Services
Invention & Patent Education & Consulting Services
Offered Deliverables
- Write up as to why a product infringes your claims, if it does, or why a product does NOT infringe your claims.¹
- Claim Chart to show why a product infringes your claim, if it does.¹
- Write up as to why the asserted prior art fails to teach your invention, if it does.¹
- Write up as to what you can probably still claim from your patent specification if you still have an open application.¹
Offered Hourly Services
At Miraje Consulting, I provide a range of patent education & consulting services.
- Researching claims for prior art.¹
- Examine "to be filed" patent claims for issues (scope, etc).¹
- Protecting the validity of a patent’s claims (if actually valid).¹
- Help with Settlement & Licensing of your IP.
- Analyzing a patent to determine the concept being taught.¹
- Suggesting additional independent and/or dependent claims and or patents, and why you would want them.¹
- Show you flaws in your existing patent claims (if any).¹
- Educate as to why you may not be able to get infringement on some and/or all products using your patent’s concept.¹
- Search for infringers of your patent(s).¹
- Validate that your claims are taught in the patent specification.¹
- Educate and/or help with creating claims that would cover the preferred embodiment, the accused products, and at the same time, avoid the prior art.¹
- Educate regarding the importance of a deposition.
- Give guidance on how to prepare for a deposition.
- Educate why giving a “royalty license” could be your doom.
- Educate regarding "system" claims.
- Educate why you may want to "break up" your system.
- Help respond to a patent examiner's claim rejections.
- Educate how to utilize claim rejections to your favor.
- Educate how to get better claims from the PTO.¹
- Educate that if several companies are believed to infringe your patent, who should you sue first and why.
- Educate as to why the Defendant’s lawyer will be putting “Confidential” on most of the documents they submit.
- Educate as to the pluses and minuses of sending a Demand Letter.
- Educate as to knowing who is "skilled in the art" and why it matters.
- Educate as to why not to expect much from the judge in your favor.
- Analyze your patent prosecution history to better understand the invention, to better defend the patent in a patent litigation.¹
- Analyze prior art patent(s) prosecution history(s) to better defend your patent(s) in a patent litigation.¹
- Educate as to the benefits of keeping an “open application” at the PTO.
- Evaluate if your product is infringing claims asserted against your product.
- Help potential inventors determine if they have an invention.¹
- Help inventors with getting claims that not only cover their embodiment, but also their invention.¹
- Educate and/or help how to avoid patent claims from being invalidated by prior art assertions.¹
- Educate as to the importance of how words/terms are defined in a “Markman,” and why this legal sham could easily kill your infringement case.
- Educate inventors as to the risk of getting a patent.
- Educate inventors as to the risk of not getting a patent.
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders understand the benefits of “dependent claims.”
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders understand why many of the technical expert reports contain misrepresentations and/or lies.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders as to what new claims to pursue.¹
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with “essential patent” assertions.
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders with the inherent weakness of their own patent prosecution attorney for helping to get new patents for them.
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders with the importance of a patent’s prosecution history.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with patent claim charts, and explain why errors in the claim charts have serious negative consequences.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with “standards compliance” arguments.
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders as to why “Marking” products covered by their patents is important.
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders as to why companies who take a license need to "Mark" their product* with your patent(s) number(s).
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with RFAs (Request for Admissions).
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with indefiniteness arguments.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with defendants myriad of misrepresentations of the prior art.¹
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with both intrinsic and extrinsic evidence.¹
- Educate why you want to get a lawyer to take your patent litigation case on contingency.
- Educate how to increase your chances to get a lawyer to take your case on contingency.
- Educate how to pay less money for a lawyer on contingency.
- Educate how to help your lawyer have better success with your patent case.
- Educate how to keep your expert(s) from hurting your case.
- Educate how to increase your odds of getting your claims through at the PTO.
- Educate what you should and should not do if you feel you have a “Standards Essential” patent.
- Educate as to what you can expect to deal with if you assert your patent(s) claim(s) against a product you believe infringes your claim(s).
- Educate and/or help you decide if you should use more than one law firm if you have multiple infringers. The pros and cons.
- Educate as to how much you should REALLY expect to pay for a patent litigation.
- Educate as to how much you should expect to collect from a patent litigation.
- Educate as to the devious nature of most, if not all expert reports from Defendants.
- Educate as to what kind of arguments are typical from defendants e.g., invalidity & inventorship, in patent litigation.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with RAND (Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) & FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) assertions.
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders as to the importance of “Smallest Saleable Unit” (SSA). (Associated with FRAND)
- Educate inventors and/or patent holders understand the myriad of pitfalls in the patent game e.g., the Federal Circuits ability to disregard the facts and law (e.g., Rule 36 > Judgment of Affirmance Without Opinion).
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with 1449 forms (for prior art asserted against you).
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders with patent reexams.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders understand the value of an "arm’s length" royalty agreement.
- Educate and/or help inventors and/or patent holders understand that if they do not provide real assistance to their litigation attorney, your odds of success in patent litigation are extremely low.
¹ Not offered in all patent cases.
NOTE: All Education and Consulting is based on experience, NOT based on having a law degree. I am not a lawyer.