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Patent Services & Protection:
Patent Portfolio Assessment and Management
Patent Searches
Japanese Patent Translation
License Negotiation and Licensee Management
Patent and Trademark Infringement Investigations
Trade Secrets Protection:
Trade Secret Protection
R&D Security Assessment
Trademark Related Risks:
Integrated Brand Protection
Trademark In-Use Investigations
Parallel Import Investigations
Market Surveys
These days with production based overseas and markets on every continent, Intellectual Property is often the key remaining asset; If only your company knows the market, its needs and/or how to make a high performance product cost effectively then who is ensuring that edge is protected ? Clearly the legal team’s role is important, but they need information on competitor activities, evidence of infringement by imitators or good research to defend or defeat that patent !
At RiskMentor.org we have a network of experienced IP experts ready to respond to the need, irrespective of country or language. For example, on a patent infringement matters a thorough understanding of the technology can help an investigator crack the case, we provide such investigative resources using only tried and tested investigators with many years of experience.
Your IP portfolio is a key source of revenue so you monitor activities of licensees, right ? Are they paying the right royalties to you ? Have the terminated licensees ceased production and sale ?
Your branding distinguishes your products from the other commodities in the market. So do you survey the market regularly for imitators ? How bad is that problem in China ?
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Intellectual Property Case Study 1 : Semiconductor
Patents
A semiconductor maker feared its portfolio of patents would be challenged by a disgruntled
former inventor now working for a competitor, claiming that the security on site
was so poor that anyone could access and so the claimed inventions were “common
knowledge” at the time of the invention. A security review showed that this
was not the cases, at least at the time of the review, and that Trade Secret protection
procedures were robust.
Intellectual Property Case Study 2 : Mobile Telephone
Components
A maker experienced claims from assemblers that client parts bought in good faith
from resellers were substandard. The client analyzed returned components and found
that while they were genuine client components but of a different specification
than “as sold”. The investigation revealed that the components were
sold by an authorized reseller who, when they experienced shortages, repacked sub-par
tiny component in delivery reels of the asked-for component, i.e. passed-off sub-standard
as “spec”. Law enforcement raided the establishment and found the offending
articles.
Intellectual Property Case Study 3: Patent Analysis
In a dispute between two industry majors in Europe and Asia infringement was cited
by the plaintiff and the defendant needed to counter with invalidity. Operational
Risk Management Consulting found a relevant Japanese patent portfolio for that field
where most of the patents had not been filed in EU or US, hence they had never been
translated. Citable patent applications published in Japanese before the plaintiffs
filing date were identified and translated to prove invalidity.
Intellectual Property Case Study 4: Trademark In-Use
Investigation
A client wanted to roll-out a new brand worldwide but found that the name had been
registered in Japan for similar merchandise. RiskMentor.org
contacted the registered owner and got a statement to the effect that the mark had
never been used in the relevant field. The client got a trademark cancellation for
that field and moved to brand rollout.
Intellectual Property Case Studies:
> Semiconductor Patents. Click Here.
> Mobile Telephone Components. Click Here.
> Patent Analysis. Click Here.
> Trademark In-Use Investigation. Click Here
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