Renewal services
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Patent Renewals
Innovative ideas must be protected. We ensure timely payment for your patents, designs, and utility models by delivering a highly-automated process. Ease the management of your IP portfolio.
Innovative ideas must be protected. We ensure timely payment for your patents, designs, and utility models by delivering a highly-automated process. Ease the management of your IP portfolio.
Trademark Renewals
Trademarks are integral to a company’s identity. We ensure their maintenance at all times by filing renewal and affidavit applications per your instructions.
Trademarks are integral to a company’s identity. We ensure their maintenance at all times by filing renewal and affidavit applications per your instructions.
Patent Renewals offer
Feeling pressure to keep up with your organization's patent maintenance fees? With our service, we can ease the management of your IP portfolio.
Feeling pressure to keep up with your organization's patent maintenance fees? With our service, we can ease the management of your IP portfolio.
Trademark Renewals offer
Get rid of the administrative burden and extra costs of maintaining trademarks by letting Dennemeyer oversee every aspect of the renewal process.
Get rid of the administrative burden and extra costs of maintaining trademarks by letting Dennemeyer oversee every aspect of the renewal process.
The paperwork generated during the patent application process is one of the highest in all Intellectual Property-related processes. Going through patent prosecution, dealing with deadlines, documents, forms and statements adds up to a very complex and cumbersome process. If not done properly, the cost is patent application rejection. Dennemeyer’s IP Support Services are the best way to ensure the positive outcome of your patent application.
Businesses
Trusted payments for all enterprises
Use cases
Examples of IP Maintenance support
Onboarding process
Straightforward, quick onboarding of new customers
Payment instructions
Entering renewal instructions directly online and avoiding unnecessary emails
Software and data exchange
We can work with third-party IMPSs to establish data exchange
General renewal process, payments
Example of the patent renewal process
Providing renewal documents
Renewal documents can be sent via email or directly via the interface
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The customer is an internationally operating company
- Maintains a diversified IP portfolio of ~10,000 records (patents, trademarks)
- The customer has to make renewal payments on a global scale, in roughly 140 different jurisdictions
- The customer consulted with Dennemeyer to take over the maintenance of the portfolio to ensure timely payments, ease administrative burden and allow a focus on core business activities
Approach
- Dennemeyer consults with the customer to establish the best process
- Where are the company’s main weaknesses? Where can Dennemeyer support best?
- How can Dennemeyer relieve the customer from administrative burdens?
- Customized service offered
- Contract is concluded
- First review of portfolio data
- Data integration via information exchange
- Free-of-charge plausibility checks with a report to the customer
- First renewal notices are sent to the customer
- The customer decides on renewals and gives instructions
- The renewal process starts: Dennemeyer makes respective payments and reports to the customer
Results & Benefits
- Easy account set up for the customer
- Maintenance of entire portfolio (patents, designs and trademarks) with one dedicated service provider
- Setup of data exchange for ongoing portfolio updates
- Upfront data checks
- Data validation available
- Taking over administrative work from the client within the renewal process
- Making renewal payments also in high-risk countries
- Reporting to the customer
What is your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The customer maintains their IP portfolio with Dennemeyer
- The customer does not have a bi-directional data exchange in place
- The customer wants to give payment instructions for a) patents b) trademarks
- Looking for a quick and easy solution, avoiding additional emails
Approach
- Dennemeyer sets up an IP Lounge account, serving as a single gateway to the customer’s entire portfolio
- IP asset status can be checked 24/7 in Dennemeyer’s web-based Portfolio Management app
- The customer sees upfront which IP assets require instructions and is sent reminders
- The customer enters instructions directly in the Portfolio Management app
- The customer receives confirmation that instructions have been entered
Results & Benefits
- Portfolio maintenance via web-based applications, meaning no interface setup or IPMS is needed
- Instructions can be received 24/7
- Reminders ensure instructions are not forgotten to be sent
- Dennemeyer confirms receipt and makes the respective payment
- Dennemeyer reports the renewal process and shows updates in the Portfolio Management app
What is your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The customer maintains their IP portfolio with Dennemeyer
- The customer uses third-party software (Example: Unycom)
- The customer is looking for initial data integration and monthly data updates
- The customer wants to receive renewal documentation and avail of a docketing service
Approach
- Establishment of data exchange via the software interface
- Bi-directional updates possible
- The initial data dump is integrated
- A plausibility check is run, and a report is provided to the customer to eliminate discrepancies
- Ongoing weekly / monthly data updates can be integrated
- In case a copy of renewal documents cannot be transmitted via the interface, we can send copies via email or our in-house docketing service
Results & Benefits
- Our products are developed to streamline our customer’s processes and support the efficient maintenance of a complex portfolio
- We ease the data exchange via the interface
- Databases will be updated automatically
- Less administrative work
- Work process can be tailored to the customer’s internal procedure
- Dennemeyer offers interfaces with all common IPMSs
What is your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- After having received the renewal notice with the upcoming due dates, the customer instructs Dennemeyer to pay an annuity for a patent
- The customer sends the instruction via the Portfolio Management app
Approach
- Dennemeyer processes the instruction and sends the invoice to the customer
- In due time, Dennemeyer sends a payment order to the IP office or agent
- After the payment is completed, Dennemeyer uploads the payment proof to the Portfolio Management app for the customer to download
- Only upon receipt of the proof of payment is the renewal process considered completed
Results & Benefits
- Easy, secure and direct communication via the Portfolio Management app
- The customer will always receive proof of payment (upon receipt by Dennemeyer)
- Full transparency: The customer can observe the renewal progress at any time via the Portfolio Management app
What is your case?
