We are offering a broad portfolio of Intellectual Property Rights and Engineering services, but there are certain areas of expertise where we have a particularly field-proven track record of “doing things well”:
Inventing and filing
We have invented ourselves, are named inventor in international patent applications and granted standard-declared patents. This includes full familiarity with claiming and disputing fair compensation and management of the employee invention process.
Filing and prosecution process
We have managed other inventor’s cases as well as followed up on our own invention filings, reviewing drafts and office actions and instructing counsel to maximize patent value. Due to first-hand knowledge about which claims prevail in invalidity actions and patent litigation, we can steer the prosecution towards the required quality levels.
Portfolio management
We have managed patent portfolios, doing continuation and national filing decisions, content review and value classification, offensive action candidate search as well as trim decisions. Further, we have reviewed patent portfolio acquisition offers and assessed quality, including summarizing the results into a buy or pass decision.
Licensing negotiations and assertion responses
We have participated in offensive and defensive meetings with other parties to present assets or to comment on offerings.
We are used to present claim charts ourselves or analyze and comment on charts presented by others. Our analysis served as key input to risk assessment and valuation.
Litigation and patent invalidation
We have participated numerous hearings at the European Patent Office (Munich, The Hague and Berlin), the German Patent and Trademark Office (Munich), the German Federal Patent Court (Munich), the German Federal Supreme Court (Karlsruhe) and german patent infringement courts (Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Dusseldorf and Munich), acting as case supervisors and technical specialist.
In the context of training and industry relation building, we have also worked together with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Chinese Patent Office (SIPO) and the Finnish Patent and Register Authority.
Personal contacts with international attorneys and patent counsel, personal familiarity with courts, patent offices and processes
As a result of our long-term involvement in Intellectual Property Rights, we have long-lasting business relationships with many international law firms and their specialist attorneys as well as with international patent counsel offices and their staff. We also have a broad contact network of international corporate IPR specialists and inhouse counsel.
In addition to knowing the people, our work routines have taught us also the places and procedures, giving us a solid basis to focus on the merits of the case and the details of the involved technology.
Communication technologies and standards
Due to our long work history as R&D engineer, architect and standardization delegate and continuation of that technical focus also in the IPR groups of Nokia and Microsoft, we have deep knowledge in technologies related to mobile devices including the underlying communication standards. This core knowledge has been further enriched by placing it into internet-based service frameworks, combining devices, services, run on top of internet protocols, and servers, the latter of which can also be abstracted into a cloud.