etc. for immigration work)
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Abstracting data and creating spreadsheets (ie. Lease abstractions)
TRADEMARK-RELATED SERVICES : Evalueserve’s Trademark search service includes carrying out search on paid and free databases as per client’s requirement. Evalueserve’s Legal Process Services team also assists in filing and prosecuting Trade Mark applications in India and in various other jurisdictions through our global network of attorneys. Evalueserve also provides Trademark-related administrative assistance including database population and maintenance using specialized software.
COPYRIGHT RESEARCH SERVICES : : Evalueserve also assists in carrying out searches on various databases to assess the availability and existence of copyrights in various jurisdictions.
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