We are highly experienced in drafting high quality medical device patents for clients seeking strong protection for their innovative medical devices. Medical device IP law covers a wide range of specialized innovations, including prosthetics, aesthetics, dental devices, diabetes, pulmonology, cardiac rhythm management, healthcare information technology and healthcare electronics applications, neurovascular, ENT, diagnostic, monitoring and imaging devices, infusion pumps, oncology, robotics, surgical equipments, sleep apnea, dermatology, glucose monitoring and insulin infusion.
Case Study – Diagnostic Equipments
Our client, a leading company in medical- technology, diagnostic equipment and industrial design has been expanding all over the world through its network sales of medical devices, including Spirometers, portable systems for the analysis of respiratory function and nutrition, and systems for the execution of cardiopulmonary exercise testing for metabolism and body composition. The client further plans to enter fitness and private dietetics sectors to capture the market to great extent.
Medical Device Patent Portfolio
We advised clients to create a combined portfolio of patents, trademarks, designs as well as copyrights. We ensured appropriate IP protection required for investing in researches and designing of the products. As per specific advisory, the brand names were registered under the trademark law as a wordmark (Madrid Protocol), while the software source code was protected under copyright. Simultaneously, the innovative processes and the products involved were patented as utility patents with set of strong patent claims. We further advised the client to ensure full compliance with medical device regulatory certification and quality checks.
Medical Device Patents
We drafted and filed valuable medical device patents for the client to provide strategic business advantages, including:
(i) Gain in company reputation and value by maintaining a strong patent portfolio.
(ii) Patented products gaining value, symbolizing good quality and strengthening reliability of the products, thereby resulting in good market and competitive advantage for the client.
(iii) Establishing client’s brand name and recognition
(iv) Strategic and competitive advantage at public bids
Patent Strategy
We advised client to develop a progressive patent strategy by maintaining strong patent portfolio and acquiring small companies valued by its patents and products. We further established strategic and business agreements for the Client with other companies and institutions, as both supplier and customer. We are continuously involved in careful patent portfolio management to ensure that the upcoming medical device inventions are properly disclosed, with a view to draft and prosecute patents, and to interact with patent authorities worldwide via our network of patent attorneys and patent law firms.
Medical Device Patents in India
Our team possesses patent expertise to cater global medical device companies in India and as medical devices patent attorneys, we share comprehensive legal and technical know-how with the clients to start and identify inventive features of a medical devices and successfully register the patents before the patent office.
Most of our medical devices patent attorneys come from a strong technical background of research and development in the medical devices field and we have a medical doctor cum lawyer in our team. They hold advanced degrees in medical engineering and have worked on wide range of medical patents.
We know that many med-tech based companies want to patent their unique medical devices. Our medical device patent practice support doctors and medical device manufacturing companies to protect their invention in India and internationally. Our international patent expertise can help you to attain your goals in global markets.
Patent attorney Rahul Dev is recognized as one of the IP leaders in providing legal and patent law opinion, patentability opinions and business advice to medical device technology and startup companies at all stages of research and development. Our broad area of patent practice has helped clients across the globe to protect their research by way of filing patents.
Our team of patent agents and scientific advisors in the medical device group can assist you with protecting and understanding your invention to solve a specific problem prevailing in the same domain. Most of our team members have an advanced technical degree in engineering, physics, optics, computer science and bio-chemistry. Our team of patent attorneys work with global clients on all IP aspects of the patent practice, including assisting in the evaluation of invention disclosure forms, writing patent applications, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, performing third party patentability searches, conducting patent due diligence on behalf of venture capitalist, investors and representing companies during intellectual property due diligence.
Granted Patents in India
Companies that own patents in India include, ICHOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC, a biotechnology company, that engages in the field of clinical application and commercialization of electroporation-mediated DNA drug delivery systems, TEVA MEDICAL LTD, a part of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. which is one of the world’s largest generic and proprietary branded companies.
Medical Syringe Patents in India
Medical device invention titled “A NON REUSABLE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE” was granted a patent by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) to TRIBHUVANSIMH AMRITLAL RATHOD on 13/07/2012. The patent application was filed on 18/02/2008 bearing patent application number 407/CHE/2008 before the Indian Patent Office.
Field of invention identified by the patent examiner relates to field of MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. The identified IPC for the invention is A61M5/00.
A non-reusable hypodermic syringe includes a cylinder and a plunger reciprocating mounted within the cylinder; a first circumferential ridge on the inner wall, of the cylinder and a second circumferential ridge on the outer wall of the plunger the second ridge having a larger circumference than that of the first ridge. The stem of the plunger being made of an elastic material provided with a slot, such that when the plunger is pushed in the cylinder, the ridges on the cylinder and on the plunger butt against each other while simultaneously the slotted portion of the stem gets resiliently compressed to allow the ridges to ride over each other and thus allow the stem to pass through into the top portion of the cylinder for administering the injection the stem however being restrained from retracting by reason of the ridges fouling with each oilier such that the stem breaks off on forcible withdrawal from the cylinder.
Medical device apparatus invention titled “APPARATUS FOR THE INTRACELLULAR DELIVERY OF A THERAPEUTIC AGENT TO A PREDETERMINED SITE WITHIN THE TISSUE OF A PATIENT” was granted a patent by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) to ICHOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC on 18/04/2014. The patent application was filed on 28/09/2006 bearing patent application number 2835/KOLNP/2006 before the Indian Patent Office.
Field of invention identified by the patent examiner relates to field of BIO-MEDICAL ENGINEERING. The identified IPC for the invention is A61N-1/32.
The invention relates to an apparatus for the delivery of an electrical field which facilitates the intracellular delivery of a therapeutic agent within the tissue of a patient is disclosed. The apparatus consists of a main unit which is the applicator 100 and a separable single use sub-assembly (cartridge) 200 configured to include a reservoir operatively connected to an orifice. The reservoir and orifice are comprised of a syringe connected to a hollow injection needle 30.
Patent Research Services
Law Office of Patent Attorney Rahul Dev provides the highest quality patent research services to assist clients in complex patent prosecution and patent litigation oriented projects, which are customized to the specific needs.
Patent Validity Search
We provide patent validation / invalidation searches to determine the strength of a patent and to evaluate various elements of a patent portfolio. Our patent validation searches are aimed at providing competitive intelligence to the clients for developing corporate patent valuation strategies.
While conducting patent validation or patent invalidation searches, our goal is to determine the enforceability of an issued patent, wherein patent claims are compared with prior art references published before the priority date of the concerned patent. In addition, a patent claim chart is prepared to illustrate the relationship between cited prior art and the most important claimed elements. For relevant patent search results, legal status information for each of the cited references is also included.
Law Office of Patent Attorney Rahul Dev offers high value software patent drafting and patent due diligence services to clients by using proprietary and efficiently proven process along with a fixed fee costs, for performing comprehensive patent investigations and providing clients with strong patent reports for decision making.
We provide comprehensive Patent and Trademark legal services via our global network to create valuable patent portfolios and resolve complex patent disputes by providing patent litigation support services.
Our team of advanced patent attorneys assists clients with patent searches, drafting patent applications, and patent (intellectual property) agreements, including licensing and non-disclosure agreements.
Advocate Rahul Dev is a Patent Attorney & International Business Lawyer practicing Technology, Intellectual Property & Corporate Laws. He is reachable at rd (at) patentbusinesslawyer (dot) com & @rdpatentlawyer on Twitter.
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