Invalidation / Non-Infringement Contentions

Prometheus IP has hands-on experience in preparing claim charts for invalidation contentions. We prepare customized claim charts, which depict a comprehensive and relevant comparison table for each element of the claim with respect to the relevant prior art.

• Identifying the relevant excerpts from the prior art which anticipates the asserted patent or renders its obviousness criteria.
• Supporting patent attorneys by preparing ready to use claim charts for Invalidation Contentions.
• Techno legal expertise
• Knowledge in Patent law of different jurisdictions.

• Thorough technical understanding of the subject patent claims and detailed description.
• Detailed review of the subject patent bibliographic details and image file wrapper details.
• Detailed review of subject patent family members and prosecution details of family members.
• Detailed review of forward and backward citations of the subject patent and family members.
• Framing search strategies to uncover the prior-art based on keywords, assignee, inventors, citations (forward and backward), patent classification codes (US,CPC, IPC, ECLA and F terms).
• Handling IP/Non-IP queries utilizing the specialized databases.
• Detailed analysis of the search results describing the similarities and deviations.

• An Excel file depicting the claim chart with different sections of the potential publications disclosing the claim(s) subject to the invalidation contentions.
• Reporting format includes a quick analysis table and claim chart that would help to quickly understand the output of the search report with respect to invalidation contentions.