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Legal Advantage's Blog
Inside Intellectual Property is a Legal Advantage blog dedicated to sharing IP ideas, tools, techniques and knowledge. Posts are written by experts in the field with insights gained from hands on experience.
Looking forward to 2010
by Legal Advantage
Last week, we conducted our annual meeting to review 2009 and unveil 2010 plans. Our teams from all of our offices joined us in pushing forward the new plans for 2010. But first, we celebrated our victories from 2009. This was a record year in terms of picking up new clients, reaching out to the IP community, prior art projects, and build out of our web capability. We grew our exciting partnership with law schools ( Temple University Beasley School of Law, Franklin & Pierce Law Center, and others). We also launched a series of Continuing Legal Education courses. Today most of our classes are accredited in over 35 states across the US. With over 5% of IP professionals attending these events so far, we believe that is the right partnership approach with the intellectual property community. We also launched our technical translation offerings for IP, opened offices in Toronto, rebuilt our website, and achieved global security certification, among other things. For our translation offering, we began serving our global clients by offering to assist their foreign filing in over 25 countries in 12 languages. 2010 brings new opportunities for us as we go deeper into our services. As the economy begins to show signs of life, we hope that you have been able to weather the storm and are in position to grow your business into 2010. For us at Legal Advantage this means a desire to reinvest with a purpose. We will launch a series of innovative new products that strengthen our core patent services. These products and services are aimed at solving critical issues for patent prosecution and litigation. Offering software is a new path for us but one that we are excited about. We are investing in a new tool that will change how patent drawings can be checked for quality and accuracy, eliminating the top 10 reasons drawings are objected by the USPTO. More details on this to come about this and other tools under work. We also have some ambitious new plans to expand into Europe and other parts of the US. Stay tuned for more announcements soon!
ABOUT LEGAL ADVANTAGE: Legal Advantage’s mission is “To help Inventors the World Over Protect Their Ideas and Realize Their Dreams.” For nine years Legal Advantage has assisted intellectual property attorneys, patent agents, and individual inventors in fulfilling this mission. Legal Advantage is a leader in Prior Art Searches (patentability, freedom to operate (FTO), clearance, validity, invalidity, infringement and landscape analysis), Patent Illustration (Patent Drawing) and Patent Design Services, document review, technical translations (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and over 20 other languages), patent trial graphics, and Legal research. The real benefits derived from these services include reduced costs, faster project completion, and a higher quality end-product deliverable. For more information please visit http://legaladvantage.net
Founded by seasoned intellectual property attorneys and litigators, Legal Advantage combines unparalleled dependability, accuracy, and client service - resulting in a stellar client retention rate that is among the highest in the industry.
Legal Advantage is headquartered in the Washington DC suburb of Bethesda, MD and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Hyderabad, Ottawa, and Toronto.