Released on: May 6, 2008, 12:06 am

Press Release Author: Evalueserve

Industry: Law

Press Release Summary: China’s huge consumer market and large manufacturing base are
rapidly growing in importance worldwide. As a result, foreign companies are
increasingly looking for service providers such as Evalueserve to search non-English
patent and non-patent databases. Prior Art Searches (36 percent of all patent
projects) and Competitor Analysis services (25 percent) are especially in high
demand. During the past 18 months, Evalueserve has observed a substantial increase
in the demand for patent research conducted in the major Asian languages of Chinese,
Japanese and Korean.

Press Release Body: “Searching the Chinese patent database and analyzing patent
documents from a strategy perspective is what we are focusing on. We started out by
helping Western law firms and corporations to better understand Chinese prior art.
We soon realized that it is imperative for patent and non-patent searches to be
conducted in Mandarin because coverage in English is minimal. In order to cater
efficiently to the needs of domestic and foreign clients, a patent research
professional should be fluent in Mandarin and English, and should also have a sound
technical background. A large talent pool in Shanghai allows Evalueserve to leverage
these capabilities and effectively carry out prior art searches, patent landscape
and claims overlap analysis,” says Ram Deshpande, Senior Manager of the Intellectual
Property Division of Evalueserve China.

All members of Evalueserve’s Intellectual Property (IP) team in China are fluent in
Mandarin and English, and some also speak a third language such as Korean or
Japanese. In China, patent databases and several non patent databases are available
online in Mandarin, and Evalueserve’s multilingual team conducts searches in all
databases including the China Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database. Since
complete English translations of Chinese patents are usually not available online,
on-the-ground representation is essential. As multinational companies increasingly
start looking to patent their inventions in China, the unique research and analysis
proposition that Evalueserve offers gives these companies an advantage over its
competitors.

Evalueserve was the first Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm to start offering
patent research services from China in September 2006. This team has 20
professionals and collaborates closely with more than 250 professionals in
Evalueserve’s main operation center in India.

Web Site: http://www.evalueserve.com

Contact Details: Evalueserve Business Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Unit J, 4th
Floor, Zao Fong Universe Building, 1800 Zhongshang West Road, Shanghai 200235, PR
China
Tel: +86 21 6440 3360
Fax: +86 21 6440 3357
Email: pr@evalueserve.com