Anser‘s principal activity consists in taking charge of patents on inventions and designs, or part of same, and handling the payment of all fees required to maintain their validity in a prompt and rapid fashion, monitoring all relating data using purposely designed electronic archives.

Anser ensures that its clients‘ industrial property portfolios are kept updated by extrapolating and notifying well in advance the due-dates for the payment of maintenance fees and, once its assignment is confirmed, paying annual fees according to the procedures laid down by the relevant laws and regulations of the various countries and/or supra-national organizations. It also monitors the progress of each matter through to receipt of official confirmation of payment.

Anser assures its clients the most advantageous financial terms possible and provides an international service that can be performed in any country in the world where it is possible to file an application for patent or for the registration of a trademark or a design.

One of Anser‘s major strengths is its application of advanced principles and modern methodologies at the highest operating and technological standards, dealing with a considerable mass of data and guaranteeing its punctual and careful management, customized according to each client‘s requirements.

• Advantages of the service — Entrusting the handling of annual fees and renewals to a specialized firm means that you save time and resources and it offers the opportunity to monitor and plan the work to be done because all payment due—dates are known well in advance.
   
• Fixed costs: official dues — This is a sum to be paid directly to the Patents and Trademarks Office of the relevant country. The amount usually cannot be changed, but certain countries do offer reductions in the case of so-called “rights licences" or to encourage the growth of small firms.
   
• Variable costs: exchange rates — A specialized firm such as Anser centralizes its currency exchange and transfer operations and handles a large number of annual payments: it is thereby able to contain costs for its clients and reduce the risks connected with exchange rate fluctuations.
   
• Variable costs: agency fees —In many foreign countries, a local agent is necessary in order to pay official fees. Such agents must be resident in the country in question and qualified to represent a client before the local Patent and Trademark Office. In such cases Anser often can negotiate better fees with a local agent for the benefit of Anser’s clients.