Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

Dolcera is a leading online competitive and technological intelligence service provider in the area of Intellectual Properties. They have launched Patent and Product Dashboards, a new interactive report that enables marketers to review customized competitive intelligence information from a single page in the Dolcera interface. The patent non-patent, marketing and product data that is updated according to client needs. These Dashboards reporting provides up-to-date snapshots of metrics that a decision maker consider most important to their online planning and reporting efforts. Dolcera has made it even easier for their clients to execute competitive insights from across multiple online project domains. Dashboards make it easier to access the vast amount of information through single interface. Dolcera is the first competitive intelligence firm to offer customizable Dashboard reports. Dolcera dashboards enable their clients to review, leave comments, and even perform other need based cus...

Dolcera Infomaxx Pvt. Ltd, a KPO + RPO based organization at Hyderabad is emerging as a giant outsourcing firm in India. We have created various landmarks in the area of IP and patent research outsourcing, through integration on various in-house developed software tools and human intelligence in delivery quality services to our clients. This is evident from being getting recognition from various expert groups such as SCIP, PIUG, etc. Dolcera is an international services firm specializing in intellectual property, market research and competitive strategy for North American, European and Asian clients. Our clients include a number of the world's largest legal and technical firms. Our carefully developed processes ensure consistent and accurate results. Internally developed analysis tools give our team a significant edge. We have delivered complex analysis and research projects in areas including telecommunications, enterprise software, advertising, and medical devices, pharmaceutica...

During the tenure of service, employees at higher income level would be required to pay heavy taxes on their bonus income. Superannuation Fund (SAF) enables the employers as well as employees to save income tax on such bonuses. The only restriction is that any excess over 27% of salary contributed by the employer to PF and SAF put together will not be allowed as deduction (Notification 10507 dated 16.1.98 w.r.e.f. 22.9.97). The trustees of the fund shall enter into a scheme of insurance with any insurer of life right from the start. Alternatively, they shall accumulate the contributions and interest thereon. With this amount, they shall purchase an annuity from the insurance company at the time of retirement (or prior death) of the employee, at or after a specified age, or on his becoming incapacitated prior to such retirement. At that juncture, the employee may be paid a commuted value not exceeding one-third of the corpus where the employee receives gratuity and half otherwise. This ...

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Today Intellectual property is universally recognized as the engine that drives advances in all technology related disciplines. A better understanding of how to develop, utilize and leverage IP is essential for all industries and professionals involved in various fields of technology. A better insight of the patenting activity reveals a more objective approach to determining how to prioritize research and development projects based on newly developed patent mapping and valuation techniques using state of the art software. Research-based firms continuously seek to discover new ideas and new technologies and to translate these into unique products. Products that can be protected from competition by patents or other intellectual property rights. This requires a solid knowledge of the market and the trends in the market; who are your competitors and who are potentially your partners? This is where a patent map will help you. Mapping the patent landscape will give you an overview of and ins...

Extracting information from huge datasets, based on keyword search is actually a challenging job. Patent databases contains millions of patent records and when it come to patent search to find out the relevant patent literature in a specified technology area, its really interesting but annoying too. The broader keyword based search results in more garbage, while narrower search may cause loss of some very critical and important patents. There comes the role of IPC and US class. We can get better results by combining the various relevant classification codes with the keywords. But it is also generate sometime 30% of unrelated patents. Thus patent searching is very important in an organization. It’s very crucial of technology companies as well as service providers. Since removing irrelevant patents during analysis, will cost time, thus affect the productivity and even the satisfaction of the clients. Some of the databases for providing the concept based search, but it is not so promising...

Patents had been long identified as most valuable informational source of the technical and competitive informations. During the last few years these have gained a lot more attention. Due to increase in the globalization and competition, it is very important for the companies to protect their innovations and also make their R&D activities more efficient. India is well recognized as a knowledge hub, due to it’s highly talent pool. A lots of IP services providers; emerge in India during the last few years. Most of them have are being started by 2-3 people with their contacts in mostly in US. Now these firms are become the giant in providing specialized IP services. Lots of Indian law professional and law firms are also now trying to enter into the market to provide the highest quality analysis and research services. Most of these companies are located in the Bombay, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore cities, with well developed infrastructures and internet access. Almost all firms are cl...