Patent Opposition Searches India by Effectual Services empower you to challenge competitors' patents effectively. We monitor Indian Patent Office filings closely to spot opportunities for pre-grant oppositions (within 6 months of publication) or post-grant ones (anytime post-issuance). Our comprehensive prior art searches across global databases uncover novelty gaps, inventive step lacks, and other grounds under the Patents Act 1970. This strategic service helps block undue monopolies, safeguarding your market position through precise evidence mapping and opposition filings.
Effectual Services has a team of highly skilled professionals, including lawyers and engineers who specialize in conducting comprehensive patent searches. The Engineers and technical experts bring in-depth understanding and knowledge of the Indian Patent Act 1970 and in various technical fields.
Team of lawyers, engineers, bachelors, masters, and PhDs expert in Indian Patent Act 1970 conducts 2000+ prior art, 600+ invalidity/validity, 1000+ infringement searches yearly on Orbit, Patseer, Espacenet, Google Patents, and NPL.
Services tailor to client needs, from identifying patents within opposition timeframes to drafting notices with claim charts and evidence mapping for pre-grant or post-grant filings. This includes monitoring competitor filings and consulting patent attorneys for valid grounds like lack of novelty or inventive step.
Rigorous processes use advanced tools and strategies to review patents, file wrappers, and prior art, guaranteeing adherence to Indian Patent Office requirements and minimizing procedural risks.
Case studies demonstrate outcomes like successful AI patent oppositions and US office action resolutions, protecting client IP through timely submissions and strong arguments.
Deadlines are met with streamlined filing, ongoing monitoring, and collaboration to refine oppositions, reducing monopoly risks and supporting long-term IP defense.
Clear communication, transparency, and responsiveness ensure clients stay informed, with high-volume expertise fostering trust and strategic market protection in India.
Identify the specific patent which client want to oppose and ensuring the patent is within the allowed timeframe for opposition.
Review the patent document & File wrapper
Performed variety of search strategies on Patent and NPL databases.
Determine valid legal grounds for opposition and Consult Patent Attorney provides guidance.
preparing claim charts, Mapping, highlighting the most relevant prior art references, Reports
File Pre-Grant/ Post-grant Opposition
File Pre-Grant/ Post-grant Opposition
Draft a detailed notice with supporting evidence.
Submit the notice of opposition within the specified deadlines
Effectual Services has a team of highly skilled professionals, including lawyers and engineers who specialize in conducting comprehensive patent searches. The Engineers and technical experts bring in-depth understanding and knowledge of the Indian Patent Act 1970 and in various technical fields.
Company X, a prominent AI technology firm based in India, specializing in cutting-edge software solutions and artificial intelligence applications. Company X became aware of a pending patent application that threatened their core technology, a sophisticated machine learning algorithm used in their flagship product. The client needed to protect their innovative technology by opposing the patent's grant.
Effectual services has highly skilled professionals team of Engineers, Lawyers, Bachelors, Masters and PhDs. Our team first initiated an initial assessment to understand the client's concerns and objectives.
The technical expertise conducted an extensive prior art search to identify relevant patents, publications, and technologies that could be used to challenge the patent application's novelty and inventive step. We use various patent & NPL databases for conducting comprehensive patent searches: Orbit, Patseer, Espacenet, Google patents, Amplified Database, Relecura, Ambercite, AI-tools, IEEE, CiteSeerX, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, .
We prepared a well-structured pre-grant opposition petition, ensuring that it adhered to the procedural requirements specified by the Indian Patent Office. The petition included a detailed explanation of how the patent application's claims lacked novelty and inventive step in light of the identified prior art.
Based on the prior art search results, our team worked closely with Company X's technical team to identify strong grounds for opposition.
Our Professional lawyers and engineers ensuring that the opposition petition was filed within the prescribed timeframe.
Our organisation helped the XYZ Patent Company to protect the client's valuable intellectual property, by conducting thorough prior art searches, crafting strong opposition arguments, and complying with procedural requirements. We ensuring their continued growth and success in the industry.
Our client, a software development company based in the United States, encountered a series of office actions from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) disputing the patentability of their innovative software algorithm.
The client had developed a cutting-edge software algorithm with wide-ranging applications across industries. However, they faced repeated objections from the USPTO examiner, posing a threat to their patent grant.
We implemented a tailored office action response strategy, which included
Conducted a detailed technical analysis of the software algorithm to address the examiner's objections accurately.
Strategically refined the patent claims to provide a more specific and defensible scope of protection.
Crafted persuasive legal arguments supporting the patentability of the software, citing relevant case law and precedents.
Collaborated closely with the USPTO examiner, offering clarifications and additional information to address concerns.
Proposed amendments to the patent claims to align with the examiner's feedback while preserving the core innovation.
Our tailored office action response strategy led to the grant of the software patent by the USPTO. The client's innovative algorithm received protection, enabling them to explore new business opportunities and maintain a competitive edge in the technology sector.
An opposition search examines patent and non-patent prior arts to find possible challenges that might be made against the issuance of a new patent (the patent office refers to this as the opposition window, which is the brief time frame before and after a new patent is granted).
For invalidating a patent, there are time consuming and expensive patent litigation proceedings in various jurisdictions around the world.
The Patents Amendment Act, 2005 provided for an integrated opposition system in India which allows both Pre and Post-grant opposition of a patent so as to ensure the quality and validity of granted patents.
Effectual Services, Once a trademark application is filed at Trademark Registry, it is examined by the Trademark Registrar with respect to distinctiveness of an applied mark. If the Trademark Registrar gets satisfied about the distinct nature.
Effectual services uses various databases and can be invaluable in conducting comprehensive patent searches
Safeguard your competitive position by monitoring competitor filings and challenging potentially invalid patents through comprehensive pre-grant and post-grant opposition strategies in accordance with the Indian Patent Act.
Thorough searches across patent and non-patent literature with strict timelines.
Grounded in Sections 25(1) and 25(2) for pre-grant and post-grant oppositions.
Custom reports, claim mappings, and attorney-guided grounds identification.
