Patent Law

We work closely with our clients to develop comprehensive patent strategies. The best patent protection may not come from a single patent, but from a portfolio of multiple related patents, international patents, and the proactive enforcement of patent rights.

We offer a wide range of patent services to help clients of all sizes as they develop products and build their businesses. These services include:

Patent Searches & Patentability Opinions

This service is the best way to determine the likelihood of whether patent protection is available for your invention and whether it is likely that manufacturing or selling your product may infringe someone else’s patent.

Patent Audits & Patent Mapping

Patent audits are valuable for those with large patent portfolios to ensure that proper maintenance fees are paid and that title is properly recorded. Patent mapping is the best way to determine what the competition is doing and to find areas in which research should be directed to maximize the return on research expenditures.

Patent Studies & Infringement Opinions

This involves a comprehensive analysis of a single patent, including all correspondence to and from the USPTO, to determine whether your product is likely to infringe that patent.

Provisional Patent Applications

Provisional patents are an important tool in establishing the earliest date of invention when development, time, or financial constraints make deferring the preparation of a non-provisional utility application advisable.

Design Patent Applications

Design patents are a critical tool for protecting the look of your invention, which can be used in a complementary fashion with utility applications.

Utility Patent Applications

To protect the core of your idea, how your invention is made, or the structure of your invention, non-provisional utility applications are used as the intellectual property mechanism.