With intellectual property becoming an ever-increasing determinant of competitive advantage, it is critical to ensure that others are not improperly using your IP, and to defend yourself against claims that you are improperly using the IP of others.
We assist clients with the full scope of patent, copyright, trademark, false advertising and trade secret litigation. Our IP litigation clients span a broad range of companies and industries, and we are especially strong in the communications, media, technology, e-business, digital media and life sciences industries. We also have broad-based, complementary intellectual property procurement and counseling practices that enhance our litigation capabilities.
Our litigators have, on numerous occasions, been at the forefront of applying traditional intellectual property principles – particularly in the copyright area – to new technologies, media and technological devices. Finding ways to apply existing law to new technologies, and creating new law with respect to traditional intellectual property assets, are hallmarks of our creative approach to legal analysis and problem solving.
Our offices in the technology corridors of the Bay Area, Seattle and D.C./Northern Virginia, and in the media centers of New York and Los Angeles provide a broad platform from which to litigate. Although our philosophy is to staff as leanly as possible, we have the depth to litigate very large cases, involving multiple staffing levels, on accelerated schedules.
We are sensitive to the ways in which intellectual property litigation can affect other business matters. And we recognize that many of our clients are both owners and users of intellectual property assets and that positions taken in one case may have ramifications for other parts of a client’s operations. Effective communication and teamwork can make or break a case, so we work closely with in-house counsel at all stages of litigation.
We pride ourselves on finding creative solutions to avoid, whenever possible, the time and expense of protracted litigation. When litigation is the right course, we draw upon the extensive experience we have among attorneys in all our offices, and in all phases of litigation, including discovery, dispositive motion practice, trials, and appellate proceedings up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. |