Patents and utility models - protecting the technical core! 

Drafting and prosecution work

Patent drafting is storytelling: Not only must the application fulfill the respective prerequisites of the patent law, but also does it have to fulfill your demands regarding the application. 

Do you have to take care of a thorough business and IP portfolio? 

Do you need that extra time for all the other endeveaours in your daily business routine, so you cannot really focus on the drafting process?

Ask yourself or your client

• Is the underlying technology a crucial cornerstone in your or your client's IP portfolio or does it refer to a less important aspect of your or your client's activities, but it is still considered worth to seek protection?
  
• Is the application drafted to become solely a blocking patent to keep competitors on distance? 
  
• Is it intended for selling the application, the resulting patent or the priority rights? 
  
• Do you intend to "obscure" its technical teaching so it is harder for the competition to find it?
  
• What do you or your client want to do with your patent application? 
  

All these questions impact the way the patent application should be drafted.

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Searches

For a thorough patent filing strategy, one needs to know what is out there on the "market". What are competitors doing? Where are holes in their portfolio? Where do they hold potentially blocking patents or utility models?

All these questions have to be addressed based on searches in public patent databases as well as online searches. 

Do you or your client want to lower the risk of a potential infringement? Do you or your client want to expand a patent portfolio, e.g. by filing new applications or by buying prior rights?

Why Manuel Pescher IP Services?

Dr. Manuel Pescher finished a three year educational program in one of Europe's leading IP law firms and is in the final stage ("Amtsjahr") of becoming a German patent attorney. Additionally, Dr. Manuel Pescher is in the final stage of becoming a European patent attorney in parallel. Thus, Dr. Manuel Pescher does not give you binding legal advice yet, but can give support to you, your IP firm or IP boutique in all matters of patent drafting and patent prosecution work and searches, e.g. regarding prior art. To find out more about the person behind Manuel Pescher IP Services - Dr. Manuel Pescher, visit the section