Patents

By patenting their innovations, our clients increase the value of their intellectual property and enhance their ability to compete in the marketplace. We work with individual scientists and engineers, laboratory and research teams, and R&D and product development groups to determine whether, when and where it is in our clients' business and technical interests to seek patent protection. And we don't just file patent applications. Drawing on our experience with patent litigation, corporate financings and technology transactions, we implement IP strategies that conserve resources, add measurable value and give our clients a cost-effective and commercially practical competitive edge.

In the last two years alone, we filed over 3,200 US and foreign patent applications and obtained about 800 US and foreign patents for our clients, covering innovations that span the technological spectrum, including aerospace, biochemistry, biotechnology, business methods, chemistry, computer science, fuel cells, genetics, high speed data communication, integrated circuits, materials science, medical devices, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor devices/processes, and software. We also prepare and prosecute patent applications internationally—under the Patent Cooperative Treaty and in working with a network of seasoned patent lawyers around the world. Our experience extends to appeals, interferences and opposition proceedings within the USPTO, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the European Patent Office.