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The patent landscape has become increasingly complex in recent years. Further to distinctive insight on matters of law, jurisprudence, and customary practice both in Israel and abroad, there is also an ongoing challenge of ensuring that our professional team’s level of knowledge and proficiency remains comprehensive, thorough, and up-to-date.
To achieve this goal, significant efforts are invested in acquiring and disseminating academic and practical knowledge through professional training courses, seminars, and lectures from local and international experts. These continuous efforts ensure comprehensive, professional service of the highest standards to meet the needs of every project.
Another benefit is the synergism of the patent attorneys of the group, who are experienced in a diverse spectrum of technical and scientific disciplines and work alongside legal professionals at Gilat, Bareket & Co., creating a unique and effective platform for maximizing returns on a client’s Intellectual Property assets by securing optimal protection.
Drafting and Filing Worldwide
We specialize in comprehensive patent services to protect your intellectual property on a global scale. Our expert teams are adept at drafting and filing patents across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring your innovations receive the robust protection they deserve. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and experience, we navigate the complexities of international patent law to provide you with a seamless and efficient process, guiding clients through the various stages of prosecution.
Preliminary Consultation and Opinions
Expert preliminary consultation and opinion services are available to guide you through the early stages of your patent journey. With our in-depth analysis and strategic insights, we help you assess the patentability of your inventions and understand the competitive landscape. Our experienced team provides tailored advice to optimize your intellectual property strategy, ensuring you make informed decisions.
Analyzing Patentability Issues
Analyzing patentability issues will help you determine the viability of your inventions. Our skilled professionals conduct thorough assessments, evaluating prior art and potential obstacles, to ensure your innovation stands a strong chance of being granted a patent. By identifying and addressing patentability concerns early on, we provide you with clear, strategic guidance to navigate the complexities of the patent process.
Structuring Search Strategies & Analyzing Results
Structuring comprehensive search strategies and analyzing results to bolster your patent applications. By leveraging advanced tools and methodologies, we conduct thorough searches to uncover relevant prior art and potential obstacles. Our expert team interprets these findings, providing you with detailed insights and actionable recommendations.
Freedom to Operate Evaluations (“FTO”)
Our professionals provide comprehensive Freedom to Operate (FTO) evaluations to ensure innovations can be safely brought to market. We conduct in-depth analyses of existing patents and potential infringement risks, offering you insights. By identifying obstacles early, we help you navigate the complexities with confidence.
Strategies for Filing Patent Applications
Our firm specializes in developing tailored strategies for filing patent applications, ensuring your intellectual property receives the strongest possible protection. Our expert teams work closely with you to understand your innovation and business goals, crafting a customized approach that maximizes the chances. By navigating the complexities and leveraging our extensive experience, we provide you with a clear, strategic roadmap.
Consultation on Potential Transactions
Consultation on potential transactions involving patents, providing you with the insights needed to make informed decisions. Whether you’re considering licensing, acquisition, or partnership opportunities, our experienced team evaluates the patent portfolios involved, identifies risks and opportunities, and delivers strategic advice tailored to your business objectives. By leveraging our deep understanding of patent and market dynamics, we help you navigate complex transactions with confidence.
Guidance Through Various Stages of Prosecution
Expert guidance through every stage of patent prosecution, ensuring your journey is smooth and efficient. Our professionals assist you in responding to office actions, navigating legal complexities, and optimizing your patent claims, with personalized support and strategic advice.
Unlock the full potential of your innovations with our expert IP protection services.
Contact usContentious Proceedings and Revocation of Patents
Handling contentious proceedings and revocation of patents, providing you with robust legal representation and strategic advice. Our experienced team is adept at navigating complex disputes, ensuring your patent rights are vigorously defended, and asserting claims against infringing parties.
To achieve this goal, significant efforts are invested in acquiring and disseminating academic and practical knowledge through professional training courses, seminars, and lectures from local and international experts. These continuous efforts ensure comprehensive, professional service of the highest standard to meet the needs of every project.
IP Due Diligence
Due Diligence is a comprehensive and in-depth investigation into the assets, financial status, and commercial capabilities of an enterprise or company, to determine whether the company or entrepreneur has real and business-value assets, to determine the value of these assets, and to determine the extent to which the venture is exposed to competitive risk.
Business Due Diligence is of crucial importance to an entrepreneur or investor looking into the possibility of investing in a company when a license is being purchased for the company’s technology, or before a company merges with another. Due Diligence is important, particularly for Intellectual Property, which, in most cases, lies at the heart of any business.
The scope of the Due Diligence and the issues it will cover depends on the technology and nature of the transaction. Reinhold Cohn professionals ensure that the Due Diligence complexity and scope are consistent with the client’s needs and goals in the transaction.
Due to Intellectual Property’s great value in the technological world, Due Diligence must provide all the important information on a company’s intangible assets. This knowledge enables to properly assess the parameters supporting the business plan, including the net worth of the company’s patents and the barriers they create for existing as well as potential competitors and other barriers such as unique and confidential know-how, etc.
Due Diligence for a company working with the Reinhold Cohn Group provides the investor with a reliable and up-to-date snapshot of the Intellectual Property asset value and the venture’s inherent risks, if any, in a way that benefits the decision-making process.
Patent Term Extension
The patent term extension (PTE) legal framework in Israel is complex. The PTE provisions, as part of the Israeli Patent Law of 1976, have been amended several times in the past decade. Consequently, PTE provisions lack clarity and at times create ambiguity in this field. The PTE provisions are implemented by the PTE Regulations, which were amended recently in 2017.
Israeli PTE orders are only available for pharmaceuticals that contain an active ingredient that was registered for the first time in the Israeli Pharmaceutical Registry. Israeli PTE orders are also available for medical devices if all applicable conditions are met.
One of the main complexities of the Israeli PTE regime is that the issuance of an Israeli PTE order is influenced, inter alia, by a drug’s marketing approval and the issuance of corresponding PTE and/or SPCs outside of Israel – namely, in the US and five European countries (Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, and France). In particular, if a marketing approval was issued for a drug in the US and/or one of the European countries, an Israeli PTE order will be issued only if a corresponding US PTE and/or SPC was issued as well. Furthermore, the duration of the Israeli PTE order is calculated based on the corresponding foreign PTEs and SPCs, and its expiry is influenced by the status of these international term extensions.
The Reinhold Cohn Group has extensive understanding and vast experience in all aspects of PTE, including preparation and examination of PTE applications, legal advice, litigation, and representation before various legal entities, which allows the Reinhold Cohn Group to analyze and examine each case in depth and provide the most suitable legal advice that allows the best interest of the pharmaceutical industry.
In addition, the close cooperation with the attorneys at law of Gilat, Bareket & Co. creates a unique and effective platform for offering top-quality services to every client.
Plant Breeder’s Rights
The Plant Breeders’ Rights department specializes in procedures linked to the protection of new plant varieties. The production of new plant varieties for agriculture and ornamentation and the trade in newly developed seeds and seedlings have become a prosperous economic branch in recent years, thus raising the importance of registering and defending these rights.
The department handles the registration of Plant Breeders’ Rights for new varieties in Israel and abroad, opposition proceedings to the registration of new varieties and rendering of opinions, including due diligence for companies that deal with new plant varieties in Israel and worldwide.
Another benefit is the synergism of the patent attorneys working alongside legal professionals at Gilat, Bareket & Co., creating a unique and effective platform for maximizing returns on a client’s intellectual property assets by securing optimal protection.
