We serve a diverse client base ranging from individual inventors to universities and emerging companies to multinational corporations. Our clients are drawn from a broad spectrum of industries including life sciences, technology and research labs, financial services, health care, higher education and manufacturing, to name a few. Our attorneys represent these clients before the U.S. P.T.O., the U.S. Copyright Office, in federal and state courts and before regulatory and administrative agencies. In addition to extensive involvement with trademark registration, Stevens & Lee has successfully represented clients in copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent infringement and misappropriation actions and proceedings. They also work with a network of international counsel to achieve your business objectives abroad.

The primary intellectual property services we provide includes:

• Obtaining, licensing and enforcing intellectual property rights for a variety of business transactions
• Protecting patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and domains
• Assisting clients in ‘branding’ and other marketing-related activities
• Working with clients to establish intellectual property protection programs
• Conducting intellectual property audits
• Managing intellectual property portfolios
• Advising clients on how to avoid infringing third party rights and related risks
• Assisting clients in copyright protection and licensing compliance issues, including the creation of internal company polices on the use of e-mail, the Internet and company-provided software and hardware by company employees
• Developing special programs to commercialize intellectual property
• Structuring and closing joint research and development partnerships and alliances
• Negotiating and litigating contracts and disputes involving intellectual property

For more information on this practice email Richard J. Pinto or call him at 609-987-6650.