Valuetech Consulting Inc.

Intellectual Property : Patents

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Intellectual Property Specialists

We are Intellectual Property Specialists working with the support of a US Patent Agent. An Intellectual Property Specialist will work as part of your scientific team to ensure that your inventions are properly protected in a timely manner. An Intellectual Property Specialist will, in close cooperation with your inventors, understand and express the full scope of your inventions in clear and appropriate language. An Intellectual Property Specialist may also work as part as a legal team, concentrating on prior art searches and infringement analyses. To ensure cost effectiveness throughout the patenting process, an Intellectual Property Specialist will help you to do as much work as possible in house, in order to minimise your expenditure on patent agents, and will also liaise with a patent agent on your behalf. This can be a patent agent or patent attorney working as part of your external counsel, an independent Canadian patent agent or US patent agent, or our own US patent agent. As patenting activity can vary from occasional to full time, often with an uneven workload, it makes sense to hire an Intellectual Property Specialist as a contractor as and when needed.

Patent Services: Disclosure - Prior Art - Draft - Application - Prosecution

Valuetech will work with you and, if desired, your patent agent to help you get a patent, and we will provide help at any stage of the patenting process. The first step is to define precisely what the invention is, and we will work in consultation with an inventor to prepare a disclosure document in which the invention is both clearly described and clearly differentiated from existing products. The next step is to determine whether the invention is really novel and has a good chance of being patentable, by comparing it with existing inventions in the same field. Valuetech will undertake and document a prior art study in which we will set out a comparison of your invention with what is already known. With an invention disclosure and prior art study, the next step is to prepare the claims and draft the patent application. We act as your scribe to set down an initial draft and then work with a patent agent who will finalise the text and the claims to complete the patent application. Once the application is filed, there are often further requirements to be met, such as responding to the patent examiner's questions. We will help you prepare the basis of technical arguments to ensure that your patent agent has enough quality information to make a strong response to the examiner. This phase may be repeated during the prosecution stage leading up to the grant of the patent. Contact us if you need help with your patents.

Technical Expertise

The Intellectual Property Specialists at Valuetech have experience in areas of medical devices, optical crystals, polymer materials, alloys, holography, cryogenic devices, electronics, gas lasers, solid state lasers, 3D photography, 3D display, LED's, LCD's, systems including software, algorithms and mechanical devices.

About us

Valuetech is a company of intellectual property experts with PhD level training in either the physical sciences or engineering, working with the support of a patent agent. We are based in Vancouver BC, Canada, and have clients in several countries around the world, including the US, UK, Belgium, Netherlands and China. The company was founded in 2000 and serves the cost conscious high-tech community by providing an alternate both to having a full-time in-house employee and to relying entirely on an external patent agent. Our clients range from individual inventors with an entrepreneurial spirit, through small to medium companies with ongoing product introduction and expanding patent portfolios, to the well established Fortune 500.

Valuetech Contact

Tel. +1 604 781 4825
Fax +1 815 550 1244

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© Valuetech 2002-8. Valuetech Intellectual Property: Patents in Vancouver & Lower Mainland BC, Canada
Last updated September 2008.  Valuetech Consulting Inc.