Practice Areas

Patents

We have extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. Our technical expertise, coupled with more than 20 years of experience practicing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and significant practical industry and professional experience, allows us to efficiently prepare and effectively prosecute applications.

We have obtained patents for our clients in the areas of computer system architectures, microprocessor architecture design, analog and digital signal processing circuits, embedded computer control systems, semiconductor fabrication and device design, RF and microwave components, electronic commerce and Internet communications systems, embedded and multiprocessor operating systems, network processor systems and infrastructure devices, and optical components and systems.

We are also experienced in appellate practice, having successfully handled appeals to the Board of Appeals and Patent Interferences.

Counseling, Licensing and Litigation

Our expertise with patents does not end with patent preparation and prosecution, but extends to optimizing IP protection, technology transfer and counseling.

We work closely with our client's top business and technical management on strategies for identifying their intellectual assets, programs for maximizing the development of inventive intellectual assets, and the selection of inventions for protection through the acquisition of US domestic and foreign patents. Our legal and technical expertise allows us to provide expert advice and to negotiate technology transfers, patent licenses, and joint development agreements.

We are frequently involved with other counsel working on behalf of a client, including their securities lawyers, accountants, venture capitalists, investment bankers, and underwriters, to identify and establish the value of the client's intellectual assets.

We also advise our clients regarding the enforcement of their patents as well as defenses to any assertions of infringement made by others. We are experienced in performing detailed analysis of issued patents, including the interpretation of claims for validity and the potential for infringement, and providing corresponding validity and infringement opinions of counsel. We have successfully negotiated on behalf of our clients to dissuade patent holders from the filing of infringement suits and, when necessary, instigated litigation to protect the interests of our clients.