Patent to Standard mapping is an important piece of information during licensing deals between parties.

The patent’s value and positioning enhance drastically when the patent is determined as essential to a technical standard. Our patent to standard mapping service includes a comprehensive analysis of technical standards and claims of the patent to determine overlap between them.

Our team consists of senior technical and IP experts in multiple technology domains, who carefully read patent claims and map them to relative technical standards like IEEE, 3GPP, RFC, ITU-T, SEMI, ANSI, IEC, ISO, ETSI, etc., as per client requirements. Our reports are intuitive, easy to use, and is customized for easy viewing of the clients.

We also provide reports on the essentiality of patents for a given standard depending on the nature of overlap between claims of the patent and the standard. Based on the client’s request, we also provide directed prosecution service during the prosecution stage of patent applications to make amendments in claims of pending applications such that the allowed claims map onto the existing technology standards.

When clients are approached for licensing or dragged into a lawsuit by its competitor (asserter) to license competitor patents, we support our clients with counter assertion strategies. We study the claim charts or documents provided by the competitor, perform a deep analysis of the validity of such claim charts, and prepare counter assertion materials to help our clients negotiate with the asserter. Our Patent Counter Assertion service helps clients in patent litigation via a comprehensive study of the asserter’s products to mine patents from the defendant’s portfolio and provide claim chart mappings to support such findings.

E-discovery relates to the process of searching, gathering, and organizing the electronically stored information from all the parties involved in a lawsuit with the intention of utilizing such information as evidence in the lawsuit. The types of information included in the E-discovery process are IM messages, email messages, websites, documents in electronic formats such as PDF formats and MS word documents, computer logs, records etc. We, at Epiphany understand the client’s requirements related to the lawsuit and analyze the pool of documents provided by the client for filtering out the documents relevant for litigation. The filtered documents are thereafter categorized into sub-domains and technologies for subsequent use in lawsuit proceedings.