Turning innovation into success
Representing entrepreneurs, startups, small businesses, institutions, and investors in the innovation economy with comprehensive legal advice and counsel on intellectual property rights.
Counsel and advice on IP protection strategies
Recommendations and guidance on actions and comprehensive strategies for using a combination of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets — collectively, “IP” — to advance your business interests and objectives.
Advice on patents and patenting
Counseling on overall patenting strategies, selecting inventions for patenting, and developing and maintaining a patent portfolio. to help you achieve your business objectives.
Patenting writing and prosecution
Writing and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and, with local counsel, in other countries that add value to your business requires based on a strong technical understanding of your invention, your business, and the complexities of the patent laws and the patenting process.
Trademark clearance, registration, and portfolio maintenance
Counseling and services for selecting, registering, and maintaining trademarks through their entire life cycle, including, clearance searches, registration of trademarks in the United States and, with local counsel as necessary, in other countries, abroad, and maintenance trademark portfolios.
Freedom to operate studies
Identifying relevant third-party rights, assessing their validity and scope, and advice on managing the risk of infringement in the context of new business ventures, investment, licensing, research, product development, design around efforts, and reverse engineering.
International patent portfolio development and management
We manage patenting programs worldwide, working with local counsel in various countries to file, prosecute, and maintain patent applications and patents throughout their life cycle.
Dispute resolution and litigation
Evaluation of claims of IP infringement and ownership and advice and representation to resolve IP related disputes without litigation. Consluting with and supporting trial counsel handling IP claims.
Representation in USPTO proceedings
Representation of patent owners, trademark registration owners, and third party challengers in post-issuance proceedings at the USPTO, such as reissue applications, ex parte patent reexaminations, third-party submissions, inter partes and post grant reviews, trademark oppositions, and trademark cancellations.
Infringement and validity studies and opinions
Evaluations and formal opinions relating to specific patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other IP rights presenting risks in the context of product development, licensing and other corporate transactions, and litigation.
IP transactions and due diligence
Drafting and negotiating assignments and licenses of IP rights, including advice on structuring and executing IP aspects of technology transfers, cross-licenses, settlements of IP claims, and IP aspects of bankruptcies and corporate transactions such as joint ventures, development agreements, distribution agreements, asset purchases and sales, spin-offs, mergers, franchising, and naming rights agreements. Due diligence in connection with financing, purchasing, licensing
Software development and licensing
Drafting and negotiation software related license and services agreements, such as end-user licenses, master services agreements, consulting and development agreements, distribution agreements, software as a service (SAAS) agreements, support and maintenance agreements, purchase and sale agreements, as well as advice on open source software and copyright issues.
Copyright issues
Advice on copyright issues involving computer software, websites, books, music, video, movies, art, and architecture, including on issues of copyright validity, term, infringement, fair use, and non-functional, expressive aspects of computer programs, file formats, programming interfaces, a and other types of useful objects.