Intellectual Property & Technology Attorneys

Patent protection is the gold standard for building asset and strategic value around technological solutions. Our intellectual property attorneys partner with select patent preparation and prosecution experts to bring world-class talent to bear on our clients’ technology innovations. Working together through the development of provisional and utility patent applications, we help to ensure that domestic and strategic business objectives are at the forefront of our clients’ patent development strategies, including important peripheral issues such as manufacturability, business competitive and collaborative potential, as well as full-spectrum IP portfolio development.

For industrial designs, technology interfaces and a range of design-oriented components, we develop and file domestic and international design patent applications to help augment functional protection strategies.

A key feature of our work with our clients is to in-license and out-license patents and patent portfolios, collaboratively developing deal terms that match the commercial potential of the underlying patents and patent applications. We can help you develop and negotiate royalty structures, mile-stone payments, exclusive and non-exclusive licensing and a range of variations on industry-standard terms.

From the moment a business begins, the careful development and protection of its brand identity present important opportunities to create and amplify visibility and proprietary strength. Our IP attorneys counsel our clients at the outset of the branding and brand identification to achieve maximum strength and defensibility, whether in the form of the name of a company, the brand and trade dress of products and services, domain names and integrated expressive works.

We also help our clients monetize and enforce their brands. Whether in the form of licensing, mergers or acquisitions, we provide strategies for conveying rights to others that maintain and accentuate the value and defensibility of those marks. On the enforcement side, our team actively monitors our clients’ brand portfolios and defends those portfolios from infringement and dilution by third parties and competitors.

The process of moving innovation to market often involves business and technology partnerships. We work with industry, investors and research organizations to optimize the sharing of risks and rewards arising from the commercialization process, while contextualizing deal and collaboration terms to reflect industry best practices, regulatory compliance and investment potential.

We also work with our clients to collaboratively develop and commercialize innovation, both at the research and development stage, as well as in the context of commercial partnering through such arrangements as marketing, distribution, white-labeling and OEM agreements.