Patent ProofreadingPatent Proofreading
As per various studies, over 90% of patents issued by the USPTO have errors related to the claimed terms, dependency in claims, claim duplicity, cited references, inventor names, specifications, etc. It is imperative for assignees to proofread patents to identify all the PTO/Applicant errors in a patent, ensure that these errors are not detrimental to a patent’s enforceability, ensure that the claim coverage of a patent is not altered and/or limited, the overall scope of a patent is not adversely affected.
Effectual Services patent proofreading process is an extremely detailed analysis of a patent’s prosecution history to identify any PTO or applicant error. Our team members run thorough manual as well as automated checks simultaneously to ensure that a patent is free of any errors. Further, our teams ensure that all grammatical errors, typographical errors, and legal errors are eliminated. We review the entire specifications including drawing and report all errors to our clients to decide upon the next steps. We also prepare Certificate of Correction that can be filed with the PTO. This adds value to the issued patents.

Information Disclosure Statement (IDS)
US patent law imposes a duty upon the patent applicant to disclose all known prior art references (patent as well as non-patent/product) that would be pertinent to determining the patentability of an application. Intentional non filing of an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) can render an issued patent as invalid and non-enforceable. For preparing an IDS one source of references is any search report on a counterpart patent application (for example a PCT ISR or PCT International Preliminary Report on Patentability or a search report from a country outside of the US). Another source of references is the previous patent activity by the same applicant (for example previous patents in the same general area or previous patents by the same inventors). The duty of disclosure is continuing and obligates the disclosure of known art not only at the time of filing the application, but also during the prosecution thereof. Effectual Services team can prepare USPTO accepted IDS for their clients.

Docketing
Docketing is a clerical yet high risk job that can be more efficiently performed by people specializing in it. Outsourcing of docketing function leads to improved quality and reduction in cost spent on full time employees in administrative jobs. All important dates regarding patent application are properly docketed in advance and timely alerts are given so that the client does not lose any time line.

Trademark Searching & Registration
Trademarks play an increasingly vital role in today's economy. They are essential in preserving brand and identity of Corporates/Organizations and must be protected and carefully maintained. Effectual Services offer a comprehensive range of trademark solutions. Effectual Services provides solutions across entire trademark lifecycle from the selection and adoption of marks, to supporting prosecution driven tasks, through to enforcement and trademark maintenance. Leveraging our trademark expertise, our global agent network and sophisticated technology, we serve as a strategic extension to your trademark team. The process to register a trademark involves three phases: Application, Examination and Opposition. We perform comprehensive trademark searches for registered and pending trademarks. The search is conducted for marks that sound alike, are similar or confusingly similar to registered marks.
We search the International Class under which the mark may be filed according to the description of goods and services provided to us. We have collaborations to provide trademark registration and search services in many countries.

Paralegal Services
Our paralegal team offers superior quality, cost effective, and time bound legal services to law firms and organizations worldwide. We offer services like Preparing and filing patent applications, Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) preparation, Legal Research, Deposition Summarization, etc.

Translation Services
A translator that has both technical and linguist proficiency is the only person you should trust with the technical translation of a patent. We have capabilities to provide translation services to and from German, French, Japanese and Chinese languages.