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Our MissionOur goal is to assist our clients in monetizing their intellectual property. We strive not just to generate revenue, but to do so under the business and political constraints that may be imposed on our clients. For example, some clients are very litigation averse and we have solutions to eliminate or reduce the risk of litigation.Our HistoryCapital Legal Group was founded in 2006 by Mel Barnes, a former Partner at Manelli, Denison and Selter, PLLC and former in-house counsel. Mel Barnes also was a patent litigate at the firms of Howrey & Simon and Morgan Lewis & Bockius during the 1990s. Although Capital Legal Group started as a patent prosecution firm, the present contingency based practice was designed to assume the risk that clients normally assume and has been very well received. Our StrategyOur strategy is to provide the highest quality of legal services at a cost competitive price point. We accomplish this by hiring great, experienced lawyers and building efficiencies into the services we provide. As a paperless firm, for example, 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 filing 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 900 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.
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