IP Services
Overlegen specializes in providing Intellectual Property services to corporate legal departments and law firms with high quality at cost-effective prices.
Our team comprises of people form versatile backgrounds including all major engineering streams and life sciences. The team includes engineers and lawyers taken from top universities in India.
Our services are:
Prior-art search -
Evaluate the novelty of an invention with respect to the patents and other research work that already exist in the respective field of that invention. A targeted search and thorough analysis of the search results is quintessential to such determination.
Overlegen IP team enables delivery of high quality work with cost arbitrage. Report once prepared goes through three levels of quality check and abides all CTQs before final delivery.
Validation Search -
To get any patent in a particular country or in any patent office, a validation search report is required that assesses the validity of that patent. Such search reports provide an in-depth knowledge of the existing patents, products and other research articles that may hamper the validity of a patent. Our well-trained lawyers and IP professionals that have prosecuted large number of patent applications globally work on such searches.
Infringement search/ freedom to operate -
Our team of experienced patent lawyers works closely with the technical teams in preparing a scaffold of the strategy to conduct the FTO analysis. Based upon the strategy the FTO analysis begins with an advanced search of patent literature on issued and pending applications.
Patent Mapping and Landscaping -
Patent mapping provides visualization of patent data. This helps in identifying the competition in a given area of the patent. It makes a better understanding of the complex families for a given patent and provides patent portfolio analysis.
Patent landscaping includes overlap analysis and the creation of claim charts, valuation modelling and competitive intelligence.
Our team of trained searchers further search the global patent landscapes by performing advanced searches using code indexes for particular keywords that resulted in a list of valued players in specific technology areas.
Patent Proofreading -
Our proof-reader browses the entire prosecution history of the patent and makes sure that the Issued Patent contains everything submitted and the examiner had approved or accepted the same. Patents are proofread manually as well as electronically. We proofread face page, drawings, specification and claims.
Patent Illustrations -
Drawings give a better understanding than a written document. They form the foundation of any patent application and any patent contains one or more drawing. Our expert team works closely with the client to understand the requirement of the illustration and transforms an idea into a drawing with the help of different software like Adobe Illustrator, Corel, Microsoft Visio, AutoCAD & 3D Studio Max.
We can create illustrations for design patent; utility patent, medical and electronic patents that too in accordance to USPTO, EPO and PCT guidelines.
Docketing -
Our in-house patent docketing team has worked on different client specific platforms and helped clients to organize their numerous types of intellectual property in the form of patents, trademarks, licenses and royalties. It provides a track of procedures and deadlines that are related to the patent process. So it covers the complete process from the time of initial application up until the day the patent expires.
Preparation of Provisional Patent Applications (PPA) -
Our team has well-trained patent lawyers and engineers who work on robust platforms to deliver high quality provisional patent applications. The drafts prepared by the team are reviewed by the team of subject matter experts to ensure that the claims are directed at the invention and that the description passes the test of best mode.
Litigation Support
Overlegen specializes in providing high quality intellectual property services at cost-effective prices. We undertake qualitative measures to safeguard and protect your legal rights on the artistic and commercial works of creation that are the true outcome of creative and intuitive human intellect. We have a very strong internal information security system ensuring high standards of confidentiality and information security. We ensure that the best services are provided to the client that enables them to leverage maximum out of their intellectual assets. Under this specialized service, we cover:
Document Review:
E-discovery process is collection, organization, review and production of massive quantities of documents. The most significant phase of E-discovery
Document review process involves review for responsiveness, potential privileged, confidentiality, categorization of responsive documents in various fields and tagging some documents as hot documents.
Most corporate legal departments face difficulties in the process of document review due to lack of time, infrastructure, resources and technology. Overlegen as a LPO vendor helps corporate legal departments as well as law firms in reducing the costs involved in document review.
Overlegen Advantage :
- High quality and cost effective review
- Secure work environment
- Quick turn-around time
- Well versed with multiple e-discovery tools
- Client dedicated resources
- Efficient project management
Deposition Summary preparation :
Deposition summaries are the most valuable tools an attorney has in litigation. These are written by fully trained, qualified attorneys and customized to meet specific legal support needs.
Our experienced team of attorneys has worked on multiple projects of deposition summaries. We work on three different models of summaries i.e. traditional page summary, memorandum summary, and summary of only the testimony for an issue.
Document Coding :
It is a process of extracting information from each document and identifying it by putting it in a common form so that the documents are rendered searchable at any later date. We do support a wide range of formats for data delivery and also provide customized files to transfer documents into the client’s document management software.
Overlegen provides objective, subjective coding along with Unitization of documents.
Contract Management
With ever increasing business, corporate legal departments need assistance in controlling the burden of routine contracts and agreements. Our contract management team specializes in reviewing, summarizing and organizing contracts by using database software for management purposes.
At Overlegen, we believe in partnering with our customers and delivering excellence in legal support solutions. We confidently execute our client’s projects to realize their organization’s vision.
Our services in contract management include:
- Creation & Management of Contract Databases
- Contract Analysis
- Contract Drafting
- Contract Abstraction
- Ongoing Contract Maintenance
- Contract Red-Lining
Real Estate Services
Lease abstraction
A lease abstract is a detailed summary of key business information in a commercial real estate lease. The purpose of the lease abstraction is to allow a lease administrator, leasing agent, property or maintenance manager to renew frequently referenced lease information without having to take time perusing a lease to find the needed information.
The major work of it comes from Mortgage Houses, Banking Companies, Companies having rented/leased offices.
The contents of an abstract may vary depending on the type of lease, but the most important information to be included is the financial lease information. Apart from the financial information, other terms that may be included in the abstract are:
(1) Name of the Tenant
(2) Name of the landlord
(3) Term of the lease
(4) Amount of square footage leased
(5) Space number
(6) The base rent
(7) Percentage rent
(8) List of documents modifying terms of lease.
For abstracting the lease the client provides a base template/term sheet which is required to be filled up in a manner so that anyone can understand the terms of the lease and the implications resulting thereby. The work can be performed on the leases already entered into between the parties or the leases which are yet to be entered into between the parties.
Conveyancing
Conveyancing is the legal process in which property is transferred from one person to another. The process consists of three main stages, these being before contract, before completion and after completion. Such a transaction involves exchanging of title passes and completion of title passes.
Overlegen staff of lawyers is well trained in Sale, Purchase and Remortgage processes for both freehold and leasehold properties.
Sales process -
- Setting up new instructions
- Obtain office copy entries and update details
- Obtain redemption statement and title deeds from existing vendors
- Send further replies to further enquires by buyer’s solicitor
- Check and compete indents
Purchase process -
• Setting up new instructions
• Request and check searches
• Title check and raise additional enquires
• Check mortgage offers
• Check and complete indents
Remortgage process-
• Setting up new instructions
• Obtain office copy entries and update details Send letters and questionnaire to clients
• Obtain redemption statement and title deeds from existing lender
• Check mortgage offers
• Carry out pre-competition searches
• Check and complete indents
Home information pack process (HIPS)-
• Check/Process orders for a HIP
• Chase return of documents from
• Search providers
• Home condition Inspector
• Managing agents/Landlords for leasehold
• Vendor/estate agents
• Check/process returned documents
• Create a "legal condition report"
Legal Research
Overlegen offers legal research services through its highly qualified and experienced attorneys with cost effective solutions. Our each step of legal research begins with an analysis of the facts and concludes with the application and communication of the results.
Our Legal research service encompasses:
• Case law research
• Infringement search
• Blue sky research
• Multi jurisdiction research
• Regulatory and compliance research
We have hands-on experience on tools like Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.