IP Enforcement Support

AiPi utilizes and blends resources from multiple communities, including science, engineering, industry, finance, and intellectual property, to provide a range of services relating to IP enforcement, such as in the contexts of post-grant proceedings in patent and trademark offices as well as IP infringement litigation in a variety of courts in North America, Europe and Asia. These diverse resources provide AiPi with the ability to offer many different types of IP enforcement support services that involve a combination of legal, technological, commercial, and financial elements. Because of the protracted nature of many IP enforcement related projects, we routinely form and assign teams of professionals, having backgrounds that are tailored to the issues involved in specific projects, in order to enhance workproduct quality, efficiency, and timeliness, and welcome our clients’ input in helping us to form those teams.

We offer a variety of support services to law firms and parties at all phases of post-grant proceedings and IP infringement litigation, including due diligence, discovery, motion filings, and court proceedings/trials. For example, AiPi supports due diligence efforts by providing validity, infringement, and other substantive technical analyses, and also conducts various types of corporate and commercial investigations including damages valuations. During discovery, we provide all levels of document management services, document review and mining services, and investigations into relevant corporate, commercial, legal, or financial issues, etc. AiPi also performs a variety of other services relevant to IP enforcement proceedings, such as supporting the preparation and filing of documents in relevant tribunals, researching various substantive and procedural issues, identifying experts and local counsel, and preparing exhibits for court proceedings. AiPi provides these services to help law firms and parties reduce costs and navigate the many challenges involved in post-grant proceedings and IP infringement litigation.

AiPi’s IP Enforcement Support services include:

 Due Diligence Support

AiPi provides due diligence support services to law firms and parties in the context of IP enforcement proceedings around the world. Combining teams of technical experts having extensive and varied scientific and engineering backgrounds with domestic IP advisors allows AiPi to provide validity, infringement, and other substantive technical analyses that are relevant to post-grant proceedings and IP infringement litigation. Some of these services are explained in detail herein with regard to searching and corresponding assessments, as well as IP analytics and commercialization. AiPi also routinely conducts various types of corporate investigations, such as to determine corporate activities in the context of jurisdictional determinations. Our resources also include teams of investigators trained to investigate commercial activities, such as to identify potentially infringing parties and products, estimated revenues generated from potentially infringing products, damages valuations, etc.

Discovery Support

AiPi utilizes and blends resources from multiple communities, including science, engineering, industry, finance, and intellectual property, to provide a range of services relating to the discovery phase of IP enforcement proceedings. For example, AiPi provides all levels of document management including services relevant to electronic discovery, placing documents in electronic format, organizing documents, categorizing documents, etc. Our resources also enable AiPi to perform an array of document review and mining services, such as services involving the identification of privileged documents, generation of privilege logs, interpretation of various types of data included in documents, and investigation of various other substantive and procedural issues.

Document Preparation Support and Research

AiPi utilizes and blends resources from multiple communities, including science, engineering, industry, finance, and intellectual property, to provide a range of services that support the preparation and filing of documents in relevant tribunals around the world. For example, AiPi’s multi-disciplinary teams support the preparation and filing of many types of motions and other documents during post-grant proceedings and IP infringement litigation. AiPi’s teams routinely research relevant procedural and substantive issues, assist in the drafting of documents, proofread documents for filing in various tribunals, check cites included in documents to be filed, etc. In addition, AiPi provides a variety of management services that are tailored to pursuing related proceedings in multiple jurisdictions, such as ensuring that documents filed include consistent positions, identification of inconsistent positions asserted by opposing parties, etc.

Expert Support

Our enormous resources in science, engineering, industry, and academia allow AiPi to offer a range of services relevant to subject matter and testifying experts retained to support IP enforcement proceedings around the world. For example, AiPi’s multi- disciplinary teams support the preparation and filing of documents relating to testifying experts, such as expert reports. We also perform research for identifying and retaining experts in any field including technology, intellectual property, commerce, damages, finance, etc.

Local Counsel Support

Our enormous resources allow AiPi to offer a range of services relevant to identifying and retaining local counsel to support IP enforcement proceedings around the world. For example, AiPi’s multi-disciplinary teams use their contacts and perform research to identifying and retain counsel appropriate for representing our clients in IP enforcement proceedings in any jurisdiction.

Court Proceedings and Trial Support

AiPi offers a range of services for supporting law firms and parties in court proceedings and trials, such as with regard to preparing exhibits. For example, we utilize our enormous and diverse resources, which include a variety of tools and software apps as well as illustration professionals who are knowledgeable of the rules and regulations of a variety of tribunals, to prepare accurate and relevant exhibits for use in IP enforcement proceedings. AiPi is adept at preparing many different types of exhibits, including illustrations, video demonstrations and animations, 3D models, and other presentation materials for use in post-grant proceedings and IP infringement litigations.