Publication Announcement: Patent Law Client Case Studies Video Seminar

The goal of this Video Seminar is to provide lawyers with essential information about patent law cases. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 55 minutes of live video with Ahmed Davis of Fish & Richardson P.C., sharing his knowledge on patent law strategies.

The video seminar provides specific information on patent law client cases studies, including the background, step by step process and strategic analysis.

Samples of the types of questions answered in the Video Seminar include:

- How can client case studies be best used to share meaningful, insightful, and productive information? What are the key areas we can learn from?

- What trends are you seeing in patent law? How are your clients and cases different today than they were two years ago?

- What procedure do you use to identify and understand complicated, technical aspects of the patent case? What kinds of technical challenges have you run into?

- What process is used to analyze the risks? What strategic methods do you use to minimize the client’s risk?

- What is your general strategy for patentability? What are the legal challenges for this issue and how do you customize a strategy for each client?

- What are the issues for international patent cases?

- What are the most common outcomes for patent cases?

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Publication Announcement: DVD Seminar: What to Know About Interference Issues

In “What to Know About Interference Issues,” Charles Gholz, a specialist in patent interferences, shares his innovative and thought provoking ideas on the most up-to-date successful best practices.

The seminar is a time efficient way for you to take a step back, update your own strategies and identify any proactive steps you can be taking for your clients. Viewable on any computer or iPod, the seminar is in PowerPoint with 70 minutes of audio narration (and shipped to you on CD). It is guaranteed to enhance your current understanding of the topic and will have an immediate impact on your client strategies that you can begin using right away in your practice.

The seminar focuses on:
- Key Statistics
- Hot Issues
- Cancellation Proceedings
- Derivation Proceedings
- Current Interference Issues that Will Remain But that Won’t Be Handled by the Legislation

Personalize the insights from this seminar to enhance your own best practices, develop ideas for billable opportunities with current and prospective clients, and stay up to date on the latest thought leadership.

Reviews:

“A tremendous time saver for the busy attorney…” – Michael Goshko, Partner, Burns & Levinson

“Thorough, informative and interesting – these videos are an efficient, effective means of gaining in-depth insight…” – Greg Nowak, Partner, Pepper Hamilton

“.an invaluable provider of this important information.” – Ira Bogner, Partner, Proskauer Rose

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Publication Announcement: Offshoring Patent Services to India

Revenues from the Indian patent services offshoring industry are estimated at $46 m for the calendar year 2007 and are expected to reach $206 m by end 2012.

Typically catering to the international markets, patent services outsourcing to India is still in its infancy with a history of only about 3 to 4 years behind it. There are about 50 vendors in the industry with an estimated 1,550 professionals employed as of end 2007. While a few vendors have been in this business longer, this industry has gained momentum only in the last few years.

Patent services include a wide range of specific tasks or services. We have divided these services into the following broad areas: Patent searches, Patent illustration and proofreading, Patent drafting, Patent analytics, Patent asset management, Patent litigation support and Patent consulting.

Among the various functions in the patent services industry, the manpower intensive and process driven services are more easily offshored. The relatively low-value, high volume services include prior art searches, patent illustration and patent proofreading.

Large corporations are in favor of offshoring patent related (and other legal) work to India as they are the ultimate beneficiaries of the cost savings. The current addressable value of the patent services offshoring market is estimated at $2.2 b. According to Subha Kalathur, analyst and co-author of the report, “Indian vendors have significant opportunity to grow as the current addressable market is 50 times the current size of the industry. Having already established relationships with American companies and law firms, vendors also have significant opportunity in taking on work from the Patent Offices.”

According to Arun Jethmalani, CEO, ValueNotes, “The established vendors with exposure to high-value services will look to complete their array of offerings to attract more business from their existing clients. They will look to leverage end-to-end solutions.”

The report provides an in-depth analysis of the buyer market as well as the Indian vendor space along. Based on the extensive primary research and analysis, ValueNotes has identified top five vendors in this industry – Evalueserve, Pangea3, CPA Global, Lexadigm and Clairvolex.

The report is designed to help:

- Corporations, Law firms and Patent attorneys looking to outsource/offshore
- Outsourcing consultants to evaluate and compare the offerings of vendors
- Offshored patent service providers to understand the offshore opportunity as well as assess their competitive environment
- American and European corporations/law firms looking for Indian partners
- Venture capital companies looking for investment opportunities
- Researchers looking for detailed information on patent services outsourcing

The report is based on secondary data as well as extensive interviews with key people (buyers of patent services, patent attorneys and offshore patent service providers).

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