What We Do

We analyze our client’s business model and assist them in determining what intellectual property is important to their short term and long term success, how it can be protected, and where protection should be obtained. We have worked with many diverse technologies, enabling us to bring a broad perspective in evaluating business ventures.

We can assist clients in their preparation of provisional applications, or undertake that endeavor outright. We are versed in the filing and utilization of PCT applications, and quarterback and manage a large network of foreign associates when foreign national applications are appropriate.

We have extensive hands-on experience in drafting and prosecuting to allowance patent applications that provide clients with meaningful protection. We are knowledgeable in the prosecution of both utility and design applications. Our creativity and honed legal skills enable us to craft broad patent claims and robust specifications. We have a wide breadth of technical knowledge, which we can bring to bear when an invention overlaps multiple technical areas.

We guide clients in protecting their brand, whether it involve products, services or a combination of both. We advise clients whether common law, state or federal marks are appropriate, and guide them as to the types and value of searches before filing. We routinely submit and prosecute federal trademark applications for marks, logos, slogans, designs, images and videos. When foreign protection is desired, our deep knowledge as to the types, possible pitfalls and costs of the variety of available filings resonates with clients.

We are skilled at guiding clients with respect to the patents, trademarks, trade secrets and intellectual property of others so as to ensure our client’s freedom to operate their business. We are adept at evaluating patents on their face, as well as conducting more in depth analyses of prosecution records and relevant prior art.

We work with companies in auditing their patent and trademark portfolios, whether as part of a periodic review or in connection with an upcoming investment, joint venture, acquisition or other liquidity event. Similarly, we team with investors in evaluating intellectual property portfolios, often as part of the due diligence process for a possible investment. As part of such audits and evaluations, we often assess the breadth, depth and quality of protection, compare the portfolio to product and service offerings of the company’s business, as well as the business of competitors, and determine where additional protection may be desirable.

Our clients value our judgment and professionalism in evaluating infringement claims of others, as well as possible infringements by others. We have the requisite knowledge and skills to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of our client’s position, and the creativity and professionalism to guide them in these matters.

We advise and represent clients in examining and in-licensing critical or desirable technologies and patents of others. As part of such process, we can evaluate the strength and breadth of the targeted intellectual property and assist the client by crafting appropriate documents that protect their interests. In addition, we routinely advise and represent clients in monetizing their intellectual property through licenses and joint ventures with others.

We advise and represent clients in a multitude of procedures before U.S. and foreign patent and trademark offices, including reexaminations, inter partes reviews and post grant reviews with respect to patents and oppositions with respect to trademarks.