Litigation
Are you looking for a research partner to assist you with the litigation process, complexities involved in understanding the claim language, technical terms and concepts?
Overview
As a trusted and experienced partner in patent reviews, we help you to
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Identify
prior art which raises a “substantial question of patentability”
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Evaluate
patents claims with patent experts
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Build
the petitions as per the most relevant claim construction
need
To keep with the pace of today’s business world, you require support services to achieve desired outcomes in a short time.
Researchwire offers patent litigation support to help you with a bundle of research and analytical services. Our team of IP experts support your patent litigation with pre-litigation analysis, intellectual property discovery assistance, prior art analysis etc.
Patent Validity
/ Invalidity Search
Our validity/ invalidity search team provides you with a comprehensive analysis of patent prior art that may be used to prove the validity or lack thereof of a patent already obtained.
You only need to provide the patent number and the claims of interest and we will conduct an extensive search of US and foreign patents, publications, and technical literature.
We also conduct a foreign language search on your request to cover Japanese, Chinese and Korean prior art. We find prior-art that is within the reference patents broadest claim scope.
Our validity searches includes the following:
- A search of US and foreign patent documents
- A search of patent related literature, non-patent literature and various publications,journals and databases
- Classification and keyword-based search
- Hybrid search
- Citation analysis of the relevant prior art identified
We offer exhaustive search for key-features of concerned claims. Generally, there are different patent laws for different countries and uncovered prior-arts should conform to the laws of the concerned country. Therefore, we have an inhouse team of experts to train and guide our technical researchers about relevant laws.
Claim Construction
Analysis
Claim construction is at the core of patent litigation suits. It involves deciphering the boundaries of the claims and interpreting them in their simplest form. Both plaintiffs and defendants interpret claim elements to support their case.
Patent litigants spend a bucket of money on claim construction. The reason is that claim construction usually determines two root issues of every patent case: whether the plaintiff has a valid claim, and whether the defendant infringed the patent.
To properly decipher a patent claim, one must understand the technology behind it. With Strong technical background and ample knowledge of law, Researchwire team cuts through the legal jargon and offers technically precise interpretation of the claims. Our team has experience of working with top US attorneys in matters related to claim constructions
Review Support
Use of the Inter Partes / Exparte Review (IPR) is an attempt to invalidate the asserted patent,which can lead to a stay of the patent litigation, and may offer strategic and cost advantages.Numerous factors impact the likelihood of success in are-examination or a litigation, most important being the strength of the prior art.
In recent years, re-examination is increasingly used as an avenue to invalidate a patent in light of prior art not known or appreciated at the time of examination. Researchwire can provide the best art for petitioning for re-examination, as well as charting the prior art to claims, to clearly elucidate
how the prior art renders a patent invalid.
As a dedicated intellectual property research firm, Researchwire’s efforts in this area have been instrumental to our client’s success in achieving faster resolution of patent infringement disputes and reducing patent litigation legal fees.
