A Top-Rated Patent Law Firm in Canada: PatentAxis Inc

Expertise in patent prosecution and analysis is acquired over decades of interactions with patent offices worldwide. For clients, understanding patents often present a sharp and challenging learning curve. PatentAxis Inc stands ready to provide services and support that allow its clients to embrace the patenting process. Clients receive guidance that allow for informed practical choices at critical decision points so as to realize opportunities and thrive within the patenting process.

PatentAxis provides core services of patent analysis, preparation, filing, and prosecution from its office located in downtown Toronto. The clients it serves are diverse, including for example individuals and businesses, private corporations and publicly funded organizations, and Canadian as well as non-Canadian entities.

For Canadian clients PatentAxis provides front line management and back line support to meet all patent related queries and initiatives. Open communication with clients is maintained to understand goals and objectives so as to align patent filing and prosecution strategy with each client’s overall business strategy. Factors such as a research and development cycle, commercial geography, manufacturing locations, competitor activity, and potential partner interests are just a few factors that can influence patent filing strategies and PatentAxis is dedicated to understanding and considering all factors to develop patent filing strategies that are optimized for each client’s needs.

For non-Canadian clients, patent services are most often focused on Canadian patent filings, prosecution and analysis. A typical non-Canadian client is a law firm located outside Canada that represents a non-Canadian applicant that has initially filed a patent application outside Canada and wishes to file a counterpart patent application in Canada and follow through with prosecution to patent grant. As with its Canadian clients, time is willingly provided to non-Canadian clients to understand business goals and objectives and to coordinate a patent prosecution strategy accordingly. The firm also stands ready to discuss eccentricities and advantages of the Canadian patent system with its non-Canadian clients so as to better incorporate a Canadian counterpart patent application within an overall International patenting strategy.

Every country has distinctions and nuances in their respective patent systems that can be navigated and exploited to not only maximize opportunities in individual countries, but also to confer efficiencies within an overall international patent filing and prosecution strategy. The firm’s clients benefit from access to a trusted stable of patent lawyers, attorneys and other patent specialists in various countries around the world that carry out patent prosecution under instructions from PatentAxis. The firm’s experience with international patenting strategies allows for cost efficient prosecution and leveraging of prosecution from one jurisdiction to another so as to maximize patenting budgets.

Understanding complexities of a patent strategy is challenging. For example, deciding to file a US provisional application, or deciding between filing an international patent application or filing in individual countries, are complex decisions that do not necessarily follow a simple rule of thumb that can be generically applied to all cases. Decisions may be further complicated by considering expected patent costs on a year-to-year basis. PatentAxis invests time to thoroughly discuss and explain patent filing strategies to its clients, as well as being accessible throughout patent prosecution to explain upcoming events and costs so that clients are able to anticipate costs and make educated decisions based on meetings to discuss implications of prosecution events.

Jai Chatterjee is a Director of PatentAxis Inc., and has over a decade of experience helping clients obtain patent protection for various technologies. His scientific background is in the health sciences having received a PhD in Biochemistry from McGill University. Early in his career his patent practice related to medical and biotechnology fields as a natural progression from his doctoral research, but over the years he has helped a great variety of clients having diverse technologies to the point that now discussions on most technologies are welcome.

Queried on the impact of receiving this distinction, Jai commented: “Inclusion within The Silicon Review watch-list is certainly a special event and PatentAxis Inc enthusiastically accepts this consideration and is honoured to keep company among the other named firms. The reputational value of this accolade cannot be overstated, and the firm is excited to leverage this recognition in its continuing efforts to recruit new clients and add new contacts to its global network of colleagues and associates.”