Intellectual Property
From protecting a new invention or brand to enforcing those rights before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in state, federal, and appeals courts, the law firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group provides a broad array of intellectual property (IP) legal services for entrepreneurial start-up ventures, emerging businesses and established companies. Our services range from patent and trademark prosecution before the USPTO to licensing, portfolio management and complex IP litigation. In addition, the group counsels clients on copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, trade dress, software, artificial intelligence, cyber, quantum technologies, and other emerging technologies. The range of practice group’s services extends to representing clients with respect to contracts addressing intellectual property and related rights. The firm’s intellectual property counsel addresses your legal needs with sound advice and creative solutions so that you can protect your ideas and focus on your business goals.
Practice Group Attorneys
Areas of Experience
- Agricultural technology (agtech) and precision agriculture innovations
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning inventions, including AI-assisted invention and inventorship questions
- Blockchain and smart contract technology
- Brand clearance and trademark searches
- Cease-and-desist letters, sending and responding
- Clean energy, solar and energy storage technologies
- Copyright infringement litigation
- Copyright registration and protection
- Cybersecurity and data protection
- Data rights and licensing for AI training data
- Design patents
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns and safe harbors
- Domain names, e-commerce and internet law
- Employee inventions, shop rights and co-inventorship
- Financial technology (fintech) and payment systems
- Intellectual property appeals
- Intellectual property in business transactions
- Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices
- International patent and trademark portfolio management
- IP valuation
- License agreements: drafting, negotiation and enforcement
- Medical device and medical system patents
- Open-source software licensing
- Patent infringement litigation
- Patent prosecution
- Patent searches and prior art research
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings
- Provisional patent applications
- Quantum device, quantum computing and quantum sensing technologies
- Semiconductors, electronics and control systems
- Software and computer-implemented inventions
- Trade dress
- Trade secret protection and litigation
- Trademark infringement and unfair competition litigation
- Trademark registration and prosecution
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings
- University and research technology transfer
- Utility patents