INTERNATIONAL PATENT GROUP, LLC
TAMPA, FLORIDA

Company Overview About International Patent Group INTERNATIONAL PATENT GROUP, LLC (IPG) is an intellectual property (IP) service company with offices in Tampa, Florida and in Calgary, Alberta. IPG provides services to clients throughout North America and the world. IPG's practice is oriented towards serving the unique goals and requirements of individual inventors, small business, large corporations, and IP firms. Key to IPG's success is quality customer service, broad capabilities, and extreme flexibility in working with clients to suit their particular IP protection needs. Unfortunately, most patent practitioners have a one-size-fits-all approach that often scares away most individual inventors and significantly limits the patent portfolio size of small businesses and corporations. The president of International Patent Group is David A. Guerra who is a licensed U.S. patent agent, and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida. David Guerra is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has written and/or prosecuted over 400 hundred U.S. patent applications, including PCT and national stage applications. David Guerra has also conducted tens of thousands of patent searches ranging from patentability, clearance, validity, collection, infringement, state of the art. Prior to creating International Patent Group, Mr. Guerra was the leading search manager for one of the largest patent search service companies in the United States. During his time there, Mr. Guerra has trained and managed patent agents and over 30 engineers in intellectual proper law, patent drafting, and patent searching. He was also involved in the development of one of the only privately owned searchable patent databases. The goal here at International Patent Group is to provide fast, quality work to clients. rights for their invention or assisting in entering the International Patent Application (PCT) stage. IPG specializes in offering patent and engineering services geared towards corporations, intellectual property firms, and private inventors. Patent protection is an important step in the development of any new invention, idea, or concept. Either you are a large research and development group or an independent inventor, all will enjoy the limited monopoly a patent provides to them. The patent process has become complicated and tricky to navigate even for the most experienced inventor. Therefore, it is highly encouraged that you utilize the services of a registered patent professional. International Patent Group is a highly specialized firm that provides complete patent services from the initial review of an idea or invention, through the preparation and prosecution of your patent application, to the final outcome of the examination process which hopefully results in an issued patent. Assistance can also be provided in the filing of patent applications in many foreign countries or through the international application stage (PCT). IPG has experience in provided services for inventions in a wide variety of industries and with corporations located all over the world, but no matter how large or small our clients get the same level of attention and detail. Patents are highly regarded as one of the most import assets an inventor or company can have. The owning of a monopoly on an invention gives you the opportunity to control the outcome of your idea. - Recent PTAB decisions have more clearly defined the requirements for petitioners in relying on multiple embodiments of a single reference when making a § 103 argument. Petitioners should provide a showing that the "various embodiments are interchangeable or that one skilled in the art would have combined those features in the manner proposed by Petitioner.” See - On October 24, 2017, the PTAB designated as “informative” three decisions that discretionarily denied institution of IPR petitions under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d). Section 325(d) provides that “the Director may take into account whether, and reject the petition or request because, the same or substantially the same prior art or arguments previously were presented to the Office.”.