Dennemeyer & Associates' Frosecution" solution assists with global patent filing, as Steven Shape, Cary Levitt and Dr. Malte Kollner explain.
Increasing innovation and patenting activity at a global level suggests an ever-growing workload—a challenge for patent offices and patent practitioners. One response to this challenge is enhanced cooperation among the global patent offices, including systems promoting quality and efficiency.
Another response is a creative approach to patent preparation and filing initiatives, which has encouraged Dennemeyer to create a global patent filing process called Frosecution".
Earlier this year, Dennemeyer hosted IP conferences across the
US, where panelists discussed several ongoing initiatives aimed at
improving the efficiency of their global patent filings. These
discussions acknowledged that 2017 marked the tenth anniversary of
the IP5 co-operation between the world's five largest patent
offices. However, the panelists recognized that patent
practitioners and global patent offices must continue to adjust
their practices to manage and absorb an ever-increasing backlog of
patent applications and the growing cost of patent
procurement.
The panelists discussed how certain patent offices are seen as
being either too slow or not well suited for certain industrial
sectors subject to short innovation cycles. Examiners have to cope
with the emergence of multidisciplinary, new and potentially
disruptive technologies (eg, internet of things, artificial
intelligence, connectivity, big data and blockchain
technologies).
The cost of patent preparation, filing, grant and maintenance
continues to escalate. In response to that, patent offices strive
to adjust their procedures and enhance the quality of their
examination processes to better meet growing expectations regarding
predictability, cost-effectiveness and timeliness. The panelists
speculated that, in Frosecution", Dennemeyer has achieved a
practical, efficient and low-cost solution that patent offices
around the world envy. This article was posted in
the November / December 2018 World
Intellectual Property Review (WIPR).
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