With the increasing global competition, everyone in today’s world wants to reap maximum benefits with less amount of efforts. For increasing the value of your patent portfolio, directed prosecution plays a very important role in generating high value for your IP portfolio. Directed Prosecution is a smart approach adopted by companies to build high value patent portfolio, immune to patent litigation cases.
Directed Prosecution is the process of identifying the key elements not included in the claims of a patent in prosecution, which holds importance in infringement scenarios or filing the continuation application of the patent. This is useful within the timeframe of 3 months after receiving the Notice of Allowance (NOA), helping you strengthen your patent portfolio.
Directed Prosecution helps in addressing the potential scope of the patent claims. It prepares you to negotiate for licensing a similar subject matter with a third party.
The Main Objectives of Directed Prosecution:
As a result, at patent level, filing a continuation patent application and directed prosecution can highly boost your patent portfolio and help you get additional patent protection. Thus, increasing the value of your patent portfolio.
Directed Prosecution has multi-dimensional benefits for patent protection that cover a technology or market extensively. It makes your patent less vulnerable towards invalidation in a patent litigation. Here are some benefits of Directed Prosecution:
Patentability searches are conducted by our experienced search professionals on online patent search tools viz. Orbit, Derwent innovation, NCBI, etc. using specific keywords, classifications, citations of the prior art, and all.
Here is the way by which Wissen Research can help you with Directed Patent Prosecution:
Directed patent prosecution takes a more strategic and proactive approach to securing patent rights. On the other hand, the standard patent prosecution generally follows a reactive process, i.e., responding to office actions as they come.
There is no fixed time period for completing a directed patent prosecution process. The time take can vary based on a number of factors such as invention complexity, the particular USPTO examiner involved, and nature of any objection / rejection during the examination. Get in touch with our subject matter expert for precise project estimation.
We need the client to give us a comprehensive invention disclosure detailing the technical features, functionality, and possible uses of the invention. Further, we request our client to inform us of their business goals and commercial aspirations so we can coordinate the prosecution process with their overall intellectual property and market strategy.
You can directly email us at info@wissenresearch.com or fill out our contact form to avail our directed patent prosecution services.
