Legal Services

Patents

  • Advising on cost-effective patenting strategies tailored to your business to gain a competitive advantage

  • Writing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including appeals and other proceedings at the USPTO

  • Managing international patenting efforts and portfolios through a network of associated firms in other countries, including applications, appeals, and oppositions

  • Representation in reissues, reexaminations, appeals, and inter partes and post grant reviews at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

  • Avoiding and resolving ownership and infringement disputes, including evaluating the validity of patents and patent applications, validity and infringement opinions

Trademarks

  • Advising on brand adoption and protection strategies including clearance searching, review and opinions

  • Registering trademarks domestically and internationally

  • Representation at the USPTO and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in appeals, and opposition and cancellation proceedings

  • Managing and maintaining domestic and international trademark portfolios

  • Avoiding and resolving trademark infringement disptutes

Trade Secrets

  • Advisingon the design and implementation of trade secret protection programs

  • Non-disclosure agreements

  • Avoiding and resolving disputes involving trade secrets

Copyrights

  • Registering copyrights

  • Counseling on scope, validity and infringement of copyrights

  • Clearance reviews and opinions for software, music, and other types of works

  • Advice on clean room development

  • Open soure software guidance

Transactions

  • Transfers of intellectual property rights

  • Structuring and negotiating licensing and cross licensing agreements

  • Technolgoy transfer, research, and product and software development and similar agreements

  • Representation and counsel on IP aspects of corporate transactions, including asset and stock purchase agreements, mergers, spin outs financing and investement, and other other complex business transactions

  • Software related agreements, including licenses, reseller and distribution agreements

  • Software asset transfers

  • Services agreements relating to sales, integration, support, and development of software and software-based services

Managing Infringement Risks

  • Avoiding third party rights, including assessing third party intellectual property rights and resolving allegations concerning infringement

  • Strategies for avoiding third party IP rights, avoidance and other risk management

Resolving Disputes

  • Defending intellectual property rights from invalidation

  • Advice and counsel on enforcing intellectual property rights, including pre-suit counseling, investigation and resolution of IP disputes

  • Resolving ownership issues

  • Working with litigation counsel to enforce IP rights and defend against claims of infringement