“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
Israel IP Associates is composed of U.S.-born patent practitioners who now reside in Israel. All of us have worked for large Israeli patent firms, where we observed that many clients are fooled into thinking that paying high fees to a firm with lots of employees means good work is being done on their behalf. The impetus for forming IIPA was the belief that we can provide our clients with the best service possible, period, in the most cost-effective manner. In other words, we don’t aim to be the biggest, just the best. And we won’t bankrupt your company in the process.
We achieve this in several ways. First and foremost, we are all Ivy League-educated native English speakers with advanced scientific degrees. Each of us has been practicing for several years, and each of us has worked in industry as well as in private law firms. We are experienced not only in patent drafting and prosecution, but also in prior art searching and patentability, patent infringement and patent invalidity analysis, whether in the context of oppositions, litigation, due diligence, or other business dealings.
What this means for our clients is that we view their patent needs not in a vacuum, but in the context of their overall business. When we prepare patent applications, our goal is to obtain commercially meaningful patents for our clients. When we provide freedom to operate opinions or help our clients design around other’s patents, our focus is to ensure that our clients can bring what they believe will be a winning product to the marketplace.
No less importantly, in addition to being admitted to practice in Israel, all of IIPA’s principals are admitted to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. We keep abreast of developments in U.S. law through attendance at conferences, participation in on-line seminars and workshops, and regular blog reading.
Thus, unlike typical Israeli patent firms, we take the unique nature of U.S. patent practice into account from the start, in order to reduce application pendency, to increase the likelihood of our clients receiving commercially valuable patents, and to reduce or eliminate the high cost of working with U.S. associates.
Beyond the U.S. and Israel, we can manage our clients’ entire patent portfolios through our foreign associates. Our bills for foreign patent prosecution reflect only the actual work performed by us. For patent renewals, we recommend that clients engage the services of one of the large renewal companies, as this is usually significantly less expensive than working through individual agents.
Because we’re small, we can be flexible in our pricing structures. While our hourly billing rates are competitive with those of other Israeli patent practitioners, and far less than the rates charged by U.S.-based practitioners with comparable experience, we find that clients often prefer a fixed-fee per project arrangement.
If you think IIPA might be a good match for your company’s needs, please contact us by email, phone (972-8-936-0992 or 972-52-583-8618) or fax (972-8-936-6000).
Learn more about our professionals:
Moshe Van Dyke
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
Israel IP Associates is composed of U.S.-born patent practitioners who now reside in Israel. All of us have worked for large Israeli patent firms, where we observed that many clients are fooled into thinking that paying high fees to a firm with lots of employees means good work is being done on their behalf. The impetus for forming IIPA was the belief that we can provide our clients with the best service possible, period, in the most cost-effective manner. In other words, we don’t aim to be the biggest, just the best. And we won’t bankrupt your company in the process.
We achieve this in several ways. First and foremost, we are all Ivy League-educated native English speakers with advanced scientific degrees. Each of us has been practicing for several years, and each of us has worked in industry as well as in private law firms. We are experienced not only in patent drafting and prosecution, but also in prior art searching and patentability, patent infringement and patent invalidity analysis, whether in the context of oppositions, litigation, due diligence, or other business dealings.
What this means for our clients is that we view their patent needs not in a vacuum, but in the context of their overall business. When we prepare patent applications, our goal is to obtain commercially meaningful patents for our clients. When we provide freedom to operate opinions or help our clients design around other’s patents, our focus is to ensure that our clients can bring what they believe will be a winning product to the marketplace.
No less importantly, in addition to being admitted to practice in Israel, all of IIPA’s principals are admitted to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. We keep abreast of developments in U.S. law through attendance at conferences, participation in on-line seminars and workshops, and regular blog reading.
Thus, unlike typical Israeli patent firms, we take the unique nature of U.S. patent practice into account from the start, in order to reduce application pendency, to increase the likelihood of our clients receiving commercially valuable patents, and to reduce or eliminate the high cost of working with U.S. associates.
Beyond the U.S. and Israel, we can manage our clients’ entire patent portfolios through our foreign associates. Our bills for foreign patent prosecution reflect only the actual work performed by us. For patent renewals, we recommend that clients engage the services of one of the large renewal companies, as this is usually significantly less expensive than working through individual agents.
Because we’re small, we can be flexible in our pricing structures. While our hourly billing rates are competitive with those of other Israeli patent practitioners, and far less than the rates charged by U.S.-based practitioners with comparable experience, we find that clients often prefer a fixed-fee per project arrangement.
If you think IIPA might be a good match for your company’s needs, please contact us by email, phone (972-8-936-0992 or 972-52-583-8618) or fax (972-8-936-6000).
Learn more about our professionals:
