Intellectual Property Protection, Prosecution & Enforcement

Intellectual property is often a company’s most valuable and strategically critical asset. For technology-driven enterprises, manufacturers, consumer brands, and emerging growth companies alike, a disciplined IP strategy is essential to protecting innovation, market position, and long-term enterprise value.

Our firm is recognized as one of the leading patent firms in the U.S. and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top patent prosecution firms. We represent one of the world’s largest global electronics companies in managing and prosecuting its U.S. patent portfolio, reflecting the scale, technical depth, and institutional trust placed in our IP practice.

Our patent prosecution practice includes preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications across a broad range of technologies, conducting invention disclosure reviews and patentability assessments, developing claim strategies tailored to competitive and commercial objectives, responding to Office Actions and conducting examiner interviews, pursuing continuation, divisional, reissue, and related application strategies, coordinating foreign patent filings and global patent portfolios, and counseling clients on portfolio development, maintenance, and optimization. We also counsel clients regarding patent landscapes, freedom-to-operate considerations, patentability, validity and third-party rights in connection with product development, investment, transactions, and other strategic business decisions.

Beyond patent prosecution, we protect, manage, and enforce intellectual property portfolios across industries, aligning innovation strategy with regulatory requirements and commercial objectives. By combining nationally recognized patent prosecution strength with litigation and transactional capability, we deliver a comprehensive IP platform designed to protect innovation, mitigate competitive risk, and sustain long-term competitive advantage.

Our experience includes:

• Patent prosecution and portfolio strategy across a wide range of technologies
• U.S. and international trademark registration and brand portfolio management
• Global IP portfolio coordination and strategic counseling
• Licensing and co-branding agreements
• IP enforcement and litigation in federal courts
• Section 337 proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)
• Technology transfer and IP-driven transactions
• IP due diligence in mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments