Patent Trade Mark Investigation Services | Private Investigator
Breach of Intellectual Property Rights? We Can Help You Investigate
Patents, trademarks, company name, logo, design of a product or your secret business idea are all intellectual properties of a company. When someone copies, misuses, copies, or violates your intellectual property, it is always better to conduct an investigation as early as possible to not only see what is going on but also to gather necessary evidence that will protect your case in the future.
We will be your eyes and ears and help you conduct investigations relating to the patent and trademark cases in question through discreet research, field investigation, surveillance, verification, and evidence gathering.
In the case when you have a suspicion that you’re being infringed on patents, misuse of trademarks, counterfeit goods, unauthorized manufacturing, impersonation of brand, or illegal distribution, we can help with these cases by getting relevant information.
What does a Patent & a Trademark investigation entails?
It is a thorough process of investigating the unauthorized copying, making, sale, or distribution of intellectual property protected by law.
In such situations, the hired private investigator will assist in establishing:
- Whether any business organization is utilizing your patented invention or product?
- Are there cases of a firm that is employing your registered trademark or logo?
- What are the locations where the counterfeit goods are supposed to be made or sold?
- Who are the suppliers/distributors of the illegal products?
- Are there instances of a rival using your brand identity without a legitimate reason for doing so?
- Are there unauthorized reproductions and reverse engineering of products?
- What type of business operations are questionable?
- Which evidence will be important for further legal steps?
The final aim is to get fact-based and legally justified investigative data that will help clients and their attorneys to build their cases efficiently.
The Services We Provide
Patent infringement investigation
For example, when a firm is manufacturing, selling, importing, or distributing a product that you think infringes your patent, then our investigation can be useful to you since it will help us to find out what type of activities are done and who the people responsible for such an act are.
Trademark infringement investigation
Our target is to carry out investigations into the supposed illegal use of:
- Business names
- Trademarks
- Logos
- Design of the products on the market
- Brand personalities
- Phrases or sayings
- Appearance of the goods
- Imitations of brands
Counterfeit Goods Detective Work
Counterfeit products not only result in revenue losses but also lead to a loss of customer trust and brand loyalty. Our detectives can assist you to track counterfeit products at the suspected sources: retail locations, distributors, suppliers, online sites, and local markets.
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Investigation
To safeguard your brand, it is important to detect businesses or people who may infringe your intellectual property rights. The investigation may consist of, among other things, undercover market research, site visits, competitor audits
Illicit Manufacturing Inspection
Do you think someone is manufacturing your patented/designated products without your permission? We are able to carry out subtle investigations in order to locate potential manufacturing sites, distribution centers, and commercial associations.
Supplier & Distributor Inquiry
We can check the authenticity of suppliers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and intermediaries who are involved in the flow of possibly pirated or counterfeit products.
Online Trademark and Brand Inquiry
Your trademarks or your brand may also be infringed by intellectual property violators at any time on the Web.
The intellectual property rights violation through Internet means can be detected via investigations which look into the public information available in relation to the questionable websites, online stores, marketplaces, social networking profiles, ads, and brand usage on digital channels.
Perspectives: Why Should You Go for a Private Investigator in IP Disputes?
IP conflicts usually involve business situations and supply chains which at first glance and without the help of experts are very complex.
A trained investigator will handle such an investigation as a third-party fact-gathering exercise which is quite impartial.
Our investigative strategy consists of:;
Subtlety: All our investigative processes are done in secrecy thus the whole operation is hardly noticed.
Determination: We work on verifying, for instance, a person’s identity or the genuineness of a premises, products, among the many things.
Evidences: We collect relevant information, organize our documents systematically, so that a review by the client, and possibly, if necessary, at least by the lawyers, can go on smoothly.
Investigation In-Field: At times, investigators may conduct physical checks and observations while being as discreet as possible.
Gathering Information: We will search for public company, commercial, marketplace, and business information to uncover investigative leads.
Target Market Patent & Trademark Investigation Services
We might have a good use of our services for:
- Patent owners
- Trademark owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Startups
- Manufacturers
- Brand owners
- Importers and exporters
- Corporate businesses
- E-commerce companies
- Law firms
- Intellectual property consultants
- Inventors
- Franchise businesses
Our Investigation Process
1. Private Discussion
You give an indication of the supposed violation, what is the intellectual property involved and the facts already known.
2. Plan the Investigatory Steps
We make a choice of how best to do the investigation on the basis of the goals, available facts, scope of the commission, and other considerations.
