Quality Patents
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How we draft quality patents.
WHAT WE DO IN EACH PATENT APPLICATION
Understand the embodiments of the invention(s)
- Review the prior art and compare to the invention
- Identify areas of potentially patentable subject matter
Determine strategy and tactics
- 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 strategies
- Enablement issues
- Best embodiment issues
Prepare final patent application
- Finalize claim set
- Finalize drawings
- Finalize specification - (with approval by at least one very experienced registered patent attorney)
- Check consistent nomenclature
- Check consistent drawing reference numbers
- Proof read
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