When does quality matter with respect to your patent legal work?
If you ever plan to use your patent portfolio, then the answer is … always!
If and when you ever try to rely on or use your patent portfolio, the quality of its pending patent applications and issued patents is of utmost importance. Impending disaster looms when the time comes to use the patent portfolio for various purposes including licensing, assertion against infringers, and in defense without high quality and enforceable patents.
At Garlick & Markison (G&M), our patent attorneys have an average of more than two decades (20+ years) experience in preparation and prosecution of patent applications and in building valuable patent portfolios.
A typical model for many patent law firms is having a senior attorney serve as the point of contact for a client, but the individuals who actually do the work to build the patent portfolio typically have relatively much less or little experience. It is an anecdotal, often humorous, yet nonetheless accurate description that senior attorneys at most patent law firms do not actually do the work in drafting and preparing patent applications or prosecuting them before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
In many patent law firms, it is typical to hear comments along the lines of “… Yeah, I haven't drafted a patent application since my first few years with the firm,” or “… Of course, you no longer do prep and pros (i.e., preparation and prosecution of patent applications) once you've acquired a few years of experience and achieved a bit of seniority.”
This leads to the obvious question …
Who is actually doing your patent legal work?
To generate a high-quality, enforceable patent portfolio, it is entirely dependent on the skill and experience of the patent attorneys who craft the portfolio and who draft and prosecute the patent applications in it. Garlick & Markison (G&M) provides unmatched years of experience and skill in doing so.
**Please note that this article is not legal advice; it is not a legal opinion; nor should you rely on it as legal advice or as a legal opinion. This article merely expresses the author’s general thoughts on a topic regarding the business of patents. Nothing in this article establishes any form of an attorney-client relationship between you, the reader, and the author of this article.
