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End-to-end IP admin, data verification, and docketing
IP Administrative Services
Designed to Meet Your NeedsThe IP administration support team at Questel supports global businesses with ad-hoc, end-to-end, and ongoing IP administration, data verification, and docketing tasks. From projects that could entail ad-hoc data transfer, data validation, file creation projects, or working as full-time paralegals for attorneys, delivering as per each client's needs and adapting to their requirements. For some clients, we also work as a virtual IP team, assigning a dedicated paralegal to attorneys to handle their docket and all other patent admin tasks.
The IP administration support team at Questel:
- Assists our clients in managing their patent admin tasks end-to-end.
- Helps our clients not only attain greater cost efficiency, but also works as their extended team, imbibing their organizational values into our ways of functioning.
- Offers standard IP administrative services, such as proofreading, docketing management, and document preparation.
- Adopts a consultative approach to service delivery, including designing complete solutions to meet specific client requirements.
- Assigns IP administration experts and paralegals to clients on an ongoing or project basis; for example, 150 hours a month at a monthly/annual fixed cost or an hourly or project-based cost depending on client requirements.
A Trusted Pair of Hands
We work with corporates and law firms, providing tailored services to meet their needs, as well as helping to update their processes and workflows according to industry best practices.
Our dedicated IP administrative services include everything from paralegal docketing to invoice management and even the development of bespoke eLearning modules.
We have full-time paralegals spread across the globe, including dedicated teams in the US, Europe, and India that focus specifically on patent filing and prosecution, European patent validation, and patent docketing support.
Our IP administrative services are system-agnostic: Clients are assigned a dedicated project manager in their specific region (and language), with in-depth knowledge of all major IP management and docketing systems.
Explore Our IP Administrative Services
Our IP administration specialists provide customizable support across the entire patent prosecution lifecycle, from pre-filing to renewals and more. Explore some of our most popular IP administrative services below or contact us to design a solution uniquely for you.
From Invention Disclosure Form validation to application preparation (oath and declaration, Application Data Sheets (ADS), Invention Disclosure Statement (IDS), Assignments, and Powers of Attorney), we support clients with a wide range of pre-filing support services.
Our team can support with attorney review and signatures, online filing (uploading applications), and record creation on your preferred docketing system.
We regularly create cited prior art reports/IDS for clients, including reviewing family file histories, identifying new references, and creating reports, as well as Office Action Response (OAR) shells, prosecution watch, and post-allowance reviews.
We organize grant notices for inventors and stakeholders, provide patent proofreading, and inventor awards and notifications.
We oversee communications with renewal providers and deliver invoice management services.
We support clients with one-off projects from docketing system migration to data validation projects and take responsibility for document scanning and database management, docketing backlog clearance, document management, and more.
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