Sponsors

Awapatent
Website: www.awapatent.com

Awapatent is one of Europe's leading IP firms. For us, qualified IP advisory services are all about making products profitable for long periods. With 13 offices and 350 employees we are the European representative and a global player in Intellectual Property. Our turnover for 2008 amounted to approximately 40 million Euro. Awapatent is able to call on the services of approximately 170 IP attorneys. These are graduate engineers or lawyers with considerable experience of EPC, Community Trademark and Community Design issues. Many are also European Patent Attorneys authorised to act before the European Patent Office (EPO).

Evalueserve
Website: www.evalueserve.com

Evalueserve provides custom research and analytics services to a globally dispersed client base of Global 5000 companies, Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms, Law Firms, VC Firms, IP Advisory Firms, and Consulting Firms in the following areas - Intellectual Property, Market Research, Business Research, Financial and Investment Research, Experts for testimony and other advice, Data Analytics and Modelling and Knowledge Technology Services. We currently have 2,500 professionals in our research centres in Delhi-Gurgaon (India), Shanghai (China), Santiago-Valparaiso (Chile), and Cluj (Romania). Additionally, our 60 client engagement managers are located in all major technology, business, and financial centres globally.

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Website: www.finnegan.com

With 375 intellectual property lawyers, Finnegan is one of the largest IP law firms in the world. From offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, we work with leading corporations and innovators to protect, advocate, and leverage their most important IP assets. Our practice spans virtually every industry and technology. We handle all aspects of U.S. patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation. We also represent clients on IP issues related to international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, and unfair competition. For more information, please visit www.finnegan.com.

Swedish Patent and Registration Office
Website: www.prv.se
http://prvbloggen.se/

As a part of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, PRV InterPat provides a wide range of search and advisory services for technical ideas, trademarks and industrial designs. With more than 60 years of experience we support companies on a daily basis in a world of constant technological development.

PRV InterPat offer a wide range of consultancy services carried out by experienced patent examiners, information specialists and trademark and design examiners. They know how to search, analyse, integrate, process and present the facts that will support you when making important strategic business decisions.

Valipat®
Website: www.valipat.com

As European Patent Attorneys, GEVERS designed a user friendly and intuitive interface, for Patent Professionals, to decrease the ‘direct’ costs for validating European patents, and the ‘overhead’ costs.

GEVERS Validations offers a secure web-enabled interface Valipat® for the validation of European Patents. It enables a substantial decrease of your costs, while the translations and validation services are rendered by some of the best Patent Attorneys in Europe.

In short, a reduced budget for high quality validations with worldwide access 24/7 in a paperless environment: our experienced staff closely monitors all critical deadlines and is backed by more than 25 European Patent attorneys.

Questel
Website: www.questel.com

For over 30 years, Questel has been helping manage the world's most important IP portfolios. We offer a suite of leading-edge patent, trademark and design services to executives, researchers, and competitive intelligence professionals, and help turn their IP information into real value and enhance their organizations' competitiveness. Known for having one of the most comprehensive collections of databases, we also provide a wide array of tools for searching, analyzing, visualizing, evaluating, sharing results, and ordering.

Scope
Website: www.scopeknowledge.com

Scope eknowledge Center works on behalf of large corporate organizations (including a Fortune 10 and nine of the top 100 companies in the Uk), TNo, Thomson Scientific, the Epo, global law firms and several of the largest technology transfer companies in the world. We help our clients to enhance their Ip capabilities and achieve substantial cost savings, in the region of 40 to 50%. We work to the highest quality standards, with a quick turn-around time and at very competitive rates. Contact us to find out more about the benefits that you can achieve by working with us!

Chinese Patent Agent
Website: www.cpahkltd.com

Chinese Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd. is one of the oldest and largest IP firms in China, with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shenzheng, Shanghai, New York, Tokyo and Munich. The firm has 145 Chinese patent attorneys, 32 attorneys-at-law, 30 trademark attorneys, and more than 60 technical specialists. The firm focuses on prosecution and litigation of patents, trademarks and other IP rights. Since its founding in 1984, the firm has been engaged continuously on behalf of its clients in large quantities of patent and trademark prosecutions, and has represented the overseas clients in thousands of lawsuit cases against infringement of the IP rights.

Danish Patent and Trademark Office
Website: www.dkpto.org

Parthys Patent Eagle
Website: www.patenteagle.com

Parthys Patent Eagle understands the fundamentals of every assigned search, accumulates the information needed with accuracy and reconfigures them to generate a perfectly structured search report customized to the needs of our clientele.

