Boutique-Quality Intellectual Property Firm
Our clients enjoy our informal, highly-communicative office culture which makes the patent process transparent and low-stress. We handle each patent job in a team environment, giving clients the benefit of our joint creativity and diverse technical understanding and experience.
We provide the highest quality work for every job we do. Whether we are drafting an application for a utility or design patent, responding to an office action, dealing with trademarks or licenses, or doing international work, we provide a consistently high-quality of work.
What We Put Into Each Patent Application
Understand the Embodiments of the Invention
- Review the prior art and compare to the invention
- Identify areas of potentially patentable subject matter
- Understand the client's business goals
- Determine important dates such as:
- Possible statutory bars to U.S. patents
- Possible statutory bars to international patents
- Identify broad claim areas potentially available
- Assist client in identifying relative business value of each area
- Determine the effects on the client of:
- Current and proposed U.S. patent office policies
- Current and proposed international policies
- Current state of court rulings in patent cases
- Probable cost of comparative tactics for the client
- Propose a strategy, cost, and time schedule and obtain client agreement
Prepare Draft Patent Application
- Identify, outline, and prepare initial claim set
- Identify, outline, and prepare initial drawing set
- Identify, outline, and prepare initial specification
Review
- Investigate
- Client technical preferences
- Technical alternatives
- Competition alternatives
- Enablement issues
- Best embodiment issues
- Prepare Final Patent Application
- Finalize Claim Set
- Finalize Drawings
- Finalize Specification - (upon approval of a registered patent attorney)
- Check consistent nomenclature
- Check consistent drawing reference numbers
- Proofread
- Review Final Patent Application with Client(s)
- Ensure Client Understanding of Claim Language and Get Feedback
- Final Determination of Inventorship Issues
- Obtain Proper Signatures
- Properly File Application