Patent

Most of our lawyers devoted to patent prosecution and counseling have doctorate degrees in inorganic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, molecular biology, plant genetics, pharmacology, organic chemistry, or virology. Many also have backgrounds in government, industry, and academia in positions as researchers, consultants, patent examiners, and administrative judges at the USPTO. Others previously worked as corporate counsel responsible for domestic operations, including sales, patent portfolio management, and strategic competitor and market analysis.

In the field of chemistry, we represent diverse clients and have a particular experience in the following areas:

• Pharmaceuticals: therapeutics, carriers, diagnostics, and kits
• Industrial chemicals: polymers, plastics, films, resins, latexes, adhesives, inks, dyes, pigments, colorants, explosives, propellants, and batteries
• Metallics/organometallics: alloys, metallurgics, catalysts, conductive polymers and films, and anticancer formulations
• Specialty chemicals: composites, fibers, nanotubes, optical coatings, surfactants, and porcelains

In the life sciences, including biotechnology, we represent clients in matters spanning traditional pharmaceutical and cutting-edge technologies. We advise clients with patents involving the following:

• Immunology
• Virology
• Molecular biology
• Animal and plant genetics
• Gene therapy
• Protein chemistry
• Pharmacology
• Enzymology
• Bioinformatics

Our specific areas of knowledge include the following:

• Recombinant cytokines
• Recombinant antigens and vaccines
• Antisense technology
• Cloning
• Differential display technologies
• Yeast fermentation
• Genomics and genetic engineering
• Antibodies and immunoassay methods
• Rational drug design
• Synthesis and screening of combinatorial libraries

Our patent lawyers focus on prosecution and counseling related to business method and ecommerce technologies. Many of these lawyers have industry experience and hold advanced degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.

Our experience extends to a wide variety of technologies, systems, and platforms relating to purchasing and payment processing; electronic trading; financial instrument issuance and administration; data synchronization; computer interfaces; application testing; stored value card redemption and processing; gift card and reward/loyalty card processing; authentication and security; advertisement serving and targeting; fintech; and mobile applications.

Our high-tech lawyers, technical specialists, and patent agents are devoted to global patent prosecution, counseling, USPTO post-grant  proceedings, intellectual property (IP) licensing, due diligence, and litigation support. 

We represent diverse clients including individual inventors, startups, global high-tech giants, academic researchers and universities, and mature public companies in areas such as personal electronics, Internet services, cloud computing software and infrastructure, computer hardware and operating system software, advanced displays, automotive technology, signal processing, communication systems, nanotechnology, social networking, storage, and semiconductor devices. Our team has particular experience in:

• Mobile computing, including user interface design for touchscreen interfaces and mobile device operating software and applications
• Big data, including analytics, distributed databases, and back-end infrastructure
• Computing infrastructure, including distributed computing and storage and all aspects of computer system architecture and hardware and software design
• Semiconductors and materials, including integrated circuit fabrication, design, and packaging
• Social media
• Gaming
• Security and privacy
• Internet of Things
• Telecommunications
• Wearable computing
• Cleantech

We support our clients in all phases of their business as it relates to technology, including leading brainstorming and invention harvesting sessions to identify key concepts for patenting, formulating global IP protection strategies, engaging in robust continuation practice to mine value from existing patent applications, preparing noninfringement and invalidity opinions, supporting litigation through offensive claim analysis, defending and prosecuting in USPTO inter partes review proceedings, and conducting diligence on patent portfolios for purchase or sale.

Our lawyers focusing on mechanical inventions have diverse technical backgrounds in mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace, marine, and materials engineering. Most of these team members worked as engineers, patent examiners, or law clerks to federal judges prior to joining the firm. Several have held positions in major corporations as in-house counsel.

Our team members focus on helping clients develop, prosecute, and enforce high-quality utility and design US and global patent portfolios. We work hand in hand with our clients on licensing and litigation counseling. We routinely handle diverse subject matter, including automotive, construction, consumer devices, manufacturing, medical devices, and sporting goods.

Our software group boasts technical professionals and patent agents who are devoted to global patent prosecution, counseling, USPTO post-grant proceedings , IP licensing, due diligence, and litigation support. A substantial number of our lawyers hold advanced degrees (including Ph.Ds) in fields such as computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, and bioinformatics. Many also have backgrounds in government, industry, and academia as software engineers, circuit and product designers, communications engineers, researchers, strategic competitor and market analysts, patent examiners, and professors. Others have experience as corporate counsel responsible for patent portfolio management, patent litigation, and IP transactions and licensing. As befits our global practice, many of our lawyers are fluent in second languages.

We represent diverse clients including individual inventors, startups, global high-tech giants, academic researchers and universities, and mature public companies in areas such as cloud computing, social networking applications, database architecture, software as a service (SaaS), memory management, pattern classification, diagnostic methods, search engines, security, graphical user interfaces, bioinformatics, haptics/touch, speech/voice, and ecommerce.

We support our clients in all phases of their business as it relates to technology. Businesses turn to us to lead brainstorming and invention harvesting sessions to identify key concepts for patenting, formulate global IP protection strategies, engage in robust continuation practice to mine value from existing patent applications, prepare noninfringement and invalidity opinions, support litigation through offensive claim analysis, defend and prosecute in USPTO inter partes review proceedings, and conduct diligence on patent portfolios for purchase or sale.