Services We Provide
Each client presents a different set of goals, opportunities, and challenges. Therefore, an important first step, and one repeated often during the working relationship is determining how how our experience and skills can best be applied to achieve a client’s goals. To this end, we represent individual and corporate clients in a wide range of matters, including:
- Patent application drafting and prosecution
- Intellectual property strategy
- Trade secret program development and implementation
- Portfolio analysis
- Competitive landscape analysis
- Design-around strategy
- Technology/patent licensing
- Validity and infringement opinions
- Litigation support
- IP department infrastructure matters (such as establishing invention disclosure tracking programs, patent committees, internal docketing systems, and so on)
Representative Technologies
Imaging, optical systems, and components -
- Solid state lasers and diodes
- Optical switching and wavelength routing
- Optical MEMS components and systems
- Optical data storage
- Optical fiber communications equipment
- Consumer electronic devices
Electronics and electrical systems -
- Integrated circuits
- Solid state data storage
- Magnetic data storage
- Logic systems
- Flat panel displays
- Printed electronic devices
- Amorphous silicon processing
- Thin-film solar cells
- Capacitive biometric sensors
- Graphics display processors
- Consumer mechanical devices
Mechanicals and mechanical systems -
- Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
- Printing/Marking systems
- Carbon fiber components and bicycle frames
Software -
- Mobile graphics processing software
- Remote tracking software
- Database software and interfaces
- Personal financial software
- Search and web-page ranking software
- Application-specific software components (APPS)
- Email spam management
- Mathematical modeling systems
Strategic Relationships
In some cases there is a need to complement our services with the services of other professionals, and in particular other legal specialties. In order to address these needs, we have relationships with a number of domestic and international firms and other support organizations specializing in various facets of intellectual property law, valuation, licensing, litigation, human resources, corporate structure and governance, securities, tax, regulatory laws, etc., who likewise provide highest quality and cost-effective representation for their clients.