Able Fisher's client dedicated teams of lawyers in India, Europe and the United States deliver best-of-breed patent analytics and patent drafting, commercial contract, legal research and litigation document review services to the U.S., UK European and Japanese Corporations and law firms at a radically low cost.

We integrate our people and our systems with our clients globally through a customized, secure international telecommunications and internet platform, creating a seamless, global 24-7-365 work environment that surpasses traditional internal office experiences

Why Able Fisher India?

There are several reasons we have chosen India as the location of our support center. Here is a summary of the factors that influenced our choice:

Our India Advantage

Able Fisher joins the likes of General Electric Corp. and many other Fortune 500 companies in outsourcing legal work to highly-qualified, English-speaking attorneys based in India. Outsourcing to India gives us the clear competitive advantage over other legal service firms in terms of cost, quality and turnaround time.

High Quality at Low Cost

At Able Fisher quality is our primary goal. When you retain Able Fisher, your have access to our pool of UK/U.S.-based Legal Research Attorneys and Patent Attorneys, and practiced at a reputable law firm prior to joining Able Fisher. This same attorney thoroughly reviews each of the completed projects for accuracy and proper format. If you have follow-up questions or concerns By hiring India-based attorneys, we are able to take advantage of the large wage disparity between Indian attorneys and their European and U.S. counterparts, and our rates reflect this cost advantage. We are also able to be extremely selective in our hiring practices. Each of our India-based Research Specialists has graduated from one of the top five law schools in India, practiced law for at least three years, received extensive legal training from U.S. attorneys, and passed our rigorous legal research and writing exam.

In addition, a large percentage of our India-based attorneys have legal degrees from reputable European and U.S. law schools. Like many of the Fortune 500 companies, we have found that these attorneys are at least as capable of providing high quality legal research and writing as their United States' counterparts.

Human Resources

India has over 1.2 billion people with its colleges graduating over 3,000,000 students a year. This has created a large resource pool.

Advanced Education

India has an ancient tradition of education. Its 250 public universities, 1500 research institutions and over 10,000 colleges graduate over 300,000 master level students and 180,000 PhD and MD level students a year.

English

All college and graduate level course work is conducted in English. India has the second largest pool of English-speaking college graduates in the world, second only to the US.

Prevailing Wage

The prevailing wage in India is 25% of the prevailing wage in the U.S.

British Based Legal System

India's legal system, like the United States', is based on the British model.

Quality

India has been the pioneer in offshore Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES). It is also the world leader in ISO and top-level CMM certifications. The focus on quality has permeated the country's business.

Our Facilities

Our support facility has the following features:

• Our facility is in Gurgaon, a suburban location close to central Delhi, the capital and legal center of India and associates in Chennai
• The Delhi international airport receives dozens of international direct flights from a variety of locations.
• Our facility and practices are designed to provide high levels of physical and electronic security.

Our LPO Services

Patent Research & Prosecution

All our lawyers in our outsourcing business have graduate law degrees, and exposure to and familiarity with patent litigation and licensing, as well as the intricacies of patent application drafting and prosecution.

Each of our India-based Patent Specialists have graduated from a premier Indian university with a degree in his or her respective field and has at least three years of experience drafting U.S. patents for large U.S. companies. In addition, a large percentage of the Patent Specialists graduated from one of the top five law schools in India and/or have advanced degrees in their respective fields. Our Patent Specialists have experience in drafting chemical, pharmaceutical, electrical, and mechanical patents. Our team accesses industry leading databases, such as Delphion, Aureka and Micropatent, in addition to USPTO and all other relevant public databases.

Our patent prosecution team's mission is to deliver best of breed services at a cost that enables European & U.S. counsel to service their respective clients in a more cost efficient manner. From a service quality standpoint, we ensure protection of intellectual property and minimize the likelihood of litigation. From a cost perspective, we minimize not only the Euro and US dollar costs incurred by the European and U.S. attorneys to whom we are delivering our services, but also the time incurred by the attorneys and their clients. In doing so, we seek to support our customers in growing their patent prosecution practices and maximizing the profits realized from those practices.

Patent Application Support

• Prior Art Searches
• Patent Illustrations
• Proof reading
• Preparation of utility and design patent applications.
• Handling PTO correspondence.
• On-going competitor patent review.
• IDS Evaluation

Patent research, engineering searches with regard to patentability and validity, study of prior art references, drafting technical specifications, and claim chart preparation.

• Patent Application Drafting and Filing
• Landscapes
• Freedom-of-Use and Other Patent Related Studies
• Patent Invalidation Research and Studies
• Claims Mapping Studies
• Patent Mining and Administration

Legal Research & Competitive Intelligence

Able Fisher India's Research Team provides reliable analytical and persuasive legal research services.

Our lawyers use industry-standard on-line databases, such as Westlaw, LEXIS/NEXIS, PACER and BNA.

The Research Team has analyzed the following subject-matters:

• Federal, state and administrative statutes and caselaw, concerning topics ranging from employment law, bankruptcy, civil procedure, intellectual property, business and personal torts, contracts, UCC, real estate, insurance, reinsurance, and ethics.
• Regulated industries, such as corporate governance, securities, tax, immigration, international trade and export control, and telecommunications.
• International law and directives, particularly commonwealth and EU jurisdictions, including labour and employment regulations, trans-border taxation, and intellectual property.
• Multi-jurisdictional surveys of state and local caselaw, statutes, ordinances and regulations.

Competitive Intelligence

Able Fisher Research Team cuts through the massive body of business, regulatory, news and legal databases to provide our clients with the business-related information they require when they need to know their dispute posture.

Our researchers review public securities filings, search on-line news and proprietary databases, penetrate company websites, and explore analyst presentations to find the material information that our clients want.

Able Fisher specializes in compiling background research on business-entities, including:

• Developing adverse party litigation profiles;
• Vetting civil and expert witness curriculum vitae.
• Analyzing competitor, product or industry revenue streams.

Document Review & Litigation Services

Able Fisher Document Reviewers are the same experienced litigators that perform our Legal and Competitive Intelligence services, so they understand how to identify important factual and legal concepts and can spot the documents that are relevant to those issues. They are experienced with using cutting-edge web-based ASP-based e-discovery platforms and review strategies to:

• Analyze documents for materiality, privilege, and responsiveness to discovery requests, subpoenas, informal and formal regulatory requests;
• Conduct large-scale electronic file reviews;
• Summarize voluminous documents;
• Create subjectively coded load files with reliable and searchable content;
• Identify and folder issue, witness and hot document files.
• Able Fisher is also an expert in auditing and abstracting complex agreement portfolios; interpreting the agreements for material terms and creating databases.

Contract Drafting & Management

The Commercial Contracts team at Able Fisher LPO arm includes a large team of lawyers located in our India office. Our lawyers each have more than 10 years of experience in drafting, negotiating and litigating licensing, transfer, distribution and procurement agreements for IT equipment and software, IT services, internet services, other intellectual property and general products and services.

Our contract lawyers in India have law degrees and significant experience working as contract lawyers in Indian private practice law firms and/or corporations.

The team accesses an extensive database of forms (pro-vendor, pro-buyer/licensee, and negotiated) and demonstrates tremendous proficiency and expertise in applying and tailoring forms when appropriate to deliver best-of-breed contracts in a cost efficient manner.

Drafting of Agreements

• Development
• Licensing
• Procurement
• Distribution or transfer
• Financing
• Industry Specific

Agreement Review & Management

• Review and comment against client form or standard positions
• Review and comment against client parameters (e.g., product specifications, service levels, insurance coverage)
• Manage and administer entire contract review/revision process
• Manage all contract administration functions

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