Patent Monitoring
An indispensable tool for reviewing the IP of competitors.
Patent surveillance is an indispensable tool for companies in order to always keep an up-to-date overview of competitors’ intellectual property rights.
Serviva provides patent attorneys and companies with the foundation to complete this important task.
Part of professional patent management is the monitoring of competitor patent applications. This concerns known property rights whose status may change, as well as new releases of property rights according to predetermined criteria. Only those who are informed in good time about newly published applications or changes can react accordingly.
Legal Status Monitoring
Do you wish to stay informed about the status of certain property rights?
Legal or procedural monitoring is a convenient and cost-effective way to stay informed about the status and thus about the real effect of known patent applications, for example, in the course of granting proceedings, but also about giving up property rights.
Our legal status monitoring offers you a variety of creative options: from tabular overviews to targeted monitoring of individual events (e.g. issuance) or groups of events.
Prompt, worldwide – on request with explanations for non-specialised recipients.
We are happy to take over the publication numbers you wish to have monitored or search them for you.
We monitor the events you have selected and are happy to advise you on your selection.
We do, of course, adjust monitoring for you at regular intervals.
Applicant Monitoring
Do you wish to be the first to know what the competition is doing?
Serviva’s competitor monitoring sets standards.
We not only provide you with the protection rights of directly known and nominated applicants currently and reliably in a format of your choice, but also, and as desired, property rights of controlled companies, cooperation and project partners, sorted according to subject area or applicant.
Newly published property rights in a technological area can be monitored using key terms and/or selected classifications (e.g. IPC, CPC classes).
Combinations are, of course, also possible.
We will be happy to advise you within the framework of an initial search regarding a suitable monitoring profile and monitoring cycle (e.g. monthly or quarterly).
Monitoring Technological Fields
Do you wish to always keep technological areas up to date?
The monitoring of certain classes is one of the most common strategies for monitoring technological areas. Serviva, therefore, uses different classification systems, e.g. IPC and CPC for monitoring. Often, a combination with suitable key terms makes sense to increase the relevance of monitoring results. Our researchers have years of experience in optimising complex search queries.
In addition to our basic offer, we also offer our customers the monitoring of non-patent publications in conference papers and journals or patent citation monitoring.
If required, our experts can also carry out a technical review of the results of technological area monitoring in order to sort out irrelevant documents in advance. This evaluation according to previously agreed criteria significantly reduces the number of documents to be delivered and thus also the processing costs for our customers.
Delivery of results
The results can be sent by e-mail, secure data room, post, fax or data carrier – encrypted and not encrypted – as well as for each search profile to different groups of recipients, as desired.