Patent Investigations + Counseling
Streamlined Services
Our professionals understand that developing a comprehensive intellectual property portfolio is essential to successfully maintaining and enhancing our clients’ competitive position in their marketplace. We have developed in-house software tools to monitor and evaluate our clients’ competition so we can provide more value to our clients’ and provide them with the information they need to make critical decisions to be a leader in their industry.
Pauly DeVries Smith & Deffner has extensive experience in providing patent searches, patentability opinions, opinions relating to infringement of patents, and intellectual property due diligence investigations. We analyze IP portfolios for both offensive and defensive purposes.
Portfolio Management
Many successful companies accumulate a portfolio of patents that protect their investments in research and development. As time passes and the marketplace shifts, companies need to reevaluate where patent protection is still needed and where it is not.
We offer help to clients in periodically reviewing their patent portfolios and we offer guidance on how they can best realize the maximum benefits of intellectual property assets within budgetary constraints. Sometimes our evaluation leads us to advise trimming back parts of a portfolio that are no longer needed. At other times our evaluation leads us to advise expanding the scope of rights in an important product or technology in the U.S. or foreign jurisdictions to maximize competitive advantage.
Whatever the outcome, our commonsense approach to this process helps clients wisely match capital investment to business opportunities and helps assure that the highest possible return on investment is achieved.