Supporting Innovation With Intellectual Property Law Expertise

Hubbard Law, PLLC provides focused legal counsel and representation exclusively in intellectual property matters, serving entrepreneurs, startups, established small and mid-size companies, research institutions, and investors.

IP Protection Strategies

  • Strategic advice on the use of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets to protect and advance business objectives.

  • Guidance on protecting innovation and brand assets globally.

Patenting Services

  • End-to-end patent services covering invention identification, patentability analysis, trade secret protection, and all phases of U.S. and international patent prosecution.

  • Experience managing complex patent portfolios and coordinating with foreign counsel on global filings.

Trademark Services

  • Trademark clearance, registration, and enforcement, with full lifecycle portfolio management both domestically and internationally.

  • Conducting clearance searches, filing and prosecuting applications, and managing renewals and enforcement actions.

Opinions and IP Infringement Risk Mitigation

  • Legal opinions on infringement and validity of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other IP rights.

  • Strategies for manage risk of intellectual property infringement in product development, joint development, new business ventures, investment, and litigation.

  • Reviews of third party IP rights, including searching, assessing the validity and scope of third party IP rights.

  • Guidance on designing around third party rights and reverse engineering.

Dispute Resolution and Litigation Support

  • Evaluation of claims of IP infringement, validity, and ownership.

  • Pre-suit resolution of IP related disputes without litigation.

  • Consulting with and supporting trial counsel handling IP related claims.

  • Expert testimony on USPTO procedures.

Representation in USPTO proceedings

Representation in post-grant patent and trademark proceedings before the USPTO, including patent reexamination, AIA reviews, and cancellation actions.

IP Transactions and Licensing

Counsel and representation in a wide range of intellectual property transactions and technology agreements.

  • Structuring and negotiating IP licenses and transfers, including patent licenses, cross-licenses, technology transfers, trademark licenses, naming rights agreements, and many others.

  • Handling ownership, licensing, and transfer issues in business transactions, bankruptcies, and litigation.

  • Conducting intellectual property due diligence for investment, financing, acquisitions, and licensing arrangements.

  • Drafting and negotiating software and IT agreements, including end-user licenses, master services agreements, consulting and development contracts, distribution agreements, SaaS agreements, support and maintenance agreements, and purchase and sale contracts.

Copyright Services

  • Counsel and representation in matters involving copyrights in websites, books, music, video, movies, art, architecture, and the infringement of computer programs, file formats, programming interfaces, and other types of useful objects.