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Taking Professional Approach to Protect Your Brand, Patent & Other Property.

The development and maintenance of a patent, trademark, brand, logo, product design, or other intellectual property can be a long-term investment. If someone copies, misuse, counterfeiting or any form of infringing activity is taking place on your intellectual property then immediate investigation will help you get a real picture of the issue and then you will be able to take the best possible action.

Our services for Patent & Trademark Investigations suit companies, innovators, manufacturers, designers, legal persons along with brand owners, etc. who need discreet investigative assistance that is both efficient and effective.

Trademark misuse, counterfeit, patent, unauthorized business activities, investigations always aim at getting at a fact and gathering evidence as well as verifying, reporting, etc.

A Few Things to Know About Patent & Trademark Investigation Services

To find whether an individual or business might have been intellectual property users unilaterally, a patent trademark inquiry would gather facts that could point in any direction.

Expert private investigators can find out for example:

• The use of your trademark/logo/brand name
• Counterfeited products suspected
• Activities that could be a violation of patent rights.
• Manufacturing or spreading of things without authorization
• Creating or representing misleading brand
• People who are infringing on your right to sell/distribute.
• Misuse of intellectual property through the internet
• Who is running the business if there’s something suspicious
• Details about supply chain and distribution.
• Copies or material that might help your attorney or team handling.

However, you should be advised that investigation alone cannot settle the legal matter. Only patent or trademark cases where infringement has taken place can be legally resolved by a capable intellectual property lawyer so if your case is like this it is best to find one.

We Provide Patent & Trademark Investigation Services

Trademark Infringement Investigation

Would you like to check if a company uses your brand, logo, trademark as its identity or any other company similar to yours?

Our professionals secretly take the necessary steps to gather publicly available info, business activities, product listing locations, and so on to make your case valid.

Patent Infringement Investigation

Competitors that are manufacturing, selling or distribution products that are possibly violating your patent rights, investigations may find out commercial activities and the sources of information involved.

3. Counterfeit Good Inquiry

Counterfeit products not only threaten your profit and brand equity, but also the customers’ faith who may mistake a fake for the genuine one. Through investigations, the suspects can be identified as sellers, distributors, physical premises, online listings, or connections in the supply.chain.

4. Investigation to Protect the Brand

To safeguard your brand from being used without permission, you may watch commercial activities which look like an attempt at deception of the public, misleading branding, fake goods, and possibly unauthorized distributors.

5. Research about Trademark Violation Online

You can entrust us with conducting searches of websites, marketplaces, online stores, social media profiles & pages, business listings, web banners, and other internet pages, for any possible unlawful use of your brand or other trademarks.

6. Investigating Competitors and Businesses

If a dispute relating to the IP rights involves a rival company, then our work is to double-check the business credentials, business information, business connections and other pertinent facts.

7. Investigation on Trademark Abuse

Lack of proper authorization for using a registered or well-developed brand may lead to the customer bewilderment. This kind of misuse can be detected by us through checking different sources.

8. Gathering of Evidence & Paper Work

We sort out the investigative materials and arrange their presentation in the form of a detailed report. A such a document helps our clients to become familiar with all the facts. It can also serve as a material for discussion with legal representatives.

What Business or Individuals Would Benefit from Patent and Trademark Related Investigations?

Among potential consumers of our services are the patent holders, trademark holders, startups & entrepreneurial ventures, producers, vendors on the Web, holders of brands, creators of products, holders of franchises, divisions of the company’s law team, IP lawyers, companies engaged in importing and exporting, and the like.

Why Should Someone Hire a Detective to Deal with IP Disputes?

In most cases disputes involving IP rights may turn out to be a puzzle since there may be situations whereby the identity of the alleged infringer, the place of production of the goods, the method of their distribution or the actual business operations are all unclear.

By entrusting your matter to a detective who is professionally licensed, you will be enabled through the detective:

Locating, the detective will be able to help you in uncovering such companies or other bodies of commercial interest as relevant ones for the matter in dispute, such as businesses, vendors, etc.

Confirming, your detective will have access to the data and information which are available in open registers of companies and will be the one verifying such data for you.

Recording, The detective has the responsibility of keeping the public documentation of evidence and making a report of relevant activities observed.

Linking, If the parties to the matter in dispute are not yet identified, the detective may be tasked with figuring out such possible connection between them.

You receive a well-organized report that you can hand over to the attorney or your legal team for their review.

How We Conduct Our Investigations

Step 1: Confidential Discussion

We listen to your concerns relating to intellectual property, suspected activities, and your goals for the investigation.

