Our focus is intellectual property services. We work to secure meaningful legal protection for our clients' technologies, innovations, brand identities, and creative content and to help our clients avoid disputes with others.
Advising regarding how to legally protect your intellectual property
Whether you have a new idea, a product, a creative work, a mobile app, or a name or logo, we provide advice on how best to legally protect it. Depending on the situation, it may be appropriate to protect through copyright, trademark, design patent, utility patent, as a trade secret, or through a combination of different legal mechanisms. There are a number of considerations based on the specific facts involved. We can also conduct searches and provide analysis regarding the likelihood of protection available.
Advising regarding avoiding intellectual property rights of others
If you are making or selling a product then you will want to avoid taking unnecessary risks which could result in liability to intellectual property rights holders. Depending on the situation this may involve searching and performing analysis to determine what issues might exist and how to manage those issues.
We offer intellectual property services including:
Patent Prosecution
Patent Appeals and Post-Grant Proceedings
Patent Opinion Work and Support
Trademarks Prosecution
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Proceedings
Opinion Work and Support
Copyrights
Trade Secrets Issues
Advising regarding how to legally protect your intellectual property
Whether you have a new idea, a product, a creative work, a mobile app, or a name or logo, we provide advice on how best to legally protect it. Depending on the situation, it may be appropriate to protect through copyright, trademark, design patent, utility patent, as a trade secret, or through a combination of different legal mechanisms. There are a number of considerations based on the specific facts involved. We can also conduct searches and provide analysis regarding the likelihood of protection available.
Advising regarding avoiding intellectual property rights of others
If you are making or selling a product then you will want to avoid taking unnecessary risks which could result in liability to intellectual property rights holders. Depending on the situation this may involve searching and performing analysis to determine what issues might exist and how to manage those issues.
We offer intellectual property services including:
Patent Prosecution
- Domestic U.S. patent applications: provisional, non-provisional (utility), and design.
- International (PCT) applications
- PCT National Stage applications
- Paris Convention applications
- International Registration of an Industrial Design
Patent Appeals and Post-Grant Proceedings
- Patent appeals before the PTAB
- Ex-parte reexamination proceedings
- Reissue proceedings
- Inter partes review (IPR)
- Covered business method patent review (CBM)
- Post-grant review
- Supplemental Examination
Patent Opinion Work and Support
- Patentability opinions
- Product review and clearance
- Infringement and freedom-to-operate opinions
- Litigation support services (we will work with your litigation counsel)
- Licensing and contract work
Trademarks Prosecution
- Original U.S. filings
- International filings (including Madrid Protocol)
- Inbound Sec. 44(d), 44(e)
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Proceedings
- Trademark appeals
- Opposition proceedings (pre-grant)
- Cancellation proceedings (post-grant)
Opinion Work and Support
- Trademark availability opinions
- Infringement opinions
- Domain name disputes
Copyrights
- Copyright registration
- Copyright opinion work
Trade Secrets Issues
- Trade secret counseling
- Confidentiality agreements