Before Filing an Application

- Make sure your invention is new, non-obvious and useful in comparison to prior arts, so as to determine whether or not it can be patented.

- Make it clear by listing what are the distinguishing features and advantageous effects of your invention.

- Lay down strategies as to how to protect your invention.

- Find out what types of application should be filed to protect your invention.

- Determine what to claim for your invention.

• TRADEMARK

Before Filing an Application

- Search existing identical and similar marks in the database.

- Determine how you suppose to use your mark.

- Find out how to fully protect your mark.

- Find out how to successfully have your mark registered.

- Determine what types of mark in connection with the goods and services are supposed to be filed.

• COPYRIGHT

Before Filing an Application

- Learn what are the advantages in registering copyright for your work.

- Find out if copyright protect your work.

- What should submit in order to register copyright for your work.

“ Patent design around ” means to invent competitive alternatives that design around the original patent by which may not infringe the patent. A patent is granted by the Patent Office providing with monopoly rights to inventors in exchange for disclosing technical features as to how to make and use their inventions. Normally it is often possible for someone who wants to invent in the same technical field by utilizing the original patent as a guide for developing an alternative that does not infringe the original patent.

• PROCEDURE

– Find out what is the subject of the patent to design around.

- Ensure if any legal ethic issue may involve in the new design around case against previous cases.

- Find out with client about why and what to design around.

- Determine what are the basic functions required for what is about to design around.

- Evaluate what will be the possibility to have the design around case done with sufficient inventive steps.

- Sign a contract with client to formally accept the design around case

In addition to IP protection, TIPA lawyers and team members with extensive knowledge, backgrounds and experiences in various professional fields can effectively provide tailor-made legal resolutions for each dispute concerning a wide array of areas from foreign investment, corporate operations, mergers and acquisitions, international trade, admiralty, product liability, consumer relations, fair trade to business contract and projects.

• SERVICES PROVIDED

– Foreign investment
– Corporate operations
– Mergers and acquisitions
– International trade
– Admiralty
– Product liability
– Consumer relations
– Fair trade
– Business contract and projects

- Find out how strong your patent is.
– Find out what will be the possible defenses available to the defendant.
– Conduct a patent infringement analysis in order to determine whether the product or the process infringes upon an existing patent claim.
– A careful pre-suit investigation should be performed in order to flesh out the strengths of the case and the overall likelihood of success, the investigation should include infringement claim charts, a prior art search, a review of the parties’ prior commercial activities contacts.
– Start collecting infringement evidence.
– Notify the infringer by certified mail.
– Consider whether to sue the infringer and find out what will be your tactics in the infringement case.

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