The Patents practice of Thelen LLP provides comprehensive patent life-cycle management services to help clients maximize the return on their investments in patented intellectual property. We acquire the broadest patent protections for our clients IP assets to lay the foundation for successful entry and growth in their unique markets.
Thelen's litigation and patent attorneys have been very active in patent litigations throughout the United States, representing both patent owners and accused patent infringers, with an emphasis on the electro-mechanical, electronic, biomedical, and computer-related areas. Thelen's patent litigation clients range from individuals to large, international corporations. (See a description of Thelen's Patent Litigation practice.)
We regularly assist clients in introducing new products by performing patent infringement, validity, and other due diligence studies. We also draw on our extensive patent litigation experience to provide analysis and recommendations with respect to possible litigation strategies, both for enforcing as well as defending patent rights.
Our services include:
Our Patents practice group regularly assists clients in a wide range of businesses such as software development, financial services, investment and commercial banking, insurance, the Internet, e-commerce, securities trading, television, music, telecommunications, medical devices, and gaming.
Thelen has one of the premier high-technology patent practice groups in the country. Our lawyers practice in the fields of computers, software, electronics, the Internet, and telecommunications, including wireless, biomedical, and other high-technology areas.
Most of the members of the Patents group have both experience and academic training in the computer science or engineering fields, and many hold advanced technical degrees in engineering and the sciences as well as have prior work experience in these fields. Our attorneys have lectured and written extensively on the subject of patent law. The Patents practice group also provides comprehensive and timely updates concerning revisions to U.S patent law and other issues on the firm's Patent Law Portal.
Thelen counsels clients in all aspects of acquiring, perfecting, and protecting the client's interests in its patents and other intellectual property, including the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and worldwide, foreign utility, design, and plant patent applications, as well as representation in reexaminations, reissues, oppositions, interferences, protests, and appeals.
In connection with corporate acquisitions and divestitures, Thelen undertakes intellectual property due diligence and advises clients concerning the deployment and sharing of protected proprietary products by newly combined or disengaged businesses. The Patents group has extensive experience in performing intellectual property audits and assisting clients with due diligence investigations. The group's attorneys assist clients in organizing and administering intellectual property committees to identify, protect, and maintain intellectual property portfolios, including policies that ensure client ownership of employee intellectual property.
We are actively involved in negotiating technology transfer and international and domestic licensing agreements, in counseling on compliance with U.S. export regulations, and in preserving client rights in technical data and software developed with federal or local government involvement.
Our extensive experience in prosecuting patents assures our clients of efficient and cost-effective prosecution services. We have been successful in saving many clients the time and expense of drawn-out litigation through the effective use of motions for summary judgment and injunctions against infringers, as well as by conducting Markman hearings, which can reduce the length of trial by establishing the issues in dispute beforehand.
When litigation is necessary, we call upon our deep experience and expertise representing clients, both as plaintiffs and defendants, in intellectual property-related litigations. Our experience in litigating intellectual property disputes includes patent infringement, trade secret, trademark, and copyright infringement matters. Thelen's attorneys have won numerous injunctions on behalf of manufacturers, retailers, and a prominent national association. They have litigated patent matters in technologies ranging from computer software to biomedical devices; from specialized optics to the gaming industry; and from computerized to Internet-based targeted consumer marketing methodologies.
To learn more about Thelen's Patents practice, please contact the following:
Frederick L. Whitmer
New York
Tel: 212.603.2074
fwhitmer@thelen.com
Robert E. Krebs
Silicon Valley
Tel: 408.282.1823
rkrebs@thelen.com
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