Patent and Trademark Prosecution and Counseling

Our goal is to help clients build the best companies in the world. We combine decades of legal expertise, strong values, a practical approach, and an extensive network of business experts to support entrepreneurs and investors as they start and grow successful companies.

Patents

Strong patent rights are powerful business tools for emerging and established businesses—providing access to capital, attracting merger partners and protecting investments and market share. Our patent prosecution and counseling attorneys have degrees in a variety of scientific areas and all have experience working as engineers, inventors, researchers and educators.

• Portfolio Management & Strategy
• Advising on the patentability of inventions
• Preparing and prosecuting patent applications to issuance
• Preparing non-infringement, invalidity, right-to-use opinions
• Re-examinations
• Developing design-around strategies
• Managing infringement matters and other IP disputes
• Generating patent landscapes for product lines and development roadmaps
• Managing and developing strategies for patent portfolios
• Training personnel to help identify and protect patentable inventions
• Performing patent audits
• Reviewing, negotiating and drafting complex intellectual property, corporate and commercial agreements or other transactions
• Trade Secret Counseling
• IP due diligence
• Technology Mergers and Acquisitions

Trademarks

Our attorneys have decades of experience at some of Silicon Valley’s premier law firms. We know what a company needs to succeed as a new business and as a growing enterprise. We also know what you don’t need: high billing rates and over-lawyering. We provide the finest legal service available at rates with which start-ups and investors are comfortable.

• Preparation, filing of trademark
• Counseling on trademark selection and clearance
• Negotiating settlement of trademark disputes
• Negotiating settlement of domain name disputes