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Practice Areas Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property

Innovation protection that helps businesses turn ideas and brands into durable assets.

Practice Area Introduction

From idea to market to enforcement, we help guide entrepreneurs and companies to secure, commercialize, and defend the intellectual property that drives enterprise value, in the United States and worldwide.

Our Expertise

Our Intellectual Property team represents brand owners, technology companies, manufacturers, retailers, and service providers in virtually all commercial fields in the full spectrum of IP counseling, transactions, and disputes. We guide owners, executives, and in-house counsel from clearance and registration to licensing, portfolio management, and enforcement. The group advises on trademarks and copyrights, prepares and prosecutes applications, manages worldwide IP portfolios and handles administrative proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. Clients lean on us to design practical strategies that fit each client’s unique business objective first and utilize the legal mechanism where it benefits that objective most efficiently and effectively.

Day to day, we clear marks, file, secure and maintain registrations, and structure agreements that keep know-how secure. We draft confidentiality, consulting, employment, non-competition, and software arrangements with proprietary restrictions tailored to the technology and the risk profile. When growth requires it, we license patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets and negotiate the terms that align with expansion and revenue targets. For franchisors, we prepare and register franchise disclosure and related documents in states where required, keeping offerings compliant as markets evolve.

Disputes happen, but they do not have to define the business. Our lawyers resolve trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters in federal and state courts and before tribunals such as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. When the facts and stakes demand it, we litigate across the country and in specialized forums including the United States International Trade Commission.

Our Approach

We are structured for solutions. That starts with understanding the client’s business model, competitive landscape, and risk tolerance, then designing an IP plan that supports growth without unnecessary cost. For emerging companies, that may mean phased filings, licensing that accelerates distribution, and practical policies for trade secrets and data. For mature companies, it may be portfolio rationalization, global brand expansion with foreign counsel, and agreements that unlock revenue while preserving control. When litigation is unavoidable, we develop a record that advances the merits and the business case in equal measure, using early case assessment to focus resources where they matter and alternative resolutions when they can deliver a better outcome.

Clients also benefit from our reach across the firm. We frequently partner with corporate and international business lawyers on mergers, asset deals, joint ventures, and cross-border arrangements to diligence and transfer IP, align ownership and use rights, and integrate technology and brand assets post-closing. That collaboration helps define IP value, prevent value leakage and ensures IP supports the transaction thesis from day one.

How We’re Different

Big-Firm Skill, Boutique Access

We offer the legal knowledge and national forum experience of larger firms with the access, responsiveness, and budget discipline of a focused team.

Litigation Strength, Business Sense

Our lawyers routinely appear in federal courts across the country and before the TTAB and ITC, yet we remain pragmatic about when to fight and when to structure business-forward resolutions.

Scalable Portfolios, Sophisticated Deals

Hundreds of trademark and copyright filings; expertly negotiated software, data, technology, and joint venture agreements.

Coordinated Anti-Counterfeiting Strategy

From U.S. Customs seizures to swift e-commerce takedowns, we protect brands across channels.

Proactive Client Education

Seminars and publications equip client teams to act decisively, reducing risk and resolving issues before they escalate.

How We’re Different

Big-Firm Skill, Boutique Access

We offer the legal knowledge and national forum experience of larger firms with the access, responsiveness, and budget discipline of a focused team.

Litigation Strength, Business Sense

Our lawyers routinely appear in federal courts across the country and before the TTAB and ITC, yet we remain pragmatic about when to fight and when to structure business-forward resolutions.

Scalable Portfolios, Sophisticated Deals

Hundreds of trademark and copyright filings; expertly negotiated software, data, technology, and joint venture agreements.

Coordinated Anti-Counterfeiting Strategy

From U.S. Customs seizures to swift e-commerce takedowns, we protect brands across channels.

Proactive Client Education

Seminars and publications equip client teams to act decisively, reducing risk and resolving issues before they escalate.

Key Takeaway

We align IP strategy with business strategy to build, monetize, and defend value—efficiently and everywhere it matters.

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