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