Patents

The combination of technical/scientific know-how and legal expertise from one source enables us to offer the best possible advice for your inventions in the United States and Europe.

The services we offer in the field of patents include:

UNITED STATES PATENT SERVICES

• Directly representing inventors/applicants as a United States Patent Attorney before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
• Preparing and conducing Post Grant Review, Inter Partes Review, Reexamination, and Reissue proceedings before the USPTO
• Preparing and filing Third-Party Preissuance Submissions before the USPTO
• Preparing patent opinions (such as freedom to operate, non-infringement and invalidity opinions based on United States patent law)
• Consulting with respect to United States invalidity and infringement proceedings
• Drafting and responding to Cease & Desist letters under United States patent law
• Monitoring of third-party patent applications pending before the USPTO

EUROPEAN PATENT SERVICES

• Directly representing inventors/applicants as a European Patent Attorney before the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Third-Party Observations before the EPO
• Opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO

OTHER PATENT SERVICES

• Analyzing inventions for patentability
• Drafting and filing patent applications
• Conducting pre-publication reviews of scientific publications with respect to intellectual property issues
• Conducting strategic patent planning
• Strategically reviewing and managing patent portfolios