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Flat World - Global advantage

Although law firms have traditionally outsourced services such as security, travel, and mail, the allure of Thomas Friedman's “flat world” has some law firms taking a hard look at whether to outsource other functions.

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IP Support

Reduce the cost of transaction services in your IP practice area by using the expertise of IDS. We provide personnel trained and managed by U.S.-based IP attorneys to assist you in reducing your resource requirements, time to meet deadlines, as well as cost.

Patent Services

The transactional services in applying for a patent, the process of determining patentability, and your R&D requirements from the patent department are demanding in terms of time, cost, and resources. We offer the following services to reduce your resource requirements, time to meet deadlines, as well as cost.

Patentability Search

We conduct novelty and non-obvious, classification-based searches on USPTO, EPO, Delphion, and Micropatent databases.

Technology landscaping

We provide comprehensive listing and reports, by chronology, area, and company.

Analyses and Reports

We offer infringement analysis and freedom to operate and invention disclosures.

Patent drafting

Our analysts provide support for claims requiring technical descriptions or drawings.

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