Protecting a patent portfolio is an ongoing task. At Ropatent, we advise our clients to be diligent in appropriately safeguarding and maintaining secrecy, communicating their legal rights and, if necessary, defending their rights through legal action.

Our experts assist clients in building patent portfolios that serve their business goals; we conduct monitoring activities to make sure that third parties do not use our clients’ patents without authorization and they do not interfere.

We also advise clients about ways to make the best use of their existing patent portfolio, to maximize the efficiency of their R&D investment.

Our counselors and IP lawyers have representation rights before the European Patent Office. We use our expertise in conducting patent prosecution for the European market, considering commercial and development aspects, beyond the strictly legal procedures.
The European Patent Office accepts applications for European patents that can be granted for the 36 contracting states to the EPC.  Since July 2009, applicants have also the possibility to request the extension of the European patent to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

We can also file patent applications at the EPO under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, designing it in such way that it will comply with the EPO special requirements. This procedure involves a single application. This application, however, is later split, after the initial phase, into several national applications.