Patents

Patents

Are you an inventor or a company that's creating new functional products, systems or processes?

We offer a range of services related to patents including:

  • advice and education - why and if you should apply for a patent, what you can and can't patent
  • searching - we can search for existing patents to help determine if your invention is patentable OR find patents that you may infringe through use of your product or service.
  • filing - we can file patent applications for you and manage all aspects of the patenting process
  • prosecution - once an application is filed it is possible objections are raised by the patent office. We can respond to overcome the objections and get the patent granted.
  • renewals - patents need to be renewed and maintained to remain in force, we can monitor and do this for you.
  • international - we can file international patent applications (PCT) or manage filing of applications in any jurisdiction around the world

See our knowledge base articles to learn more about patents.

We have used Ipiphany for all of our Patent and Design registrations since 2008. They are very reliable, cost efficient and helpful whenever we have a question. They provide an excellent service for filing and reviewing patent information.

Some of our patents have been licensed internationally and without a professional and well drafted patent we would have had our IP stolen/ripped off by large multinationals on more than one occasion. We have had a lot of large well-funded European based competitors go over our patents looking for holes, as of writing they have not succeeded. In more than one occasion this has lead to a license or a distribution deal with these same multinationals.

Ipiphany took the time to fully understand and consult with us in detail to make sure the critical elements of the patent wording was as good as we could possible get it. They even came out to see one of our more complicated products working on site to better understand what was required. You won’t get a corporate Patent attorney out of their office to truly get their hands dirty and understand your requirements.

Ipiphany help us to formulate and play out various IP strategies for the different products we have in progress at anyone time. This, in our view, is one of their greatest strengths. They won’t just blindly write a patent for no reason, they will acid test if a patent is the most appropriate IP strategy for the product in question. Sometimes it is not and patents can end up being very expensive so this approach helps us to guide the business model for each product.

With Ipiphany we feel that our IP is in a safe pair of hands, this has been acid tested internationally over and over again.

For our business we have no reason to go elsewhere.

Marcus Wickham

https://www.klima.co.nz/