Re: Outsourcing patents to India

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This is very true that technology and scientific
research is for a decade being dominated by the western
knowledge workers the time when poor asians didn't had a bit
to to fire their engines James Watt fired his stream engines
and jet its jet combustion engine. The time has changed now
Indian at this point of time has highest no. of technical and
engineering minds in the world , i really will not be
surprised if time will come when India will document the
complete technological jargons and leading researches for the
world so you can find the scientific Guttengurg is coming up
here, which will feed the patent offices around the world.
But at the same moment you can imagine the downtrodden
condition of Indian research as best of best minds in India
will be working like inttelectual labours for the western
scientist , this contry will be very soon having mirids of
technical papers but unfortunately without technology to
sell.And hence what the international regularatory affairs
and high end tech. generator are concerned india will only
have papers to sell. the economy of india in the future will
be dependant on the papers and ink.

On 4/01/04, rsu wrote:
> 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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