Patent Watches

Active Protection for Your Patents: Patent Watch

Once your technology company is established and you are producing and distributing products or services based on patented technologies — you are a full-fledged business. Like any business owner, you have countless day-to-day worries: personnel, finances, advertising and marketing, to name only a few.

But what about continuing to defend your carefully won intellectual property protections? It is surprisingly easy for a successful business to rest on the deceptive protection offered by the existence of the patents themselves.

• Unfortunately, the truth of the competitive technology marketplace is that your competitors may not let patent law stop them from attempting to compete with your offerings. You may be able to use your patents to stop such competition and maintain your position of power in the marketplace. However, you cannot fight until you know who to fight. This requires paying active attention to your competitors' activities and their own intellectual property filings.

Conversely, you are running a significant risk if you continue to develop your technology and grow your business without knowledge of your competitors’ intellectual property rights. Without an understanding of what intellectual property rights your competitors can assert against you, you expose yourself to lawsuits and threats of lawsuits that could drain your company’s valuable resources.

Intellectual Property Protection During the Life Cycles of Your Business

One of the key qualities of the law office of Robert Plotkin, P.C. is that we continue to serve as legal advisers and advocates for our clients long after the original patent application process is complete. A highly-valuable patent law service that we offer to all clients is a patent watch. Through the patent watch process, we act as intellectual property watchdogs for our clients, providing competitive intelligence and market research to help you keep your competitive advantage.

We can tailor a patent watch to your business needs to include any one or more of the following steps:

• Monitoring the intellectual property filings of your defined competitors.
• Monitoring the progress of a specific patent application filed by one of your competitors in the Patent Office.
• Monitoring the marketplace for new competitors and watching their patent filings.
• Advising you on which patent applications to file, or how to modify your existing patent applications, in response to any competitive intellectual property we find.
• Advising you on how to modify your existing products, or your technology under development, to avoid infringing any competitive intellectual property we find.

Many people do not realize that monitoring the patent activity of your competitors can be a highly valuable form of competitive intelligence. Companies often file patent applications months or years before releasing a product. Since most patent applications are published for the world to see 18 months after they are submitted to the Patent Office, performing an ongoing patent watch on your competitors can provide you with a window into your competitors’ technology development plans that you could not obtain merely by monitoring their products and public statements. A patent watch can alert you that a competitor is considering expanding the reach of its business to overlap with yours. Receiving such advance notice can provide you with precious time to take responsive action.

Our Patent Watch Service is Handled by a Highly-Qualified Intellectual Property Attorney

Attorney Plotkin's credentials for conducting patent watches are above reproach. Mr. Plotkin is a graduate of MIT who is trained in the development of computer technology, a patent lawyer with over a decade of experience at leading Boston patent law firms before founding his own firm, a lecturer at the Boston University School of Law, and a world-recognized expert on computer hardware and software patents.

Contact the Law Office of Patent Lawyer Robert Plotkin

We are happy to answer questions about our patent watch service and the other intellectual property advocacy we handle from this office.

We use state-of-the-art technology to be available to all our clients at all times, nationally and internationally. We provide flexible in-person and telephone appointment times to accommodate our clients' busy schedules.

Each new client receives a complimentary 30-minute consultation.

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