Practice Areas

Patent Law Group offers an array of services to assist clients with the protection of their ideas, innovations, and identity, with a particular emphasis in the electrical and semiconductor arts, digital and analog electronic circuit design, medical devices, alternative energy, computer science, software, aerospace, communications, electro-mechanical control systems, manufacturing and business methods. We prepare agreements, technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions due-diligence, legal opinions, and litigation support.

Patent
Services

  • Preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and foreign countries
  • Prior art searches
  • First-to-file strategies
  • Pre-grant and post-grant prior art submissions and ex-parte reexamination
  • Monitoring and overseeing maintenance and renewals of U.S. and foreign patents
  • Drafting and negotiating license agreements and technology transactions
  • Providing legal opinions with respect to patent infringement and validity
  • Assisting clients/in-house counsel with seminars to educate employees/engineers/R&D in the patent process to encourage innovation
  • Design-around consultation
  • Technical and legal support to litigation counsel

Trademark
Services

  • Preparing, filing, and prosecuting trademark applications in the U.S. and foreign countries
  • Search of trademarks, service marks, trade names, and domain names in the U.S. and foreign countries
  • Trademark renewals
  • Trademark oppositions and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
  • Technical and legal support to litigation counsel

Other IP
Services

  • IP counseling in areas such as business methods, software, e-commerce, trade secrets, and non-disclosure
  • Legal opinions
  • Domain name disputes
  • Copyrights
  • Cease and desist letters
  • Non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements
  • Licensing agreements
  • Arbitration, mediation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution