Securing, Defending, and Sustaining Your Patents - Every Step of the Way
Our team prepares complete filing packages, including all required forms and supporting documentation, while ensuring compliance with jurisdiction-specific requirements. This helps reduce office actions, avoid filing errors, and accelerate prosecution.
Our semi-automated Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) process ensures accurate preparation, timely filing, and efficient management of references across related patent family members, helping you meet USPTO disclosure requirements with confidence.
We prepare attorney-ready shell responses by organizing examiner objections, formatting headers and footers, and completing procedural details, allowing attorneys to focus exclusively on legal and technical arguments.
We review and verify critical IP data—including filing details, bibliographic information, priority claims, maintenance information, and docketing records—to identify and correct inaccuracies before they lead to costly consequences.
Whether it's data migration, file opening, backlog clearance, holiday coverage, or other project-based requirements, our experienced team provides scalable support that allows your internal staff to focus on strategic work.
Prior to issue fee payment, we conduct a comprehensive review of the prosecution history to verify bibliographic information, inventor details, attorney information, and compliance requirements, helping prevent post-issuance corrections.
We compare all IP data maintained in your IP Management System (IPMS) against official Patent Office records. Any discrepancies are identified and corrected to ensure your records remain accurate and current.
No. We provide data verification services for both patent and trademark portfolios.
We work through our trusted global agent network, which provides cost-effective verification services. We are also happy to coordinate with a client's preferred foreign associates when requested.
We verify bibliographic information, personnel records, inventor details, upcoming docketing deadlines, and renewal due dates.
We prepare all required filing documents, including Application Data Sheets (ADS), specifications, assignments, recordation documents, oaths, declarations, and other jurisdiction-specific forms.
Yes. We prepare and file applications before the USPTO and also support filings with PCT and EPO authorities.
Our standard turnaround time is 3–4 business days. For urgent matters, same-day preparation and filing can also be accommodated.
We execute client-preferred Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) before every engagement. All employees are bound by confidentiality agreements, and data access is restricted on a need-to-know basis.
We prepare IDS submissions upon client request, during initial filing, before Office Action responses, and as supplemental IDS filings whenever required during prosecution.
Our standard turnaround time is four business days, with expedited service available for urgent requests.
Not necessarily. We can retrieve publicly available references and procure paid references upon client authorization.
Yes. We use our proprietary Citation Matrix to map patent family members and references, while also working with client-provided IDS and reference management platforms.
No. We prepare attorney-ready shell responses by organizing procedural content, examiner objections, and administrative details, leaving the legal and technical arguments for the attorney.
Yes. We download examiner-cited references and can obtain paid references upon client approval.
Special projects include work outside routine paralegal support, such as data migration, file history downloads, reference entry, file opening, backlog clearance, and similar assignments.
Projects may be billed on an hourly basis or as a fixed-cost engagement following a detailed effort assessment.
Projects are handled by experienced paralegals and legal administrative professionals selected according to their expertise and relevant experience.
We conduct post-allowance reviews before issue fee payment, verifying prosecution history, bibliographic information, inventor details, attorney information, and overall file accuracy.
Yes. Our drafting team can prepare new drawings or revise existing patent illustrations at any stage of prosecution.
Absolutely. We tailor both our workflows and reporting formats to meet each client's operational and compliance requirements.
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Draft n Craft delivers the support you need to safeguard and grow your IP assets.