Intellectual Property

Our Intellectual Property (IP) practice provides our clients with a full-service patent, trademark, copyright, and technology law practice leveraging our wholistic, client-focused approach to develop and manage our client’s IP assets in both domestic and foreign markets. As those IP assets are frequently at the core of their business models, we help clients navigate the uncertainties of technology law to achieve practical business objectives. From small startups to Fortune 100 companies, clients trust us to help them develop, protect, and exploit their valuable IP assets, and when necessary, enforcing their rights and defend our clients from claims of infringement.

We help clients see their business from an IP perspective. We look holistically at their products, processes, operations and marketing, with an eye toward identifying and protecting the aspects that are unique and worth defending. Once we have identified these value drivers, we anticipate how they may be infringed and leveraged to benefit our client’s business, and we build protections around them.

As IP assets can play an outsized role in corporate transactions, we work closely with colleagues in our Investment Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Finance & Transactions practices to perform due diligence on all IP-related transactional matters.

Our clients have us oversee their day-to-day IP management, from the filing and prosecuting of applications, to the licensing and monetization of IP assets and the litigation and defense of infringement claims.  Additionally, we work on IP-matters around the world through our established international network of associates.

We offer practical, business-oriented advice and counsel in the following areas:

• Patents
• Trademarks
• Copyrights
• Trade Secrets
• Litigation in federal and state courts and before the International Trade Commission
• Proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Office and Copyright Office
• Licensing of IP assets
• M&A-Related Services
• Information Technology/Strategic Alliances