Intellectual Property Serrvices Outsourcing- India Company Overview

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EPatents IP Services
Services Overview
June 2013
Web: www.epatents.in
Email: contact@epatents.in
Tel: +91 788 2295745
Mob: +91 7389 305072
Bhilai | New Delhi| Mumbai|Bangalore

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CONTENTS
EPatents Company Profile
Services Offered
Engagement Models
Case Studies

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Clients
Experience
• Combined 15+ years of Research, providing Patent & legal services experience
• Patent services for US, EP and Indian Jurisdictions
• Team having experience of working in IP Departments of MNC, R&D, KPO and lawfirms
• Individual inventors, SMEs, law firms from India, US and EP
Team • Engineers, MBAs, Lawyers from reputed institutes
Technology
Areas
• Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics & Telecom, IT / Software / Computer
Certification
• Registered Patent Agent (India) and Registered Patent Attorney (US)
• Engineers have completed WIPO IP course certification

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PANKAJ THAPE
Founder and CEO
 Pankaj is the founder of EPatents and holds a M.Tech(Mechanical) from IIT Kanpur. He has a mix of R&D
and Patent Consultancy experience with Indian and foreign MNCs like L&T, Patel Alumit ,Siemens which
gave him exposure to US, EU and Indian Patent System and enough confidence to start working on his
own. He has been trained in claim drafting by US and EP Patent attorneys and has drafted more than 150
Patent applications for US, EP and Indian Patent jurisdictions covering fields including Mechanical,
Electrical, IT, Software. He is also a Registered IndianPatent Agent.
 He also frequently visits clients to provide training on IP and Patent Awareness. He likes to work with the
inventors on a personal level for helping them finding Patentable things in their work till their Patent is filled
Team
ADHIRAJ SURANA
Legal Counsel
 Adhiraj is the legal guy at Epatents and sought for legal advice needed like in the Patent & Trademark
litigation matters. He holds a LLM in International Business Law from University of Manchester where his
dissertion was on Information Technology (Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism) and Trademark Laws
(Descriptive and similar words) . He did his LLB from Symbiosis International University with focus on
Company Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Information Technology, Jurisprudence, Professional
Ethics, Evidence Law, Indian Legal Procedures. He also practices in High Court and is founder of DSS
Legal.

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CONTENTS
Services Offered
Engagement Models
Case Studies

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Research Protect Analyze
 Prior-art Search
 Novelty /
Patentability Search
 Technology
Landscape
 Freedom-to-Operate
Search / Product
Clearance Search
 Trademark Search
 Patent Drafting
 Patent Filing
 Foreign Filing Permit
 Trademark Filing
 Patent Drawings
 Design Registration
 Copyright
Registration
 Landscape Analysis
 Portfolio Analysis
 Infringement
Analysis
 Patent Proof
Reading
Services 1/2
Cost-effective, quick-turnaround, flexible support with a focus on high-quality service delivery

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Expertise Areas
Databases used
Team
 Engineers, Masters from IIT
 Management Graduates from ICFAI
 Registered Indian Patent Agent & US Patent Attorney
 Lawyer from reputed law school
 Patent: Delphion, USPTO and Google patents ( covering most of the countries)
 Non-patent: Google Scholar, IEEE, IP.com, Findarticles and Google
 Other paid databases subscribed on need basis
 Mechanical
 Electrical
 Electronics & Telecom
 IT / Software / Computer
 Biotech / Pharma
Services 2/2
Jurisdictions
 USPTO
 EPO
 Indian Patent Office

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CONTENTS
Services Offered
Engagement Models
Case Studies

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Project Based
Inhouse Dedicated Support
Service Model
 Customized Projects
 Support when required by client
 Type of work
• Searches – Patentability/ FTO/ Trademark search
• IP Analysis- Landscape analysis/ Portfolio Analysis
• Drafting – Provision/ Non Provisional Patent Drafting
• Filing – Patent/ PCT/ Trademark
• Support – Drawing/ Proofreading
 Ongoing research and analysis requirement
 Working at Client’s office
 Dedicated team formed after consultation with the client
 Risk-free pilots to experiment with new types of work
 Type of work: All EPatents services

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CONTENTS
Services Offered
Engagement Models
Case Studies

