Patent Support Services Tailored to Your Individual Needs
To file and maintain patent rights securely and effectively, you need access to a trusted partner with specialist knowledge, dedicated tools, and efficient solutions. Questel’s patent support services deliver peace of mind by ensuring that high risk, routine administrative tasks are managed safely and seamlessly on your behalf. As importantly, we tailor all our IP solutions to meet your exact needs so you can maximize your budget and resources. Optimize your patent management process today by choosing from our extensive and flexible range of patent filing and maintenance solutions, including administrative support services and technologies.
The world’s top filers, law firms and institutions rely on Questel to add efficiencies and deliver cost savings and peace of mind. Discover how our patent support services have helped multinational conglomerate Honeywell to achieve its IP goals in this video interview with Carrie Sindelar, General Counsel, IP Operations.
Patent Search
Gain valuable and in-depth knowledge of the status of your patents, the innovation landscape and prior art. From patentability searches to freedom-to-operate and invalidity assessments, our technical experts will work with you to identify state-of-the-art documents, organize patent portfolios, and prioritize future activities.
International Filing Support
Streamline international patent filings and reduce the burden on in-house teams by choosing Questel’s end-to-end foreign filing support service. As the world leader for patent foreign filing, you can trust us to deliver top-quality filing-ready translations and filing services at competitive pricing. Our centralized model ensures full transparency, including access to a dedicated IP portal to create estimates, send instructions, store documents and correspondence, and track IP spend.
Patent Translation
Reduce management time, costs and headaches without sacrificing quality by centralizing your international patent translation needs with one global partner. Questel will manage the entire process on your behalf, coordinating instructions, deadlines and costs whether you use your own agents or our managed global network of highly experienced patent translators.
EP Grant and Validations
Plan, translate and optimize your European patent filings by working with the global leader for European Patent (EP) administration. Our end-to-end validation process simplifies and reduces the cost of EP obtaining European patent rights in all countries that are signatory to the European Patent Convention (EPC).
Unitary Patent Solutions
Access end-to-end support for all your strategic and administrative unitary patent (UP) matters. Through our IP law firm partners, you can also access dedicated legal and consulting services for UP applications and Unified Patent Court (UPC) opt-out declarations.
Patent Renewals
You can trust our well-established procedures and long-standing global agent network to process annuity payments for your patents and utility models securely and efficiently. We make patent renewals quick and easy, irrespective of case volume or IP management system.
Patent Recordals
Benefit from highly competitive fixed fee rates, predictability and full transparency on all recordals projects. We deliver efficient and timely title updates through our global agent network from start to finish, collecting relevant documentation and managing the differing legal and administrative requirements worldwide.
Reason to Choose Questel for Patent Support Services
Patent Support Services Designed to Make a Difference
Easy On-Boarding
We ensure easy on-boarding by assigning a dedicated project coordinator and ongoing high service levels by providing you with a single point of contact for all IP services.
Dedicated IP Services Portal
Streamline how you instruct, monitor, and budget for patent filing and administrative tasks with our complementary IP Service Portal. Available 24/7, Questel’s secure portal provides instant quotes, real-time tracking, and complete transparency.
