Patents

• Conducting patent searches (including bibliographic searches, prior-art and infringement searches)
• Advising on the patentability of inventions
• Drafting specification, preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications
• Maintaining and investigating the validity of patents
• Invalidation and cancellation of patents
• Litigation to assert the rights to patents
• Negotiating, drafting assignment and license agreements, and other agreements related to patent
• Recording patent assignment and license agreements with the NOIP
• Advising on the enforcement of patent rights against infringers
• Prosecuting and defending patent infringement suits

Specification

The description often comprises the following elements:

• Title of the invention: pointing out the subject matter(s) of the invention;
• Technical field: indicating the technical field to which the invention relates;
• Background art: specifying the background art known to the applicant, useful for understanding, conducting patentability search and substantive examination of the invention. Documents reflecting the closest prior art should be preferably cited therein;
• Summary of the invention: disclosing the invention in the way that it can be understood, and stating its improvements over the prior art, if any, with reference to the background art;
• Brief description of the drawings (if any): briefly describing the figures in the drawings;
• Detail description of the invention: providing at least the best mode contemplated by the inventor for implementing the invention; this part should be written in terms of examples.

Claims

The claims establish of protection scope of the invention. The claims must define the objects of the invention to be patented. The claims should be clear and concise and fully supported by the description. The description and the drawings may be used to interpret the claims.

The claims may include independent claims and dependent claims and must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. The claims should preferably be arranged in order of protection scope so that the first claim is the broadest. All dependent claims should be grouped together with the claim or claims to which they refer to the extent practicable. A dependent form must be construed to include all the limitations of the claims incorporated by reference into the dependent claim.

Each claim must be written in a single sentence and must not rely on references to the description or drawings such as “as described in part…of description” or “as illustrated in figure…of the drawings“.