Soon to be forty years old, CPA (Computer Patent Annuities) is one of the world’s legal outsourcing companies. Founded in 1969, in Jersey, Channel Islands, it now has offices across the world in places such as the United States, Europe, Asia and the Pacific serving over 40,000 clients and handling more than 2 million patent, design and trademark records.
The company meets the legal and IP requirements of both, corporate clients (Microsoft and Intel among them), and attorney firms, and offers a whole spectrum of legal services ranging from litigation support and document review to research and consulting.

Its Indian operations mainly focus on providing several IP services to its international clients, of which the presently most common are related to patent and trademark research and prosecution. With Mr. Bhaskar Bagchi as the head of Indian Operations, and its offices at Noida, it currently employs a staff of over 200 and has recently moved into its own modern building. With an initial investment of $15 million, it plans to swell that amount with an additional $50 million by 2010 as well as increase its staff to up to 10, 000.
With regard to technology they have companies selling software calculated towards enabling the company and its clients to work together. They are Inprotech, a software product designed for attorney firms specializing in IP law, FoundationIP designed for IP attorney firms and corporations and. Memotech, a software collection for various companies.