- Situation
- Approach
- Results & Benefits
Situation
- The customer maintains their IP portfolio with Dennemeyer
- Renewals are performed by Dennemeyer
- For patents and trademarks, Dennemeyer provides filing receipts
- Dennemeyer additionally delivers a copy of the renewal certificate for trademarks
- The customer does not wish to establish a data exchange
- Or the customer does not use an IPMS
Approach
- Dennemeyer has an easy solution to convey the documents to the customer
- Various options:
- Portfolio Management app: a simple download of copies
- Copies are sent by email
- Dennemeyer’s docketing service handles documents in the third-party IPMS
Results & Benefits
- The customer will always receive the renewal documentation by some means
- Dennemeyer will check which is the best and most efficient solution for customer
- Original certificates (for trademarks) will be mailed to the customer
What is your case?
Renewal process
Renewals follow a simple streamlined process
A list of upcoming annuities, due dates and estimated fees.
Client replies to the renewal notice with instructions.
Invoice is sent out to clients for cases to be paid.
An official receipt is made available to the client once payment is complete.
Meet the IP team
Global IP Maintenance expertise
Contact us with any questions regarding our IP Maintenance services or the renewal of patents, trademarks, designs and utility models. Dennemeyer is a full-service provider, meaning we have the right person to fulfill your request anywhere in the world.
How can we support you?
Beth Gaines
Head of IP Solutions | Americas
Beth and her team are in charge of Patent Renewals, Trademark Renewals, Docketing, and new client onboarding throughout the Americas. She adds more than 25 years of legal and IP experience.
Beth and her team are in charge of Patent Renewals, Trademark Renewals, Docketing, and new client onboarding throughout the Americas. She adds more than 25 years of legal and IP experience.
Mario Gennen
Head of Trademark Renewals | EMEA
With 20+ years of experience in trademarks, Mario is your partner in Trademark Renewals in the EMEA region. He and his team provide best-in-class service, maintaining clients' trademark portfolios.
With 20+ years of experience in trademarks, Mario is your partner in Trademark Renewals in the EMEA region. He and his team provide best-in-class service, maintaining clients' trademark portfolios.
Paul Robu
Business Development | APAC
Paul is an experienced business development professional who has helped hundreds of organizations manage their IP portfolios. He works with businesses of all sizes.
Paul is an experienced business development professional who has helped hundreds of organizations manage their IP portfolios. He works with businesses of all sizes.
Yves Wenz
Head of Patent Renewals | EMEA
Yves is one of the key people in Dennemeyer's patent renewal business, leading and shaping IP solutions for more than 15 years. He supports new and existing customers with customized IP services and oversees the operational business in the EMEA region.
Yves is one of the key people in Dennemeyer's patent renewal business, leading and shaping IP solutions for more than 15 years. He supports new and existing customers with customized IP services and oversees the operational business in the EMEA region.
Yoshifumi Kamioka
Head of IP Operations | Japan
With more than 20 years of experience, Yoshifumi and his team provide maintenance solutions. In the Japanese market, he specializes in Patent and Trademark Renewal services.
With more than 20 years of experience, Yoshifumi and his team provide maintenance solutions. In the Japanese market, he specializes in Patent and Trademark Renewal services.
Ala He
Head of IP Operations | China
With more than 17 years of expertise in IP, Ala her team deliver high-quality and personalized maintenance. IP maintenance by Dennemeyer China is ranked among the best in the country.
With more than 17 years of expertise in IP, Ala her team deliver high-quality and personalized maintenance. IP maintenance by Dennemeyer China is ranked among the best in the country.
Julia Hermann
Product Management | EMEA
Julia is an expert in Patent and Trademark Renewals and Docketing services. She supports clients in determining the most suitable maintenance solution for their valuable IP portfolio.
Julia is an expert in Patent and Trademark Renewals and Docketing services. She supports clients in determining the most suitable maintenance solution for their valuable IP portfolio.
How can we support you?
Book anything from anywhere. Whether you are a small or medium business, international corporation or individuals, our team will assist you across the globe in coming up with ideas, customizing your products and services or outlining solutions to boost your enterprise.
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IP Maintenance for patents, trademarks, designs and utility models
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