At Patton Boggs, we believe that intellectual property protection is best approached from a strategic business standpoint. Thus, our lawyers counsel clients not only in the development and protection of IP resources, but on how best to utilize those assets to advance business interests. Our lawyers and professionals offer full-service representation in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition law, and provide the fundamental services related to each, including patent preparation and prosecution, opinions, transactions, and litigation.

Patton Boggs’ IP lawyers have the legal skills and experience to deal with the most complex technology issues in all traditional IP areas. For example, our patent attorneys have advanced degrees and/or relevant industry experience in all major technology areas, including biotechnology, biochemistry, business methods, chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering, fluidics, material sciences, mechanical engineering, medical devices, optics, pharmaceutical, physics, and telecommunications. Our technical capabilities are matched by a deep understanding of the relationship between intellectual property rights and the practical needs of business. We know that the primary reason for protecting and enforcing IP is to advance a company’s business interests and increase shareholder value, and this philosophy guides and defines our patent enforcement practice.

Because it is now common for large-scale patent litigation to have multinational components, Patton Boggs also has significant experience in the international IP arena. Our patent litigation lawyers have unparalleled experience in coordinating and directing litigation among multiple jurisdictions, working closely with foreign associates and attorneys in local jurisdictions to advance that consistent and successful positions are advanced in each forum.

Representative Matters:

• Won $28 million award and permanent injunction for Japanese biotech client against major US agricultural firm accused of patent infringement of a livestock feed additive. Landmark case was first patent infringement suit brought by a Japanese company.
• Represented a Fortune 100 company in an exclusive patent license offering related to voltage testers—culminating in the grant of an exclusive license to a leading company for a product that has become pervasive throughout the U.S. market.
• Assisted electronic publisher pioneer with subscription and license contracts for Internet publishing of journals. 
• Counseled a pioneering company on intellectual property protection, licensing and commercialization for new methods to mine coal and other sedimentary deposits from mineral reserves.
• Managed IP protection for development and commercialization of an important industrial material that has all the characteristics of lead but is safe for the environment—including licensing the manufacturing rights to develop different applications of the material.
• Enforced high fashion client’s trademark rights against importer of infringing handbags.
• Developed growth strategy and secured over $100 million in venture-backed financing for a network communications company.
• Represented inventor in an exclusive license offering and eventual sale of technology relating to a new method of weight loss for the morbidly obese.
• Obtained preliminary injunction to halt use of infringing trademarks and domain names on Internet retail site.
• Protected the intellectual property rights to an invention that harnesses energy from ocean waves for an innovative energy company.