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:
