IP Management

Pre-IP Assessment

IPs are undoubtedly one of the most valued assets of any organization. At the same time, creation and management of IP requires money, efforts, and skills. Adjukines performs pre-IP assessment of your R&D work to decide whether to file or not to file  a patent application, and if it is to be filed  what to file and where to file . This paves the way for subsequent IP drafting, filing, prosecution and overall IP strategy.
For the purpose, team Adjukines:

Interacts with client’s R&D team and helps prepare ‘invention disclosures’

Undertakes patentability analysis based on IP landscape and prior-arts in the field

Helps client assess invention’s scientific, IP and commercial potential

Helps client take go/no-go decision w.r.t. the patent filing

Helps client chalk-out a customized strategy for drafting (for ex. what to claim and what not to), filing (for ex. provisional Vs. complete application), and prosecuting (for ex. India Vs PCT/national entries).

Patent Drafting, Filing and Prosecution

We appreciate that you manage, or would like to manage, a bunch of patents for the inventions developed in-house or in-licensed. Each one of them guzzles money and time. We understand your pain points, and business sentiments associated with them. We understand that priority dates, and prudent and apt rebuttals for the office actions are important. However, tracking patent prosecution processes, or getting them done through your attorneys take your attention away from your primary focus.

Adjukines provides a full-range, end-to-end, service to manage patent drafting, filing, and prosecution, either by

Managing the IP portfolio on its own for the client

Managing the IP portfolio on behalf of its clients in coordination with client’s IP attorneys.

What differentiates Adjukines with regular IP attorneys is Adjukines’s focus on IP exploitation rather than mere filing, prosecution, and maintainance of IP portfolio. Adjukines deals with each patent vis-à-vis its commercial potential, business case, investment proposition, cost-benefit, competition, and end-point.

IP Audit

Given the fact that organizations – be them corporate entities or academic set-ups – have limited resources, and so, they need to diligently take stock of IP portfolio to prioritize their IP assets. Since IP is a cost center, it needs to be supported on techno-legal-commercial merits. Adjukines conducts IP audits to help its clients take crucial go/no-go decisions for their respective IP portfolios. Adjukines is specialized in conducting IP audit by factoring-in multiple aspects, such as:

Status of patent and its prosecution history

Search reports, office actions, objections raised therein, and rebuttals submitted

Latest developments in the scientific and business fields

Estimation / Requirement of financial resources for further maintenance and/or prosecution of the IP portfolio.

Adjukines provides smart IP dashboards to its clients as audit deliverable that helps them take necessary decisions including financial appropriations and continued IP management.

IP Due Diligence

If you are

Developing a new product or service; or

Contemplating in-licensing of a patent, or

Interested in investing in a start-up/company/SPV, or

Getting into a partnership / collaboration wherein background-IP shall form the basis; or

Going to pitch for investment or grant-in-aid proposal, wherein valuation of your IP will impact the overall valuation of the company/proposal or

Negotiating, or will negotiate, a technology out-licensing deal, wherein IP is an important component of the overall
‘asset’ or

Assessing intellectual health of any organization/group for any other purpose like merger, acquisition, or corporate restructuring, then

Adjukines provides specialized and customized IP due diligence service for any such purposes, and adds to the objective decision-making.

IP Intelligence

Patent databases are liberally leveraged as rich sources of information to gather valuable scientific insights, business intelligence and legal wherewithal. Adjukines provides high quality IP intelligence , like

Patent Landscape Analysis: It’s a dashboard of patents exist in a particular field at a particular time in the given geography, which is created through highly specific knowledge of legal and technical aspects of intellectual property rights blended with business insights. Adjukines’s landscape analysis reports are convenient reads of complex interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic factors that are necessary for effective decision-making. Adjukines’s reports provide quality patent informatics that pave the way for strategic directions, resource allocations, business interplays, partnerships, new product strategies etc.

White Space Analysis : Adjukines provides sharp IP analysis to unearth untapped technological areas that are not yet exploited by others. Based on landscaping, Adjukines’s white space analysis helps clients identify research and technology development opportunities, and thereby prioritize and strategize R&D portfolios. An example of a question that can be posed to Adjukines to initiate work in this areas is – ‘Tell us the free space available to develop a cryogenic application using aerogel’. Adjukines has deep expertise in converting such questions into requirement notes, and then to provide a systematic, easy-to-interpret analysis that can feed into client’s decision support system.

Infringement Analysis : Patents are hard earned assets of an organization’s substantial scientific, financial, and intellectual investments made over a period of time, and thus, the owner has the legal rights to prevent others from making, importing, using, offering for sale, or selling a patented invention. However, analysing whether or not somebody has actually infringed your patent is a fairly complex task, involving multiple factors, like precise mapping of a claim vis-à-vis elements of accused product. In infringement driven negotiations, which lead to situations like compensation or licensing of patent (through court-of-law or by way of negotiations), the infringement analysis plays the core role in addition to other commercial factors. Adjukines undertakes customized infringement analysis for its clients to help them ascertain whether it is a worthy proposition to make advancements towards the accused product or not.

Freedom to Operate (FTO) Studies

It is considered as the ‘must done’ exercise not only from the perspective of developing and launching a product/process/service in the market but also from the out-license, in-license, cross-license and investment viewpoints. Adjukines helps clients objectively estimate whether or not they are likely to barge into someone’s IP territory, directly or indirectly.

Adjukines’s high-quality FTO studies for the specified territories assist clients take crucial go/no-go decisions or to ascertain if there is a way to pause, invent around, and/or go-ahead.

Typically, organizations ask questions, such as: “Can we sell a newly developed chromatography-based kit to detect Hb1Ac in diabetic patients in Japan and Taiwan” “Can we develop dendritic cell-based targeted vaccine for breast cancer in US market”.

Other IP Intelligence Services

Adjukines provides variety of other custom-made IP intelligence services to its clients, such as:

List of commercially available products that are off-patent in the specified area

List of commercially available products that are going to be off-patent in the specified geography in the next 1/2/3 years

Analysis of an, or a set of, organization/s specific patents

Scan of players in the specified field to explore collaboration/partnership/acquisition propositions

And such other intelligence requirements.

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