Legal Practice Areas
Our Practices
Legal Practice Areas
Our legal services are wide-ranging and include domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution; global patent portfolio development with a view to strategic enforcement; post-grant proceedings; freedom-to-operate opinions; patentability, validity, enforceability, and infringement opinions; due diligence investigations; and licensing.


Global Utility Patent Procurement
- Application Preparation – Domestic and International
- Prosecution – Domestic and International
- Examiner Interviews
- PCT Filings
- National Stage Filings
- Coordination of Prosecution in Foreign Jurisdictions
Strategic IP Portfolio Development and Management
- Patentability Search and Analysis
- Landscape Analysis
- White Space Determination/Identification
- Competitor Monitoring
- Offensive/Defensive prosecution strategies
- Copying claims
- Design around advice
- Joint Research and Development Agreements
- Acquisitions
- Blocking Patents
- Inventorship Analysis
- Global Filing and Prosecution Strategies


Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
- Appeals
- Utility patent applications
- Design patent applications
- Ex Parte reexamination proceedings
- Inter Partes reexamination proceedings
- Oral Argument
- Interference Proceedings
- Derivation Proceedings
- Post-Grant Review Proceedings (PGR)
- Inter Partes Review Proceedings (IPR)
- Covered Business Method Review Proceedings (CBMR)

Industrial Design Protection
- Patentability Search
- Preparation and Prosecution of Design Patent Application
- Domestic
- International
- Strategies for Integrating with Utility Patent Protection
- Opinions
- Litigation Support
- IPR
- PGR

Due Diligence Investigations
- Acquisition/Sale of IP Assets
- Patents
- Determine scope of coverage
- Determine validity
- Confirm Ownership
- Confirm in force (maintenance fees)
- Litigation history
- Licensed technology
- Products
- Freedom to operate (FTO)
- Risk Assessment
- Litigation
- Pre-Litigation Due Diligence

Freedom to Operate Analyses
- Clearance Search and Analysis
- Strategies for Relevant Patents
- Noninfringement
- Validity
- Enforceability
- Design-arounds
- Interference
- Ex Parte Reexamination
- Inter Partes Review
- Post-Grant Review

Opinions
- Patentability
- Validity
- Noninfringement
- Infringement
- Inventorship/Derivation

Post Grant Practice
- Reissue
- Ex Parte Reexamination
- Inter Partes Reexamination
- Inter Partes Review (IPR)
- Post-Grant Review (PGR)
- Covered Business Method Review (CBMR)
- Interference
- Derivation
- Supplemental Examination

Negotiations, Licensing, and Agreements
- Contract Negotiation
- Employment Contracts
- IP Agreements
- Tech Transfer Agreements
- Licensing
- Open Source Software
Technical / Industry Practice Areas
Technical / Industry Practice Areas
We have an in-depth understanding of the technical and industry practice areas, combined with years of experience to provide our clients with comprehensive legal solutions to help them meet their objectives.
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Our office is located minutes away from the United States Patent and Trademark Office in McLean, VA.