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Capital Legal Group, LLC is located in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., and is 37 minutes from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). We are cost efficient and flexible, which allows us to provide competitively priced legal services and to customize the manner in which we provide services to our clients. Our location affords us the ability to personally meet with patent examiners to conduct examiner interviews. We have this found to be invaluable for successfully obtaining key patent protection for our clients and dealing with especially difficult cases.
Our goal is not to simply get our clients patents, but to get them patents with a scope that will add significant value to their businesses. We draft quality patent applications that are full and detailed in disclosure and then robustly pursue the desired patent scope through personal examiner interviews at the PTO and persuasively written replies.
As a paperless firm, Capital Legal Group electronically files all documents at the US PTO, which provides a number of benefits to our clients. First, we immediately receive confirmation of the filing, and for the filing of new applications, we immediately receive an application number. In other words, we know our clients get their fiiling date and are not reliant on couriers or postal mail. Second, our electronic filing reduces client expenses including filing fees, copying charges, and other expenses. For example, we have clients that submit thousands of pages of prior art (foreign and non-patent documents) to the PTO each month. By submitting them electronically, our client incurs no copying costs, which would be substantial.
We also employ an automated prior art management system (PAMS). As an example, for one client we categorized and entered over 500 prior art references into PAMS. Now, each time our client needs to submit prior art, our system automatically populates the 1449 forms with the prior art of the appropriate categories. This substantially reduces costs and helps ensure prior art is not inadvertently omitted thereby strengthening the client's patent portfolio.
In addition, not only can we provide reporting electronically, our clients can access their patent portfolio 24/7 - 365 days a year. Specifically, via our secure access docketing system our clients can securely view and download all documents filed with, and received from, the PTO. In addition, our clients can customize and generate reports detailing all of their cases at their convenience. Of course, many of our clients simply rely on us to provide them with all the information they need.
Finally,we have the flexibility to customize our practice to our clients' needs. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to discuss your needs.
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