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Patent Search outsourcing to India
By siliconindia staff writer
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Tmpsearchers.com, which has been offering free patent search, free trademark search and free legal research services in India for more than one year will start offering Patent Search Outsourcing Services at a low cost from April 15, 2005.
Janaki Natarajan, President of Tmpsearchers.com said that the move was based on the request of several clients of their website who wanted to outsource prior patent search services.
Both legal research outsourcing and patent search outsourcing are increasingly being sent to India. Some of the high-end outsourcing works in the Intellectual Property law demand prior patent search, drafting and preparation of specifications and claims in patent applications.
Tmpsearchers.com employs attorneys and patent searchers who are trained by Western attorneys and are fluent in multiple databases like Westlaw, Lexis, STN, Delphion etc. These databases are available online for searching anywhere in the world.
In addition to offering patent Search outsourcing services, Tmpsearchers also arranges fixed cost patent filing services in India if so needed by their clients. But this is done only on specific request of a client.
A number of companies stretching from Korea to India to the Western Coast of the United States have utilized the free patent services of TMPsearchers and demand for these services is considerable. This is what is likely to see the emergence of India as a research hub of prior patent search, patent invalidity searches and Patent watch services in the near future.
Taking this aspect in to account, several Indian institutions have started offering specialized courses and the Central Government is also increasing funding to raise world class Universities in India.
Natarajan said that this trend is likely to increase and will result in the creation of several high end jobs in India while it will not diminish the jobs in western countries as talent pool available is very low all over the world.