IP Paralegal Services
Confidently managing the complete IP lifecycle.
Complete, quality assured prosecution lifecycle management of your global intellectual property portfolio, carried out by our team of over 100 experienced paralegals, docketers, and administrative specialists enabled by our our proprietary AI / Automation technology.
Our team of experts leverages Clair Insights, our industry leading, ML-based analytics solution designed to reveal valuable insights for portfolio development and monetization.
By the numbers
Invalidation searches carried out
Novelty searches performed
Patents analyzed for Licensing
Patent Search, Analysis, and Monetization Benefits
Comprehensive prior art searches inform smarter patent development and help our clients build high-value patent portfolios.
Optimize your patent portfolio with actionable insights into the current and potential value of your Intellectual Property.
IP Paralegal services benefits
Customizable engagement structures for nimble support at any stage of the Patent Management process.
Our team of seasoned, credentialed experts manage large volumes of complex IP transactions across multiple jurisdictions with efficiency and accuracy.
Our approach to managing IP assets combines optimal resourcing, the right domain experience, and proven processes – enabled and augmented by our proprietary AI–ML technologies.
Patent Portfolio Development Benefits
We handle large volumes of pending global patent applications and Office Action Responses with accuracy and efficiency.
Our team of expert patent prosecution professionals are trained under highly experienced patent attorneys, experienced in proven processes, and proficient in our proprietary AI-ML technologies.
The strength of our work delivery translates into more strategically valuable patent portfolios for our clients.
Patent Portfolio Development Services
Patent Drafting
Drafting ready-to-file English language patent applications for filing in the USPTO, PCT, RO, EPO, and other jurisdictions.
Office Action Response Drafting
Drafting ready-to-file Office Action Responses for patent prosecution at USPTO, EPO, or any world-wide English Language Jurisdiction.
IP Paralegal Services
Paralegal and Docketing Services
For Patent & Trademarks Prosecution
Our team of IDS experts helps you fulfill duty of disclosure in a timely, accurate, and cost-effective manner, including:
Search all publicly available PTO websites to gather the material prior art across all patent families related to an application.
Cross-check all references identified during the audit with previously submitted references to identify new or uncited prior art.
Prepare ready-to-file IDS and relevant supporting forms.
Download and compile PDF copies of required references to facilitate easier submission.
Electronic filing of an IDS.
Update records or validate the details of any recently transferred Intellectual Property assets with client docketing systems or PTOs.
We verify the legitimacy of IP records by comparing data pertaining to US / non-US cases against public data sources or through local counsel.
Over 94% of issued patents contain errors that affect their enforceability. We offer high-quality proofreading and Certificate of Correction filing services across Patent Applications, Published Patent Applications, and Issued Patents. Our professional proofreaders use combined electronic and manual proofreading processes, delivered with technical quality support from experienced patent attorneys.
Our patent illustration team creates high-quality drawings that meet PTO requirements at an affordable cost. We set ourselves apart by combining knowledge of USPTO, EPO, PCT and other jurisdictions with a dedication to technical precision and fluency in advanced design software. Working from hand-drawn sketches, blueprints, photographs, or other descriptions - our team delivers Patent Illustrations ready to file with the PTO.
We offer the creation of Office Action Response Shells (OARS) to help patent prosecutors get a head start on preparing detailed Office Action Responses. These non-technical Shells consist of a base template with headers, footers, and boilerplate language specific to client needs, as well as form paragraphs introducing objections raised, the latest copy of the claims with status identifiers, and other relevant details.
Our highly skilled IP Admin team helps maintain a watch on key competitor portfolios to provide valuable market intelligence to our clients. We are able to provide asset-level insights into prosecution status at the PTO.
We offer preparation and review of patent application file wrappers. This wrapper - documenting all correspondence between the patent office and the applicant across the entire transaction - aids in decisions on licensing, litigation, infringement analysis, and buying and selling of patents.
We use a semi-automated process to calculate a patent’s expiration date in order to determine if the patent term adjustment published by the USPTO is correct. Our proven process leverages continuity, terminal disclaimer, maintenance fee, OAR extensions, along with other data points - to ensure a comprehensive and accurate analysis.
How Clairvolex Delivers
5 among the top 20 Patent / Trademarks filers are our customers.
90 paralegal and docketing experts trained in US, European, and world-wide prosecution.
90 paralegal and docketing experts trained in US, European, and world-wide prosecution.
30-50% efficiency gain through automation and expert oversight.
We serve 50 global brands and top law firms.
Case Study
Real-world experience translates to measurable results for our clients
Large Telecommunications Company
Challenge
Prosecution of a large portfolio of ~4000 patent applications managed by Clairvolex in the US, EP, India, China and other jurisdictions.