We are a multi-disciplinary group of patent experts who perform patent searches; undertake claim mapping and patent landscape analysis. Our search reports have benefitted various Industries, Law Firms, Patent Brokers and Universities worldwide. Our report encompasses the search strategies used, patent classes referenced and databases covered along with most pertinent findings. We give uncompromised quality with complete and comprehensive knowledge for every assigned search.

We are reliable, resourceful and highly recommendable.

GSI Office Management GmbH
Website: www.gsi-office.de

GSI Office Management GmbH, with its self-developed WINPAT® software, is one of the leading suppliers of IP software and has specialized in the optimisation of business processes concerning the administration of patent and trade mark rights at patent law firms and the patent departments of industrial companies. With WINPAT®, GSI Office Management GmbH offers its clients one of the leading IP systems worldwide. This IP system optimally combines the advantages of a standard solution with those offered by individual software. And comprehensive services enhance the company’s portfolio. Due to the continuous development of WINPAT®  and the introduction of new branch solutions, the company’s leading market position in Europe will continue to expand. For more information see, www.gsi-office.de

Intellixir
Website: www.intellixir.com

INTELLIXIR is a company based in the southeastern France next to Aix-en-Provence.

INTELLIXIR System is a web application allowing its users to analyze references of patents and non-patent literature exported from commercial or private databases. Statistical measures are graphically represented through dynamic and interactive web pages.

INTELLIXIR System is used by large organizations, eager to transform the cost of structured information into a high valuable decision, involved in all science and technology industries: Cosmetic, pharmaceutical, medical, material, chemical, energy, mechanic… These organizations use our System for patentability studies, detection of emerging trends, identification of major players, looking for collaborations, or the development of dashboard for instance.

Dolcera
Website: www.dolcera.com

Dolcera is a leading information services and technology firm that helps companies quickly and effectively navigate through their entire innovation cycle to achieve successful business outcomes. The company’s mission is to facilitate collaborative knowledge management and sharing through the use of its Intellectual Property (IP), technology and market research services and advanced technology platform. Dolcera’s products and services are used by Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations across a wide variety of industries. The company is privately held and based in San Mateo, Calif. and Hyderabad, India.

Patrafee
IPR Renewal Management & Software Solutions
Website: www.patrafee.com

Putting administration and renewals of IPR in the hands of experts saves time and money, and gives greater security. Patrafee offers services and software to simplify demanding routine work related to patents, trademarks, designs and domain names. Our IP management software Patrawin comes in two versions; Patrawin Enterprise, which is customized to suit in house IP departments, and Patrawin Professional, developed for the specific needs of IP law firms.

Ipendo AB
Website: www.ipendo.com

Ipendo AB is one of the fastest growing companies within the international Intellectual Property field, focused on creating a global platform that connects people to communicate and collaborate on Intellectual Property matters in a standardized way.

Papst Licensing
Website: www.papstlicensing.com

Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG was established in 1992 by its president Georg Papst. In 1993 the patent licensing firm acquired the entire patent portfolio of Papst-Motoren GmbH & Co. KG, the company founded by Georg F. Papst’s father Hermann Papst, and set out to take active action against patent infringements on the international level. Papst Licensing built up an international network of experts for monetizing infringed patents and litigation experience, especially in the USA. Today, Papst Licensing has over 150 license agreements with virtually all renowned companies in the IT and electronics industry. Among the licensees are companies such as IBM, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, JVC, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Samsung, Hitachi, BenQ, Canon, Alcatel and Mitsubishi.

UBM TechInsights
Website: www.ubmtechinsights.com

UBM TechInsights is the preeminent firm for the provision of sophisticated information and advice to technology companies. Our foundation of technical expertise and analysis tools, combined with years of experience on all aspects of the IP / Technology Lifecycle allow us to deliver the highest ROI to the client. Our leadership position is sustained by our commitment to the upmost integrity, and the ongoing investment and acquisition of knowledge and capabilities necessary to meet our clients’ evolving needs. If you need assistance in managing your most complex technology or IP challenges, turn to UBM TechInsights for assured results. Visit www.ubmtechinsights.com.

Baker & McKenzie
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com

Baker & McKenzie has been global from our inception.

We offer an uncompromising commitment to excellence and a distinctive way of thinking, working and behaving as a passionately global and genuinely collaborative firm. We seamlessly combine an instinctively global perspective with the nuanced local insights of 3,900 locally qualified lawyers in 67 offices around the world. As a community of 60 nationalities, we have deep knowledge of the language and culture of business worldwide. We’ve cultivated the global mindset, commercial pragmatism and collaborative relationships that it takes to deliver consistently world-class service tailored to the preferences of our clients worldwide.