The Firm's Intellectual Property Department provides a full range of legal representation in patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and trade secret matters. Our intellectual property practice is integrated with the firm's other practice areas, resulting in a full-service intellectual property practice within a boutique setting.

The Department is staffed with attorneys with advanced engineering and science degrees and experience in these fields. The Department's expertise spans the fields of high-tech; such as semiconductors, video conferencing, Internet, E-commerce, computer technology, bar code scanners, local and wide area networks, chip technology, laser technology, laser surgery and vision correction, radiology, radioactive protective devices, telecommunications, software; the sciences; including pharmaceuticals, environmental sciences, biomedicine, bioremediation, medical devices, healthcare, chemical compounds and formulas, nutritional supplements; engineering; such as mechanical devices, electronic devices and components, point-of-purchase displays and electro-mechanical technologies; and the arts, such as music compilations, recording industry and record labels and derivative rights, performance rights, and distribution.

The Department has extensive litigation experience throughout the United States in both Federal and State Courts. This litigation experience includes prosecuting and defending charges of patent infringement, patent enforcement, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition matters in both Federal and State Courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution forums and arbitration panels. The firm strives to aggressively litigate its cases to maximize manpower and achieve excellent results without duplicative costs and to ensure that the staffing and management of our cases is cost-effective, efficient and resourceful.

The Firm's intellectual property prosecution view is to educate our clients to recognize the importance of protecting a company's intellectual property and technology. Intellectual property is evaluated from a perspective of its novelty, uniqueness and commercial capabilities in terms of the immediate and long-term value-added benefit to a firm's intellectual property portfolio.

Patent applications are prepared and reviewed by licensed patent professionals who are admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Department fully supports all foreign applications as well. The Firm also prepares, files, prosecutes and manages numerous and diverse patent and trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office, and in foreign offices around the world. New matters are fully searched and screened to counsel clients to effectively minimize the possibility of infringement or rejection and to maximize the likelihood and ease of registration or patentability. The Intellectual Property Department also provides licensing, due diligence, and portfolio analysis counseling services.