Patent landscaping is a type of research that creates an overview of pending or already issued patents on a particular topic. For example, if you are developing a new drug for fighting colon cancer, a patent landscape will show you which colon cancer-specific drugs have already been patented or are awaiting patent approval.

We partner with you and/or your team to create a unique Patent Landscape Report (PLR), providing a snapshot of the current patent landscape of a specific technology, either national, region-specific, or global. These are leveraged to analyze the validity of other patents based on data provided on their legal status.

Our team are experts in locating, negotiating for, and obtaining licenses, as well as executing the license sale themselves.

Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO,) which establishes an early filing date, but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional patent application within one year.

Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that establishes an early filing date, but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional patent application within one year.

While innovation is an ongoing part of our culture, Invention on Demand (IoD) Sessions are intentional and dedicated times for the creation or further development of ideas. We work with individuals and companies that need targeted R&D assistance in developing innovative products for markets outside their usual area of expertise. These sessions compliment R&D budgets and companies often find that this enhances or (in some cases) even replaces internal R&D processes and associated IP efforts.

A patent that covers the creation of a new or improved – and useful – product, process or machine. A utility patent, also known as a “patent for invention,” prohibits other individuals or companies from making, using or selling the invention without authorization.

A Divisional Application is filed when the parent application contains more than one distinct invention. If multiple inventions are disclosed in a single application, the applicant may pursue claims to one of the multiple inventions listed in the parent application, and pursue other inventions in subsequent divisional applications. Divisional applications, generally, have the same specifications as the parent application and claim the priority date of the parent, but have a different set of claims. In the U.S., divisional applications often result when the Patent Examiner issues a “restriction requirement”, which limits each patent application to a single invention. Divisional applications in Europe and Australia are equivalent to a continuation application in the U.S.

During the Patentability Phase, our team executes a comprehensive search and evaluation of research through the USPTO site, White Papers, research documents and any other relevant literature to provide professional opinion on idea patentability. This often saves the inventor many years of time and thousands of dollars of capital.

A continuation is a patent application filed by an applicant who wants to pursue additional claims to an invention disclosed in the parent application. The continuation uses the same specification as the parent application, claims the priority date of the parent, and names at least one of the same inventors as the parent. This type of application is often filed when a patent examiner has allowed some, but rejected other, claims in an application or when an applicant feels that they have not exhausted all useful ways of claiming embodiments of the invention during the prosecution of the parent.