Intellectual Property 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.
Our proofreader 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.
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.