Intellectual Property

Shaping Industry Growth

Our team members implement novel and traditional intellectual property law principles across various industries, including automotive, financial services, software development, publishing, electric manufacturing, specialty chemicals, security, entertainment, and health care.

Our attorneys assist clients in drafting licensing and development agreements and handling disputes to assisting individuals and institutions from early research through commercialization. We have experience litigating suits regarding involving technologies such as avionics, LCD optics, video signaling, semiconductor design and operation, thin film transistor manufacturing and design, voice-over-internet telephony and firewalls, routers and switches, network topology and message routing, LED design and operation, PECVD manufacturing processes, regulated medical devices, pharmaceutically active substances and formulations, cellular screening methods, computer software and electronic point of sale devices.

We provide advisory services to start-up businesses, individual innovators, as well as established companies throughout the U.S.

Shaping Outcomes

While we regularly guide clients through all stages of litigation, including appeals, the goal is always to avoid and resolve potential disputes before they reach that point or, at the very least, to achieve a successful result as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Our award-winning IP litigation team has litigated and favorably resolved game-changing IP cases—frequently engaging in cases alongside and against some of the nation’s most prominent law firms. We also have a track record of favorable outcomes in disputes adjudicated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and federal courts across the country.

We assess the evidence and pinpoint the issues crucial for early wins. We then position our clients to gain the strategic upper hand they need. With years of experience, we excel at conveying complex ideas and technologies to judges and juries and formulating persuasive arguments to secure victories.

We advocate for clients in federal and state courts, at the USPTO, the PTAB, and the TTAB, as well as at the ITC, WIPO, and various international dispute resolution venues.

Comprehensive IP Capabilities

• Searching and clearance of trademarks.
• Registering trademarks in the U.S. and internationally, and managing large trademark portfolios.
• Global brand protection and enforcement strategies
• Registering trade dress, product and packaging configurations.
• Watch/surveillance services for conflicting marks.
• Patentability searching.
• Preparing and filing U.S. and foreign patent applications, and managing large patent portfolios.
• Counsel on designing around valid patents.
• Patent and trademark licenses.
• Technology licenses.
• Technology transfers from universities to the private sector.
• Transactions involving technology and e-commerce.
• Intellectual property audits, management, and counseling.
• Issues in the context of mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
• Software and systems development, licensing, and protection.
• IP-related insurance counseling and coverage issues
• IP licensing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and collaborative arrangements
• Trade secrets, unfair competition, and the misappropriation of proprietary information
• Intellectual property litigation, arbitration, and appeals.
• Inter Partes Review.
• International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations.
• Antitrust litigation.
• S. Customs registration and enforcement of IP rights.
• Sweepstakes and promotions.
• Advertising compliance/clearance.
• FDA and FTC.
• E-commerce.
• Product Clearance.
• Issues in Internet website development, domain name disputes, and assisting with hosting, co-branding and content license agreements.
• Book publishing and publishing related contracts and transactions