One of the objections people often take to outsourcing of any type, but in particular to legal outsourcing, is the risk of breach of confidentiality.
Although ethic boards have upheld that outsourcing/offshoring legal work to an unlicensed attorney is ok as long as it is under the supervision of a licensed attorney, some still question whether it is.
The truth of the matter is that even without offshoring such work to India and other places, American law firms already assign some of their legal work to not only non-licensed attorneys but to some who are not even law graduates in the United States itself. And it’s not as though their services come cheap. Their work is, of course, overseen by licensed attorneys.
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Reportedly there are over 40 organizations, in India that provide IP services. These include subsidiaries of multinational companies and third party vendors.

Among the Intellectual Property services that are being offshored to India is Prior Art Searches.

This could be a highly technical and complex matter or it could be a “routine” search. No matter the type, these searches are expected to accurately summarize relevant portions of prior art and save you time.
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