Searches
Patent searches
Patent searches (invention patents, utility models and designs/models) are carried out on specialized data banks and are intended to verify the novelty of an invention, to investigate the state of the art with respect to a specific topic and to avoid infringement of third party patents.
The data obtained from the databases are processed and interpreted by us to provide the customer with a search report that contains useful information for his business.
. Nominative searches, by owner and/or inventor.
. Searches by subject/argument.
. Priority searches to identify any prior rights of third parties that could be an obstacle to obtaining the exclusive patent.
. Surveillance of the state of the art and specific topics with indication of patents and models in the interested field of activity for the assistance in the development strategies and technological innovation.
. Check on the validity of patents and models, status and territorial extensions.
. Supply of copies of Italian and foreign patents.
TRADEMARK SEARCHES
Searches in the field of trademarks are carried out on specialized data bamks and are aimed at avoiding any obstacles to the registration of a trademark, obtaining useful information for building an effective filing strategy and avoiding conflicts with third-party trademarks.
. Priority and novelty searches in Italy and abroad.
. Searches for identity and similarity
. Nominative searches, by owner
. Worldwide searches for the planning of strategies for the use and registration of trademarks
. Surveillance of European Union trademark applications already published
. Worldwide surveillance of possible trademark counterfeits and imitations.
. Check on the validity of trademarks, status and territorial extensions.
. Searches between company names and de facto trademarks (with reservations for certain geographical areas).
. Searches between Domain Names in the Italian and foreign registries.
. Watching service to promptly identify the presence of identical or similar third party trademarks and give rise, in the countries where this is possible, to the opposition procedure.
