As patent counsel within a full-service firm, we take a business-centric approach to our comprehensive patent representations. Our patent lawyers and agents are fluent in the scientific disciplines that even the most complex patentable ideas require. More, we are skilled at discerning the business, market, and legal realities that impact both patent rights and patent counsel representations. We routinely look beyond the immediate goal of filing a patent application when working with clients. Instead, we take a global perspective as we balance the risks and benefits of various levels of protection and evaluate how patent coverage integrates with the client’s business needs.
This approach has led to us serving clients in a wide variety of roles including as patent rights advisors, outside chief patent counsel, and patent counsel of record. In particular, medium-sized entities that lack in-house IP resources appreciate our support, as do IP counsel at organizations looking for representation whose value includes both process efficiencies as well as service-based offerings.
Patent Preparation & Prosecution
Our team files and prosecutes patents on a global basis. All of our patent attorneys and agents are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Each has at least one technical degree. Many have advanced degrees. Our patent attorneys follow a process-driven approach with our patent agents, paralegals, and staff to provide high-value protection at Midwestern rates.
Guiding Clients Around Others’ Patents
We help our clients successfully manage infringement risk so that they can sell their products and services with confidence. At all stages of the product development process, we offer informal advice, render formal opinions, and help clients navigate complex patent landscapes. When circumstances warrant, we partner with our patent litigators to defend against infringement allegations and challenge the validity of overbroad patent claims.
Patent Capitalization
As clients’ businesses and IP portfolios evolve, we work with them on the technology transfer side as well, to correlate their own growing IP portfolios with processes for “licensing in” the rights of other patentees, or “licensing out” their own patents to others. In addition, we provide representation for monetization of patent rights, including due diligence investigations, private equity assessments, and other patent rights enforcement efforts, including litigation.
