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Areas of Concentration
- Patent and trademark litigation.
- IP monitoring.
- Registration, licensing, contracts, and transfers.
- Non-competition covenants.
- Technology company M&A.
- Finance and security agreements for technology issues.
Our noted IP clients—large, sophisticated corporations with established intellectual property portfolios, defense contractors, domestic manufacturers and more—get preeminent IP legal counsel at a fraction of the cost of New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. firms thanks to our lower overhead.
Deeply experienced in virtually all facets of IP, we provide holistic, multilayered service, even with wide-ranging issues—from review and analysis of existing IP relationships and ownership to IP monitoring, from non-competition covenants to patent and trademark litigation.
As litigators we’ve handled a full gamut of intellectual property cases in federal and state courts across the country—deftly, aggressively and successfully representing our clients in patent infringement cases, copyright infringement on both published works and design works, Lanham Act cases for both trademark infringement and unfair competition, Uniform Trade Secrets Act cases, common law non-competition claims and much more.
Representative Matters
- AP&S attorneys have represented clients across a wide range of technologies, including software, telecommunications, voice recognition, flexible computer switches with surface-mount chips, parylene coatings, process chemicals used in computer chip fabrication, biotechnology, medical products, plastics, flotation recovery devices, electromagnetic-interference suppression, and ceramics.
- Representative matters include advising clients on start-up issues, selection and registration of trade names and trademarks, technology development agreements, negotiation and drafting of employee and independent contractor agreements to preserve the employer's rights to the intellectual property, negotiation and drafting of protected technology licensing agreements, finance and security agreements for technology issues, and owner reorganizations and transfers of technology businesses or assets.
Recent Cases:
- In a trademark dispute over an offensive knock-off of a popular board game, we got ahead of the press and got the game off retail shelves, protecting the brand of our blue-chip game manufacturer.
- We won a rapid settlement in a $1 million dispute without resort to litigation. For a small apparel-manufacturer in a trademark infringement matter, our knowledge of the industry
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