Patent

Our lawyers are skilled in all phases of the patent process, including prosecution of individual patent applications and successful challenges to competing claimants. We follow a well-planned process to assess whether an invention is distinctive enough to receive patent office approval and whether the claim is properly positioned against competing inventions. We perform complete patent searches for possible infringement conflicts before clients attempt to patent and introduce a new product or product family, and offer guidance on how to circumvent any possible conflicts and still gain innovative advantage. 

Representative Client Work

• Obtained favorable monetary settlement from bankruptcy estates of defendant and its multinational affiliates for our client, a U.K. plaintiff that had commenced prepetition patent infringement action involving voice recognition software technology. Through successive asset sales, we preserved our client's rights of action against each of the purchasers in the event of any future infringement
• Represented a life sciences company in a patent infringement action relating to an automatic pole zero adjustment circuit for an ionizing radiation spectroscopy system
• Secured a favorable settlement for our client in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning temperature time and tracking devices
• Represented a medical device company with the strategic development and prosecution of its patent portfolio related to breast biopsy and cryoablation devices
• Represented a publicly-traded life sciences company in a patent infringement action relating to cell preservative fluids