Florida Patent Attorney Addresses Adding Value to Patent Applications
In his Intellectual Property Counsel Blog post entitled " A Litmus Test to Identify Exceptional Patent Attorneys ", in-house Florida intellectual property attorney Todd Mayover provides a good overview of things that distinguish a " good patent attorney "from an "exceptional patent attorney ".
In particular, he writes:
Adding value to patents requires a complete understanding of an invention, knowledge of the current state of the field of art, the ability to identify how an invention fits in to the industry or market, and the ability to identify and distinguish the closest competitors.
I could not agree more with this statement but feel the need to question sometimes the way that in-house attorneys make their hiring decisions for patent prosecution work. Many times, outside counsel are chosen on the basis of firm and name partner reputations without any inquiry at all on who will actually be doing the work.
There is nothing wrong with this, of course, as long as the attorney and partners that were responsible for building a law firms reputation are the same ones that will work on your matter. If they are not the ones actually doing the work on a company's application, however, in-house intellectual property lawyers should question why they are paying for a senior partner's billing rates when a "wet behind the ears" new associate is actually the one doing the "heavy lifting" on the patent application draft.
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