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Objective
The client is a US based inventor active in GPS technologies. The client was interested in conducting a patentability
search for one of his invention.
Sample of Search Report
Patent Search ResultMethodology
 A thorough understanding of the invention was developed
 The study covered both patent and non-patent literature
 Patent Literature Search
 US Jurisdiction
 Various searching techniques – keywords, IPC classes,
assignee name, inventor name
 Non-patent Literature Search
 Search on Google
 Various searching techniques – keywords, author name,
concept based search.
EPatents Deliverable
 A detailed report was provided with relevant prior art, highlighting
the similarities and differences from the invention
 Methodology for the search
Publication
Number
USXXXXXX
Title
Method for GPS carpool rendezvous
tracking and personal safety
verification
Inventor Raney; Stephen
Filing Date Jan 8, 2005
Abstract
Rendezvous tracking subsystem
uses GPS-enabled cell phones
communicating with an
application server for tracking
the whereabouts of carpool
participants and for providing on-
time status of participants en-route
to designated rendezvous points.
Safety subsystem can be used to
verify safe arrival of participants at
carpool destinations. Participants
can configure safety subsystem by
defining escalation rules and
procedures to follow when safety
critical events occur.
Case Study –1: Patentability Search

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Objective
A leading company specializing in wind turbine was interested in understanding the wind turbine technology
landscape
Case Study – 2: Landscape Analysis 1/2
Methodology
 The study covered only patents
 Complementary search techniques were used to ensure
comprehensiveness
 A taxonomy was developed based upon the relevant
literature
 The results from the search were screened to obtain
relevant patents
 The screened results were analyzed thoroughly and
categorized under various categories and sub categories
 Graphs were plotted to represent the various trends
 A detailed analysis was conducted to identify various
trends and insights
Taxonomy For Patent Categorization
Wind Turbine
Axis ComponentSetup Others
Horizontal
Vertical
stand-alone
power grid
solar cell
Rotor
Generator
Structural
Others
Wind Turbine
Axis ComponentSetup Others
Horizontal
Vertical
stand-alone
power grid
solar cell
Rotor
Generator
Structural
Others

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Case Study – 2: Landscape Analysis 2/2
 The report provided by EPatents helped the client in
understanding the overall patent landscape including
 Overall and category-wise filing trends
 White spaces with high potential for patenting
 Countries perceived as a good market for the
technology
 Key inventors
Annual Filing Trends
Jurisdictions
16%
8%
7%
3%
2%
1%
3%
60%
WO
EP
JP
CN
DE
KR
Others
US
Inventor Based Publications
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10
9
7
6
0 5 10 15
Inventor 1
Inventor 2
Inventor 3
Inventor 4
Inventor 4
Inventor 5
2 2
4
10
5
13
35
8
5
3
3
1
6
7
7
8
4
1
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Granted Patents Published Applications
** The graphs shown are for representation purposes and do not depict the real graphs

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Objective
The client is a law firm and needed to do a FTO search for one of their clients. The product was related to ‘wind turbines
with double fed induction motor’ Sample of Search Report
Patent Search ResultMethodology
 A thorough understanding of the scope of the study – product
features, jurisdictions, depth and competitors – were developed
 Various searching techniques were used to ensure
comprehensiveness. coverage of all potentially relevant patents.
 Keyword based search – from narrow to broad set of search
strings
 IPC classes based search
 Assignee name based search for the names provided by the
client
 The searches were conducted only for US and Indian jurisdictions
as specified by the client
 A detailed report was provided with relevant prior art, highlighting
the similarities and differences
 A mapping between the features of the product and claims of the
relevant patents was presented
 Methodology for the search
Case Study – 3: FTO/ Product Clearance Search
Patent
Number Feature 1 Feature 2 Feature 3
US4994684 √ √
IN
5106/KOLNP
/2008
√
IN
3382/KOLNP
/2008
√
√
US7355294 √
PCT/AT2007
/000498 √

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 Indian Patent application titled ‘An Orthodontic Bite Jumping Device’
 Indian Patent application titled ‘A Bed Sore Prevention Device’
 Indian Patent Office application titled ‘An Apparatus and Method For generation of Hydroelectric power using
collapsible bladder’
 Indian Patent Office application titled ‘An Improved Wound Closure Device’
 Indian Patent Office application titled ‘A hair care composition and a method of manufacturing the same’
 Indian Patent Office application titled ‘A Method Of Playing A Game On An Internet Enabled Computing Device
Synchronous With A TV Advertisement’
 Indian Patent application titled ‘A Switching Device And A Method For Virtual Local Area Network’
US Patent application titled ‘A Device For Preventing Aspirated Substance From Going Inside The Lungs And
Enabling Speaking’
 US Patent application titled ‘A Method For Correlating Messages Across Multiple Protocols In A
Telecommunication Network’
 US Patent application titled ‘A System And Method For Integrating Two Application Server Containers In A
Telecommunication Network’
 EPO application titled ‘Image Classification System And Method’
 EPO and US Patent application titled ‘System and method for speaker recognition’
Please ask for more samples and references if you need.
Case Study – 6: Few Patent Drafting samples

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India - Bhilai | New Delhi | Mumbai | Bangalore
Web : www.epatents.in
Email: contact@epatents.in
Mob: +91 7389 305072

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