Re: Outsourcing patents to India

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On 4/01/04, RSU wrote:
> There has been a lot of press about outsourcing patent
> work (drafting and prosecution) to India and some other
> countries where engineers from top institutions will work
> for $10k a year. In fact many startups are seem to be
> telling their U.S. patent lawyers 'thanks, but no thanks'
> or 'don't even tell me about patent services -- I'll do it
> in India.' Is anyone else seeing this trend first hand.
> If someone is involved with it how is the quality (not
> that the courts or patent office care for non-
> biotechnology applications)? Also, should people in the
> U.S. bother getting patent prosecution experience anymore
> if this is the future?
>
> rsu

One point of clarification -- big companies like GE have
been outsourcing patent work in India for a while. However,
they have large in house patent capabilities to monitor the
patents written in India. So it may not be new to them.
What is new is that small companies with no patent expertise
in house are starting to do this. Are these companies
getting quality service being that many do not really
understand what patent quality means in terms of claims,
written description, enablement, best mode, etc. Thoughts?

Re: Outsourcing patents to India, 5/22/04, by Kibitzer.

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