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              Benefit from end-to-end support for vital but time-consuming administrative tasks with our complete range of patent support services, including searches, translations, international filings, validations, unitary patent management, recordals, renewals, and more
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              Overview

              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.

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              How We Make a Difference

              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.

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              Discover Our Full Range of On-Demand or Fully Integrated Patent Support Services

              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.

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              Questel's Patent Support Services include Patent Search

              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.

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              Questel's Patent Support Services include International Filing Support

              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.

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              Questel's Patent Support Services include Patent Translation

              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).

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              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.

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              Questel's Patent Support Services include Unitary Patent Solutions

              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.

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              Questel's Patent Support Services include Patent Renewals

              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.

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              Questel's Patent Support Services include Patent Recordals

              Reason to Choose Questel for Patent Support Services

              Cost savings
              We save our clients on average 20-30%
              Complete transparency
              We reconcile and itemize bills for full transparency 
              Risk reduction
              You can trust Questel to deliver every time
              Global consistency
              Apply and enforce your IP strategy worldwide
              Increased productivity
              Free up internal teams to focus on value-added tasks

              Patent Support Services Designed to Make a Difference

              You can rely on Questel’s extensive range of patent support services throughout the entire lifecycle of your patent assets. As the world’s largest international filer, we deliver unrivaled access to a global network of data scientists, patent attorneys, paralegals, translators, analysts, subject matter experts, consultants, and local agents. Our optimized processes ensure end-to-end, efficient and effective delivery, reducing administrative costs while upholding and even improving quality.
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              Reasons to choose Questel's Patent Support Services

              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.

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              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.

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              For international extension filings
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              1,500+
              Patent translators and agents worldwide
              ISO certified
              ISO 9001 and 17100 for quality management and translation services
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