Combining business perspectives, technical knowledge and industry experience, our Intellectual Property attorneys help our clients protect their sources of competitive advantage and maximize their revenue streams.  We start by understanding the business of each client in great detail and working with them to create a patent strategy that is consistent with their business objectives.

Our business-focused intellectual property portfolio management rests on three key areas:

  • Know What You Have:  This is far more than doing an inventory of patents, trademarks, and copyright registrations of a business.  We provide understandable and meaningful portfolio reviews.  We identify and assemble the specific intellectual property assets of a given enterprise, then work with our clients to efficiently drive an information-based IP acquisition and maintenance program.
  • Know What You Need:  We help clients to coordinate business plans, industry intelligence, technology road maps, and strategic planning.  We help develop cohesive knowledge management tools that can readily communicate the intellectual property needs of a business at all levels of the enterprise.
  • Acquire What You Need:  In addition to providing the core services to acquire protection for inventions, we can also help to identify opportunities to acquire needed assets through licensing, acquisition, joint business ventures, or other business arrangements.

Our patent transactions team has experience and dedicated resources to assist in every aspect of portfolio management and monetization:

  • Assessing and developing internal IP operations
  • Understanding your IP rights
    • Portfolio analysis
    • Patent landscape analysis
    • Patent mining and mapping
    • Due diligence investigations
    • Infringement and right to use
    • Validity and enforceability assessments
    • Strategic counseling and opinions
  • Developing and managing your rights
    • Strategic patent and trademark prosecution
    • IP acquisitions
    • Business and technical collaborations
    • Strategic counseling
  • Using and transferring your rights
    • Monetization advice
    • Licensing programs
    • Patent sales and private auctions
    • Divestitures
    • Cross licensing
    • Dispute resolution and settlement agreements
    • IP transactions
    • Negotiating and drafting agreements
    • Patent pooling and standards
    • IP regulatory and administrative issues