Services

Webb + Co. provide all services required to convert your idea into a patent. Our patent department accompany the process from inception to completion.

Patent Drafting, filing and prosecution

The team of the Webb + Co. Patent Department provides patent drafting and prosecution services at the highest level. When drafting a patent application, we take into account the requirements for patentability in major patent offices around the world, particularly of the European and US patent offices.

We draft and file priority and corresponding national or international applications. The policy of Webb + Co. in preparing a priority patent application (either as a U.S. Provisional patent application or as a national application) is to provide the maximum support for the client’s invention at the priority filing date. This entails preparation of a detailed specification that fully discloses and claims the invention in an enabling manner. We continue with drafting and filing international (PCT) patent applications and filing corresponding national phase application worldwide.
We represent our clients directly in Israel and prosecute applications in any country worldwide through our extensive contacts with foreign attorney firms. We select the attorney firms and associates with whom we correspond to suit the needs of the client, and coordinate the prosecution of corresponding applications in all jurisdiction.

Patent search services

We devise search strategies and implement them for patentability evaluations, freedom to operate opinions and monitoring competitors’ patents.

Patentability Evaluations

Patentability evaluations involve the distinction of the new concept from the knowledge in the prior art. This may involve distinction over the inventor’s own earlier publications or those of competitors or even distinction in view of the general knowledge in the field. The first step of each project is to define search criteria. Designing a search requires knowledge of at least the following facts:
1) the final product
2) the components used in the product
3) the intended uses of the product
4) any relevant information that may be included on the label of the product; and if possible
5) the process of manufacture of the product and whether it will be performed in Israel or elsewhere
6) the source of individual components used in the process of manufacture.

Freedom to Operate Clearance Opinions

The grant of a patent does not ensure that the patentee has freedom to practice the invention. Practicing the invention requires that no third-party patents are infringed, which is termed “freedom to operate” or clearance.

Webb + Co. is one of the most experienced firms of Israeli patent attorneys in providing analysis of third-party patent rights. We advise our clients when and where clearance analyses should be conducted and devise suitable strategies for performing these types of analyses in relevant countries.
Litigation and Enforcement
In matters of litigation and enforcement we collaborate with Luthi + Co with whom we founded LUTHI+WEBB the Intellectual Property Group.

Webb + Co. provide comprehensive trademark services to meet your commercial needs. Our trademark and design department provide the following services:

Preliminary Stage

We perform a preliminary check of the desired trademark including considering and recommending the right classes of goods and services for the trademark application. We also conduct preliminary searches of Israeli and International trademark databases, to locate either identical or similar trademarks or trademark application, in order to reduce the chances for possible refusal and/or oppositions.

Filing applications for registration of Trademarks; Office Actions; Oppositions

We file applications for the registration of Trademarks in Israel and worldwide. We file applications for the registration of International Trademarks (through the WIPO-Madrid System) based on an Israeli trademark application or Israeli trademark registration, designating other contracting states that belong to the Madrid System; as well as applications for registration of Trademarks in individual countries around the world (through local associates, not through the WIPO- Madrid System).

After filing we respond to Office Actions and oppositions, acting directly in Israel and through local associates in other countries, and monitor the applications all the way through registration.

We represent foreign applicants in Israel including responding to Office Actions and Oppositions issued in relation to International Trademark Applications designating Israel.

Litigation and Enforcement

We prosecute and defend oppositions, revocations, and appeals in Israel and abroad through local associates.

Our services range from informal negotiations for settlement or co-existence agreements, to litigation. In matters of litigation and enforcement we collaborate with Luthi + Co with whom we founded LUTHI+WEBB the Intellectual Property Group.

Post-registration services

We handle Trademark maintenance including renewals, Declaration of use (where applicable), and the like.
We recording changes in name and address of owners, assignments and licenses.
All above services are offered for trademarks as well as for service-marks.

Industrial designs add commercial value to a product and increase its marketability. Webb + Co. trademark and design department provide the following services to protect your design:

Preliminary Stage

We perform preliminary check of the material to be filed with the application in order to reduce the chances for possible refusal, and recommend the right classification for the Design application.

We file applications for the registration of Designs in Israel, and in individual countries around the world (through local associates). After filing we respond to Office Actions directly in Israel and through local associates in other countries and monitor the application all the way through registration of the Design.

Litigation and Enforcement

Prosecuting revocations and appeals in Israel, and abroad through local associates.
In matters of litigation we collaborate with Luthi + Co with whom we founded LUTHI+WEBB the Intellectual Property Group.

Post-registration services

Attending to renewals, recording changes in name and address of owners, assignments and licenses.