Patent litigation is very expensive and takes years to resolve. The decision to enforce or challenge a patent is a vital one and must take into account the company’s overall business goals and strategies. The early association of a patent litigation counsel and a support firm is crucial to the outcome. The combination of a law firm that takes care of all legal work and a support firm that takes care of all technical work increases the success probability. Most importantly, we reduce the overall cost by allowing your attorneys to focus on their case preparation. Our team was been part of number of cases and have worked with law firms for years on huge litigation cases. We mainly support our clients in performing various patent searches such as invalidity search / prior art search, preparing claim charts, and analysis of file wrapper / file history.

Pre Trial Assessments and Claim Construction Charts
We offer a number of Pre trial assessment services that help client’s ascertain the strength and preparedness of the case. Services like e-discovery, document review, reverse engineering, teardown and code review help in further strengthening the case. We also assist attorneys in zeroing down on best possible claim construction and prepare charts that include intrinsic and extrinsic evidences. These charts help a lot while preparing for Markman hearing.

Invalidity Searches / Prior Art Searches And Claim Charts
An invalidity search / prior art search involves conducting a thorough patent and non-patent literature search to identify prior art refernces /literature that might invalidate the patent in contention. The invalidity search / prior art search report includes the details of potential prior art literature (along with bibliographic details) and a mapping of the claims to the relevant text of the prior art literature/references. In the invalidity search / prior art search, we also analyze other legal aspects such as antecedent and enablement issues, non compliance to duty of disclosure, etc. The invalidity search / prior art search report help in strengthening our client’s invalidity assertions. All these findings are presented in the form of claim charts.

Invalidity Contentions
We help our clients review and respond to adverse party’s invalidity claims and expert reports by finding out the technical differences. This service helps the attorneys frame very strong arguments.

File Wrapper / File History Analysis
File wrappers or file histories hold a lot of valuable information that is generally overlooked because of the huge time required to completely analyze them. We at Effectual Services provide all this important information in couple of sheets so that it can be easily analyzed. The inclusions of this report are bibliographic details, legal and technical analysis of the entire life span of a patent. File history estoppel, if any, are also highlighted.