Patent protection: how to protect my invention ?

A patent application must be filed with an intellectual property office. After a patent granting procedure, in general, the granted patent provides an effective and exclusive protection for a time period of 20 years as calculated from the date of filing of the respective patent application, provided that renewal fees are regularly paid to the offices in accordance with the national legislation in those offices.

GEVERS will help you to file your patent application using the best possible strategy.

Furthermore, as long as an invention is kept secret, and reasonable measures are taken to keep it secret, and furthermore the technical invention is not detectable by reverse-engineering, it can be subject as a trade secret. However, a trade secret has its own ways of protection. See in our overview.

How we can help you and add value?

Proactive and strategy-driven drafting

Additional services

Filing strategy customized to your business needs

IP audit before renewals to align to business strategy

High quality drafting of your patent application is a crucial step which GEVERS patent attorneys take at heart. GEVERS patent attorneys do not only respond to your short-term needs, but work with you to leverage the full potential of your innovative developments in order to achieve an optimized and tailor-made IP protection, also in the long term. The same dedicated proactive approach is followed with regards to deliver proper filing strategy advice and strive for efficient patent prosecution globally.

We also ensure that all administrative aspects of your IP assets are managed in an efficient and transparent way.
Our interactive Client Portal allows our clients to consult their portfolio status at any point in time, and to execute portfolio management decisions in direct connection with GEVERS teams. We can perform audit services and examine your IP portfolio from an administrative and strategic perspective to ensure adequacy between your IP rights and your business structure and objectives. Such a process implies close dialogue between GEVERS and its clients to ensure accurate knowledge of the client’s strategy and awareness of economic and operational factors.

Where we make the difference

BUSINESS DRIVEN ADVICE

At GEVERS, we go beyond performing patent protection-related services. We strive for dynamic partnerships with our clients in order to define and implement appropriate innovation protection strategies while effectively managing various patent portfolios. The foregoing is especially accomplished throughout close dialogues with our clients, taking into account their respective business strategies.

FULL IP APPROACH

GEVERS integrates patent protection in a global strategy for maximizing protection. Whenever appropriate, we suggest alternative or additional protection through other intellectual property rights up to trade secret management.

COMPREHENSIVE VIEW

Through the extensive in-house expertise of the GEVERS group, we are able to cover all your needs related to patent rights acquisition, management, monetization and enforcement. Our patent specialists will closely collaborate with GEVERS colleagues specialized in Dispute Resolution, Contracting, Valuation and Valorization, to provide you a complete and coherent range of services.

We look forward to working with YOU

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Definition
Definition

What is a patent?

Watch
Watch

How to protect your freedom to practice against other patent applications?

Tax
Tax

How to optimise taxation on intellectual property rights?

Valorization
Valorization

How to optimise the financial value of my intellectual property?

Filing
Filing

How to protect my invention?

Detection & Search
Detection & Search

How do I identify an invention?
Is my invention patentable?

Valuation
Valuation

What’s the value of my intellectual property?

Contracting
Contracting

How to license my rights or close other agreements?

Disputes
Disputes

How to resolve a dispute?