Effectual Services

Your Patent and Paralegal Services Partner

Phone (India): +91-901-367-3286 Phone (US): +1-972-256-8133

Phone (UK): +44-203-286-8233

Web: www.effectualservices.com Email: info@effectualservices.com

http://www.effectualservices.com/ mailto:info@effectualservices.com

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About the firm

To be a leading service provider in the Intellectual Property

services domain by consistently delivering quality and value to

our clients

Effectual Services - Fact Sheet

Year Founded 2010

Employees 70 full time and access to 100+ Industry Experts/Consultants

Competence ~80 % Employees are Technical Graduates / Engineers

Academic Degrees PhD’s, Post graduates, Engineers and Law graduates from reputed Universities

and Colleges.

Major Clients IP and Patent law firms, Commercial law firms, Corporate clients, Universities, and

patent brokerage and licensing firms spread across four continents

Customer Satisfaction 95% of our business comes from client referrals and repeat business

Key advantages  One Stop Shop: Technical specialist for all major technical areas and providing

services in creation, management, and monetization of patents.

 Multi-lingual search capabilities including English, Japanese, Chinese, and

Korean languages.

Access to leading commercial and non-commercial patent database and tools,

research publications, and trade journals.

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About the firm – Insights

Started with just 3 people on board in the year 2010, Over the years, Effectual Services has grown into a team of 54

dedicated employees including 42 technical and legal experts. We all share a common objective, i.e. to provide global IP

community with reliable IP and Legal support services. This growth is attributed to the quality output we

deliver, combined with trust and loyalty of our clients.

We attract the best talent in India and provide an exciting and simulating work environment so that they realize their

true potential.

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Law degree - 11 Years of work experience. - Worked with more than 100 US and EP attorneys, with various law firms and corporations - Technology expertise: Mobile networks, data security, encryption, computer networks, and navigation and e- commerce applications.

- PhD. degree in Mobile & Wireless Communication. - 11 Years of work experience. - Prepared more than 300 Evidence of Use (EoU) charts and Executed more than 500 directed prosecution matters. - Technology expertise: Networking domain particularly in wireless communication (802 IEEE standards, LTE/3GPP specifications).

- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, and pursuing a Law degree. - 08 Years of work experience. - Worked with leading Patent Brokerage firms on IP Sale/Monetizing projects, involving evaluation of patent portfolio to select key patents. - Technology expertise: Petrochemical, Specialty Chemicals, lightweight alloys used in Aircraft and Automobiles.

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology Engineering. - 6 Years of work experience. - Conducted IP Licensing projects for Fortune 500 companies, involving market assessment studies. - Technology expertise: Wireless Communication, Business Methods, Semiconductors, Machine learning, Internet of Things, OCR and ICR technologies, RDBMS, Information Security.

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About the team – Insights

Almost 40 % of our Engineering staff holds post graduate degrees, including Master’s and PhDs.

Almost 72 % of our technical staff have a technical Background in Computer Science, Information Technology and

Electronics & Communication. We do have capabilities in other technical domains such as Biotechnology, Bio-Sciences

Pharmaceuticals, Chemistry etc.

Engineers 78%

Support 9%

Business Development

13%

Bachelor's 62%

Master's 36%

PhD's 2%

Pharma and Biotechnology

14% Chemical

5%

Computer Science

24%

Electronics & Communication

48%

Mechanical 7%

Medicinal Chemistry

2%

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Technology Expertise

LIFE SCIENCES ENGINEERING

Pharmaceuticals and Medicinal

Chemistry

Biotechnology

Food technologies

Bio-medical Devices

Electronics and Communication

Computer Science and IT

Electrical

Mechanical

Petrochemicals, Oil & Natural gas, and

Chemical technologies

Metallurgical sciences

FMCG

Engineering

Life sciences

Biotechnology

Pharmaceuticals and Medicinal

Chemistry Food

Technologies

Bio-medical Devices

Electronics and Communication

Computer Science and IT

Mechanical

Petrochemicals and Chemical technologies

Others

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Quality driven by Execution Experience

Quick availability of trained team and

Competitive Prices

Flexible and diverse Engagement Models

Quality Checks Skill Development

• Focused trainings on EP/US patent laws and service offerings

• Basic trainings on Patent Database tools, MS Excel etc.

• Focused trainings are undertaken based on client feedback / requirements.

• We encourage requestors to share specific training modules with the team members, as well as best practice examples and templates

Engagement Models

• We offer flexible engagement models tailored to suit the needs of organizations.

QC is performed by the project manager

Manager

QC

The analyst checks the work done himself Self QC

Analysts working on same projects check each other‘s results

Peer

Analyst

QC

Advantages

FTE

Lowest cost

Dedicated Team

On Demand

Fixed Cost

Need Based

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• Infringement Searches

• Prior Art searches

• Claim Mapping, charts

• Document / Source Code Review

• Contentions Review

• Identifying target companies

• Evidence of Use, Claim charts

• Licensing opportunities identification

• IP Brokerage / sale support

• IP Due Diligence, validity search

• File History Analysis

• Patent Landscape

• SWOT analysis

• Competitive Intelligence

• Patent Portfolio Tracking

• Technology watch and Newsletters

• Patent valuation Studies

• Patentability Searches

• Patent Application Drafting

• Patent filing – WIPO & India

• Patent Proofreading

• Office Action Response

• Directed Prosecution

• Freedom to Operate

• Patent Illustrations

Patent Prosecution

Support

Patent Analytics

Patent Litigation Support

Patent Licensing Support

Bio-sequence searching Probe / primer sequences Therapeutic peptide sequences  Vector sequences Mutated gene/protein sequences Analogous sequences for identifying corresponding mutation locations miRNA / siRNA sequences

Chemical structure searching Drugs

 Reaction buffer Detergents

Toothpastes

Rubber and plastics

Dyes

Fertilizers

Native Language Search services:

Japanese

Chinese

Korean

Other Specialized

Services

Service Spectrum – Patent Support

THINK and EXECUTE

with CUSTOMER

in mind

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IP Services: Distribution

The protection of Intellectual Property (IP) has

become an essential keystone, which

evaluates an organization’s go-to-market

strategy and business growth prospects.

Our pack of services enables our clients to

develop comprehensive IP protection and

enforcement plans and realize full potential of

their Intellectual Property assets. Ideation

Technology landscape

State-of-Art Analysis

Conception

Prior Art Search

Patentability Assessment

Competitor IP Watch

IP Protection

Patent Drafting

Office Action response

Commercialization

Freedom to Operate

Patent Valuation

IP Landscape

Due Diligence

In/Cross/Out Licensing Studies

Infringement

Infringement and Invalidity Studies

We provide a variety of Intellectual property Services at every stage during the lifecycle of a patent.

Drafting and Prosecution

Infrigement

Invalidation

Novelty/ Patentability

Landscape

Miscellaneous

Service Distribution

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We have access to industry’s leading patent and non patent databases including – Thomson Innovation, Total Patent (from

Lexis Nexis), Orbit (from Questel), IEEE,