3. Checking Company’s background & Market
Business, corporate, commercial, and other publicly available information are scrutinized to see if leads to any suspect can be found.
4. Actual Verification at the Scene
If needed, investigators might go to locations to check if a business is there, manufacturing activity, retail operations, or distribution network.
5. Collection of Evidence
The information which is essential will be put in an investigation report with the documents which legally can support it.
6. Final Investigatory Report
Our summary is given in such a way that a lawyer and their client are able to take legal action accordingly and easily understand their next move.
What Evidence Can an Investigator Help Obtain?
It will depend on the nature of work and law that what kind of evidence is obtained by an investigation like-
- Differentiate Publicly Accessible Activities with Photos.
- Details related to the business and company
- Seeing the Products
- Retail and Market Intelligence
- Supplier/ Distributor contact details
- Verify locations
- Information on the web from a public domain
- Corporate Associations
- A set of investigative notes and reports
- A document of each step in the activities observed
It must not be overlooked that the information and evidence gathered through legal methods are important for an investigator. Whether a court would see it as admissible or not would, of course, rely on the area of the court and the condition of the case to a large extent.
Intellectual Property Patent & Trademark Investigating for Law Firms
Those firms that litigate on Intellectual Property cases generally have investigative backup either prior to or during the case itself.
Services of private investigators can be helpful if you want to:
- Search companies or individuals
- Validate the business operations of a commercial firm or individual
- Inquire the matters of the field covertly
- Track the suspected counterfeiting operations
- Pinpoint distributors as well as suppliers by a search
- Carry out the business or property investigation research only where it is acceptable and appropriate to do it
- The relevant details have to be put together on a documentary evidence format
- Detective evidence facts to be prepared as a factual back-up material that supports the legal procedures
Why Is It Best to Get the Investigation Services Done Professionally?
If the matter concerns a company’s Intellectual Property rights, it is best to leave no room for assumptions. A thorough investigation is a great idea if you are the business owner, the IP owner, and/or your attorney. This way, there is a possibility of turning a set of hypotheticals into real pieces of evidence that can be used and a strategy that has been planned and tested by the business or attorney.
We put a premium on confidentiality, accuracy, discretion, thorough research, and professional reporting.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is a patent infringement investigation?
A patent infringement investigation seeks to check if the manufacture, use, sale, import, distribution or commercialization of a patented invention or technology has been done without the permission of the owner.
Patent investigators are of great help in this context. With the right approach and method, you can pinpoint the companies, products, locations and commercial links that are the subjects or the sources of infringement.
2. Can a private investigator investigate trademark infringement?
Definitely. A private investigator can investigate suspected trademark infringement such as unauthorized use of trademarks, logos, brand names, packaging, etc. which are elements that identify a brand and that are the sole property of trademark owners. However, this kind of investigation must be undertaken in accordance with laws and regulations.
3. Can you investigate counterfeit products?
Yes. Counterfeit investigations might be necessary to locate the sellers, distributors, suppliers, manufacturing sources, and commercial locations that are publically identifiable and involved with suspected counterfeit products.
4. May investigators help to gather evidence for an ip matter?
Investigators will conduct an investigation and document their findings in a professional manner by using legitimate investigatory techniques. Whether that piece of evidence is acceptable in a court of law, you should have your lawyers and legal advisers to confirm it in accordance with the local rules and laws.
5. Can you investigate trademark infringement online?
Yes, an investigation may consist of browsing through websites which publish information about a brand, searching in online market places for products, looking at advertisements and brand related content found in social networks.
You can also use other digital media to find out any brand-related illegal behavior such as the unregulated use of a trademark or the exploitation of a brand in another language or form that does not belong to the trademark owner.
6. Who should hire a patent or trademark investigator?
When the misuse of a patent, trademark or a brand is suspected, it would be useful to have the investigative expertise of an industrial intelligence agency. Patent holders, trademark owners, companies, inventors, brand protection teams, entrepreneurs and law firms may all be potential customers of an IP investigation service.
Safeguard Your Brand. Discover the truth.
You are worried about a possible patent infringement, trademark misuse, counterfeit activity, unauthorized manufacture, or abuse by a third party of your brand? Don’t take for granted that what your gut feels is right.
We are an expert Investigation Service for Patents & Trademarks that can help you reveal essential facts through our professional investigation skills by finding evidence of a wrongdoing and confirming a wrongdoing by a third party.