Strategic IP Partner For Foreign IP firms
If you represent an Intellectual Property firm, you typically are specialized in your country/jurisdiction and you have foreign associates in other countries who are each specialized in their respective jurisdictions to help your client obtain patent protection in multiple countries. When your clients would choose you to represent them they would look for:
- Expertise: Deep knowledge of jurisdictions, technology domains, and subject matter eligibility requirements to achieve successful patent grants
- Breadth of coverage: Comprehensive patent services across all target countries for protection
- Communication: Clear explanation of patent processes across jurisdictions for transparency and predictability
- Cost effectiveness: Strategic cost optimization across multiple jurisdictions without compromising quality or margins
- Follow up: Diligent tracking of compliances, formalities and due dates to protect client interests
The above metrics are important for you to win and retain the trust of your clients. In addition to these, you would be interested in expanding your business to get more patent prosecution work for your existing practice. Hence, reciprocity, which is the ability of your foreign associates to engage your services in your jurisdiction for their clients is key.
Metayage and Foreign IP firms:
The Indian patents act has some unique provisions on subject matter eligibility, including business methods, algorithms and software per se, diagnostic and treatment processes, mere arrangement or re-arrangement, and mere admixtures. These criteria pose additional challenges to obtaining patents in India for software, AI, Fintech, Diagnostic and Therapeutic processes, food and beverages, etc.
By developing deep expertise in these technologies and by coming up with innovative arguments and strategies, Metayage has a track record of consistently delivering patent grants in these domains. Over our 18 year existence, we have identified, carefully vetted, and nurtured strategic alliances with trusted foreign associates in almost all major markets around the world including the developed as well as fast growing developing markets. Hence you can expand the breadth of your patent coverage by partnering with Metayage.
The Metayage team has invested in understanding the legal intricacies and specific requirements of the patent offices in each country by conducting research on the patent laws and rules as well as with inputs from our expert associates. We periodically communicate with you to keep you informed on the implications of these developments and their impact on your client's patent portfolio, so that you can do the same for your clients with clarity and confidence.
Whereas India is not a developed country, since India is the fastest growing large economy in the world, the number of patent filings in foreign countries by Indian applicants is growing rapidly, Hence, we are able to offer competitive quotations not only for our patent services in India, but also for all other major markets.
