An Overview on What We Can Do to Help You
Protecting your product patent and trademarks allow you to maintain healthy margins and market share. You must take advantage of intellectual property protections to shut down competitors, and prevent theft of your clients and sales.
Avoid infringing IP of the competition. Before launching a new product, it is critical to clear your product of all potential IP infringement, because nobody wants to get sued.
Karich & Associates can review your potential new product, or improved existing product, to determine what forms of intellectual property may be available to protect your product from competition. We also provide research services to ensure that your product does not infringe the intellectual property of competitors.
Patent Services
Utility Patents
Can be used to protect functional and useful improvements of your invention.
Provisional Patents
A temporary form of utility patents that are typically filed to save expenses.
Design Patents
Can be used to protect the ornamental appearance of your invention.
FOREIGN FILING
International patent and trademark protection is often required, to protect the product throughout the world.
PATENTABILITY SEARCH: Searches to determine if your product is potentially patentable.
CLEARANCE SEARCH: Searches to determine if your product may infringe any existing patents.
INFRINGEMENT ANALYSIS (DESIGN AROUND): Used to determine if your product infringes a specific patent and to design around the patent if necessary to avoid infringement.
PATENT PORTFOLIO VALUATION: Used to determine the value of your patent or patents, for purposes of sale of the patent or company.
LICENSING ANALYSIS & VALUATION RESEARCH: Used to determine the viability of licensing a patent portfolio, and determining a valuation for the license (royalty rates, upfront payments, exclusivity, etc.), on a national or international basis.
Trademark Services
Intent-to-Use Trademarks
Can be used to register your trademark before before it is in use.
In-Use Trademarks
Can be used to register your trademark that is currently being used in commerce.
Trademark Searches
Can be used to determine whether your trademark is already in use or has been used.
Additional Services
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Office Action Responses
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Licensing Agreements
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Assignments