A blend of legal, scientific and technical expertise allows us to provide a broad spectrum of legal services, including:

• Mediation, arbitration and neutral evaluations of intellectual property disputes
• Patent application preparation and prosecution
• Inter- and ex-parte proceedings in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
• Foreign patent and trademark protection
• Intellectual property and unfair competition litigation in U.S. Courts
• Licensing of intellectual property
• Trade secret protection
• Intellectual counseling for both established and start-up organizations

Areas of Expertise

Our intellectual property law experience covers many different technologies. Please contact us to ask about a specific technology if you do not see it here. A link to patent and trademark forms is included at the bottom of this section.

Electronics/Computers

• Telecommunications
• Computer hardware & software
• Signal processing
• General electronics

Physics

• Optics
• Semiconductors
• Magnetic devices
• Lasers and masers
• Acoustic wave devices
• IR detection
• Radar
• Nuclear physics/plasma physics
• Micro sensors

Mechanical Devices

• Automotive devices
• Manufacturing equipment
• Sporting goods
• Power tools
• Pumps
• Printing & copying equipment
• Medical devices

Chemistry

• Pharmaceuticals
• Genetic engineering
• Polymers
• Crystal growth
• Detergents
• Catalysts
• Inorganic/organic compounds
• Synthetics

Material Sciences

• Metallurgy
• Ceramics

Clients

Our client list is diverse, including a mix of small-to-large domestic corporations, government institutions and foreign organizations. Here are some names you may recognize:

Domestic Corporations, Academic and Government Institutions

• Applied Magnetics, Inc.
• Applied Materials Corp.
  
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  
• Central Purchasing, Inc.
  
• Eastman Kodak
  
• Hitachi America, Ltd.
  
• Honeywell
  
• Intech (subsidiary of Prudential Insurance Co.)
  
• International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.
  
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  
• Lehman Brothers Inc.
  
• Lockheed Corp. - Calcomp, Inc., subsidiary
  
• Micro Motion, Inc. (Division of Emerson Electric Corp.)
  
• Microsoft Corporation
  
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  
• Network Associates, Inc.
  
• Olympus America
  
• Prudential Insurance Company of America
  
• Raytheon Company
  
• Siemens Corporation
  
• Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research - Bellcore)
  
• 3Com Corporation
  
• WebTV Networks, Inc. (subsidiary of Microsoft Corp.)
  
• Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden (ZMD) AG and ZMD America Inc.
  
  
• Various small and mid-size organizations from established mature corporations to young start-up ventures
  

Internet & Other Start-Ups

• Netilla Networks, Inc. (business network management and support)
• Quintum Technologies, Inc. (VolP equipment)
• Unicast Communications Corp. (Internet advertising delivery and advertisement creation)

Foreign Organizations

• Dutch Defense Ministry (Netherlands)
  
• LPF Verpakkingen B.V. (Netherlands)
  
• Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan)
  
• Hitachi Maxwell, Ltd. (Japan)
  
• Koninklijke KPN NV (Royal KPN Telcom) (Netherlands)
  
• McGill University (Canada)
  
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepastnatuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO (The Netherlands)
  
• Nokia Corporation (Finland)
  
• Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. (Japan)
  
• Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Japan)
  
• Technical University of Delft (Netherlands)
  
• Toto, Ltd. (Japan)
  
• Ushio, Inc. (Japan)
  
  

(click here to view representative US patents)