With years of experiences in intellectual property field, Beijing Joyshine Intellectual Property Agency's been cooperating with several foreign leading search firms, and acuqires advanced ideas, methods and tools. Joyshine is able to provide comprehensive, professional services in patent search and patent analysis ,including technical information retrieval, patent search, infringement search, invalidation search, and so on.

Technical Information Search:

1. Joyshine collects and compiles current publicly available technical information for a given technology, and then produces analysis reports to identify the level and trends in specific technical fields. Meanwhile, to avoid duplication of research, we track the frontiers of technology in this field, master the knowledge concerning the patented techonlogies which have entered the public domain, and discover the research and development direction of the main competitors.

2. Family Patent search: This service is to obtain information about the geographical scope of patent protection of a technology. According to the information, we determine the potential economic value of a technology in order to seize the initiative in negotiations and to avoid infringement risk in import and export trade.

3. Legal status search: The purpose of the search is to prove the validity of a particular patented technology and its exact technical content and access to a patented technology and the latest status of the legal changes, which can accurately confirm the protection contents and effectiveness of the current patent. 

Patentability search:

Before the patent application or the substantive examination, we determine whether the technology has a patentable perspective, and to make a search report based on the patent literature, patent literature search and information research, through a comprehensive analysis of the object of the novelty and inventive step. In addition, it is important to search before the substantive examination, foreign application, which need large costs. According to the retrieval analysis results, we can make specific plan to achieve the purpose of cost saving.

Infringement Search:

We provide search service (FTO) in new products or services, technologies under development or in the import and export trade of products, so as to avoid infringement.  On the other hand, the purpose of this service is when we accepted the allegations of infringement; we can deny the validity of the other patent through data collected by the self-defense search analysis. This search is also for Japan, the United States, Europe and other major countries.

Invalidation Search:

In the case of patents that have already been granted, we collect the invalidation data, which negate its novelty and creativity. The invalidation search is also for Japan, the United States, Europe and other foreign patent. In addition, according to the different needs of customers, we provide customer-made search services.