When the patenting application has succeeded, the applicant receives a document that provides him or her exclusive rights to the invention for 20 years in the country where the rights have been granted.
This is only the first step. Unfortunately infringements occur on a daily basis. You need to know how to protect patent granted items without going to court.
You can protect patent granted items without spending millions on lawsuits. The first step is to notify the person or entity that an infringement took place through a letter. The tone should be friendly, but still convey a message that infringement will not be taken lightly.
To this effect the assistance of a lawyer firm should be sought. The idea of the letter is to obtain a meeting with the top level managers of the company and through negotiations either receive compensation or prevent them from further exploitation of your invention. Enough time should be given for a response.
Even though you may be certain that infringement did take place, you should avoid any judgments in the letter which may later be used against you. The best way is to imply the possibility of infringement to prevent counter action.
Do not enter into negotiations to protect patent grants without the assistance of a lawyer.
If the entity doesn’t acknowledge first attempts to establish contact, a direct call to the CEO for a meeting can be made.
Rather than discussing the issue directly and risking the possibility of tempers flying, make use of our skilled lawyers who have years of experience in ways to protect patent grants against continued infringements. |