Step 2: Planning for Investigation

On the basis of the specific patent, trademark, product, brand, or commercial concern, an investigation plan is created.

Step 3: Data & Background Gathering

Investigators check the legal and openly available information and trace the clues that may lead to the main issue.

Step 4: Field Investigation, if necessary

A discreet fieldwork investigation is done to confirm business processes of the suspect, his workplace, the availability of suspected products, or other important factors if such a step is required.

Step 5: Evidence Recording

Finds and observations are written down in a systematic way without violating any regulation or exceeding the investigation boundaries.

Step 6: Investigation Findings Report

You will receive a complete and organized presentation of the main results, observations, and the relevant documents.

Step 7: Lawyers’ Review

The investigator’s report is made available to the legal professionals or the attorney you work with, if you decide to take the company to the court.

In what situations is an investigation useful?

An investigation can be extremely useful in cases where there is a need to document different kinds of facts including:

• Business identity (e.g. business name, address)
• Availability of products
• Manufacture or sale of counterfeit items
• Trademark/logo misuse
• Advertising material or web page details
• Distribution channels
• Business partnership or connections
• Corporate details obtainable by the business owner
• Photos or other forms of authorized evidence recording
• Comments of the investigators
• Time of day, place of happening

The variety of the possible proofs is going to be dependent only on the nature of the case.

Why to Hire Professional Detective?

A skilled private detective can independently gather facts, remain loyal to the code of silence, and be law-abiding.

Our primary interests are facts, investigation discretion, proper documentation, and the right knowledge to act but not to guess.

You can get an accurate picture of the situation from the proper investigation, no matter what issue you’ve encountered a possible counterfeit business, a misuse of trademarks, or a commercial infringement. This can be very helpful and maybe the first step you need to take.

Get Patent and Trademark Investigation Assistance in 5 minutes!

Our experts can detect patent infringement, trademark misuse, and other IP issues, so that you are well prepared with all facts before the court case happens. The process of investigation starts with us taking confidentiality agreement in order to keep your interests protected at all times.

Call us today to speak with an expert about your case and to discuss the ways of conducting the investigation in a way that keeps you informed, but also does not compromise with the evidence.

We Offer Professional Investigative Services

If you are wondering about the way your patent is being used or about the use of a trademark belonging to your company on a product of another organization, we can help you out. We will find out the relevant facts, verify the allegations, and prepare your case for submission to the court in an organized way as well as to the legal team.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why should I get a patent and trademark infringement investigation?

The objective of carrying out such a patent and trademark misuse investigation is to identify the extent of misuse of a trademark and patent that is already known through some channels, or to find out a potential issue related to an infringement of the intellectual property.

2. Is it possible for a private investigator to establish a patent infringement?

In this case, a Private Investigator is the one who can get you evidence through the investigation in the form of documents and pictures. But a Legal Team or Court will be the one to assess whether the acts done by someone constitute legal infringement under the law.

3. Can you track counterfeiting of products?

It is a common task for us to check counterfeit products and the manufacturers who sell them. In most of these cases, the investigators will perform the physical check-up of these fake items, as well as get the seller addresses and so on.

4. What if the trademark misuse happens online?

Of course we will have to look at the website, marketplace, social media, online advertisements, business listings of a suspected trademark misuse in detail before we could present the evidence to the right people at the end.

5. Will my investigation remain confidential?

We take privacy seriously and make sure investigations happen in a secluded manner unless it violates legal requirements, professional conduct rules, or our contractual agreement with you.

6. What information should I provide before starting an investigation?

The kinds of information that will be helpful include the intellectual-property details, brand or product descriptions, suspect infringer’s details, websites or stores, known distributors, digital captures, pictures of products, and everything else that you might have.

7. Can investigation findings be provided to my lawyer?

Definitely. It is our pleasure to deliver investigation reports and all supporting materials in a format suitable for legal analysis by your lawyer or team.

8. How quickly can a patent or trademark investigation begin?

To get an accurate estimate the investigation must be analyzed considering the difficulty, country, objectives, scope, and availability of relevant information. Talking over our experience might lead us to figuring out a plan which you are happy with and the corresponding period of time.

Reach us for a Hidden Intellectual Property (Patent & Trademark) Check-up

Is there a misuse of your trademark? Counterfeits? Unsanctioned use of your brand? Infringement of a patent?

We invite a qualified investigator to discuss your case and help you figure out your options from investigating.

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We carry out all types of investigations in harmony with laws on privacy, IP, evidence, and other important areas. Results of a case will not be taken as a law opinion or a judgment in a legal dispute.