Results
Over 6 years, we delivered the following success metrics from our Portfolio Development program for the client:
$7.5M in estimated savings.
6400+ Office Action Responses Filed.
Marked increase in scope of granted claims.
Grant after average 1.74 Office Actions per case, for actions handled by Clairvolex.
Less than 25% cases had substantive amendments (in consultation with Outside Counsel).
Case studY
Real-world experience translates to measurable results for our clients
World-Wide Trademarks Docketing with Tech-enabled IP Paralegal Services
Challenge
Help our client manage high complexity and large volumes across their trademarks docketing:
18000+ monthly transactions.
160+ jurisdictions coverage.
158 pages of standard operating procedure (SOPs) integration with workflow, with 60+ client specific instructions.
86 types of trademarks related documents.
Approach
Expert, technology-enabled trademark docketing:
4 week kickstart from process training, SOP integration, deployment, and go-live.
Tight tollgates on quality - metrics and trackers.
Real-time performance monitoring, daily dashboards, and governance on Docketers.
Process orientation and re-training based on internal quality analytics.
Monthly SOP knowledge assessment and refreshers.
Results
100% internal quality coverage of marked critical transaction types.
Internal error rates reduces to record low of zero with tight quality control.
Trademark docketing cost management significantly reduced by 25-30%.
Patent Search, Analysis, and Monetization Services
Patent Search and Analysis
Clairvolex search and analytics team offers comprehensive prior-art search and analysis in a number of technologies. Our analysts use all major IP databases, open-source libraries, IP5 patent databases and non-English literature sources. Every Search report is reviewed is reviewed by a senior subject matter specialist with advanced technical qualifications relevant to the invention, resulting in a final work product that meets global quality standards.
We offer Invalidation Searches to help determine if a product could potentially infringe a patent. Our team of IP Analysts have time-tested expertise in delivering services that include:
Deep comprehension of the patented invention and the coverage of each claim - especially independent claims.
Thorough analysis of the patent's prosecution history, file wrappers of the patent family.
Proven and well defined search strategies enabled by our innovative proprietary tools.
Identification and compiling of relevant patent and / or non-patent literature into a compelling Invalidation Search Report.
Aided by Clair Insights, our innovative IP analytics software, we deliver insightful patent maps and landscape analysis to help our clients identify white-spaces within the overall R&D roadmap.
Our competitive landscape reporting looks at IP and Technology to offer a full picture of the key players in a given industry, their IP strategies, and the defensive, offensive and collaborative uses of their IP.
We corroborate our own research and data analytics with data from secondary research sources that provide a comprehensive view on the competitive landscape.
We develop comprehensive Freedom to Operate (FTO) Studies and Clearance Search and Analysis to inform our client's Go to Market strategy and to ensure there are no blocking patents in any country or market where they are planning to launch.
For each client, we develop a search strategy to identify blocking patents on a variety of parameters including pending patent applications, typical 20 year patent term, competitive and market information, names of inventors, and more.
After identifying blocking patents, we will perform a substantive technical claim analysis and prepare an FTO report.
Patent Licensing and Monetization Services
We deliver exhaustive, customized sets of patent taxonomies - featuring multidimensional, multi-level patent categorization - whether our clients have an existing taxonomy or need one created from scratch.
Our approach involves generating a taxonomy based on a target technology domain and the relevant patent set - classifying each patent as prominent or obsolete. Armed with this detailed categorization of each patent and application in their portfolio, our clients are better equipped to identify assets with the greatest potential.
We develop Evidence of Use (EoU) charts to help attorneys and in-house counsel determine the extent to which any claim ‘reads onto’ a product, process, and/or standard. These charts guide sound decision making for our clients who are seeking to monetize IP, acquire IP, and/or sell IP portfolios.
Our IP monetization team are comprised of experts from a variety of disciplines, with advanced technical degrees, deep IP monetization experience and training, and have broad experience in working with technologies across both hi-tech and bio-tech sectors.
We combine IP business intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities to deliver compelling market insights to our clients. Using innovative search strategies, searching across a variety of 3rd party databases and subscription-based collections, and applying proprietary search technologies, our researchers report out valuable data such as product- and company-specific revenues, a competitor’s technology roadmap, and roadmaps of product version evolution.
We review each asset within a portfolio against specific requirements (e.g. licensing potential, sale potential, etc.) and assign High/Medium/Low ranking according to parameters customized to our client’s specific business and industry sector. We also sort assets into categories and assign a numeric and/or qualitative ranking score.
Often, we work with a client to provide a deeper dive into specific insights surfaced during ranking - like an asset’s relevance to a specific product or product line owned by the client or a competitor, or develop a trend map of assets against a client’s technology advancements or patent filings.
We offer end-to-end patent licensing and monetization support.
Bijal V. Vakil
Partner, Allen & Overy
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