How well a company develops and manages its patent portfolio can be an important determinant of business success or failure. Patents can provide important competitive advantages in the market; they can be critical assets in financing or selling a company; and they can create healthy revenue streams to supplement operating revenue. Conversely, companies that lack efficient patent strategies can find themselves outmaneuvered by competitors or blocked outright from key markets.
Davis Wright helps clients obtain patents and formulate patent-related business strategies structured to their particular needs. Our diverse team of licensed patent lawyers and agents can efficiently handle patent prosecution, licensing and litigation in a broad range of technologies, with particular strength in life sciences, medical devices, telecommunications, software, computers, e-commerce, optical scanning, food processing, recreational equipment, sporting goods and toys. We are passionate about technology and inventions and genuinely enjoy helping inventors realize the benefits of their work.
We routinely assist our clients with developing patent licensing strategies, either separate from or as part of a patent enforcement strategy, and provide due diligence services to companies that are considering investing in or acquiring other companies. We also work closely with clients in post grant proceedings such as reexaminations and oppositions as part of an overall patent enforcement or defense strategy.
In addition to assisting our corporate clients, Davis Wright’s patent group is also well-known for its strength in helping research institutions and other entities with technology transfer operations – whether as a supplemental legal resource, or as a nearly comprehensive outsourced technology transfer office.
Selected Experience
Patent portfolio management for SanDisk Corporation
Our patent practitioners in the San Francisco office have represented SanDisk since 1988, around the time it was founded, and have helped SanDisk build a patent portfolio that has been widely licensed. SanDisk has received annual patent royalties of roughly one-half billion dollars for the last couple of years, almost all of which were generated from this patent portfolio that our group obtained. This portfolio withstood many challenges by competitors in major ITC and District Court litigation. We continue to help SanDisk in the procurement, licensing and enforcement of their patents. (Ongoing)
Technology transfer for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Handling domestic and foreign patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing, and a variety of research-oriented agreements for a wide range of biotechnical and medical technologies developed at Cedars-Sinai. Supporting Cedars-Sinai's technology transfer operations, and providing strategic counseling to enable Cedars-Sinai to protect, leverage and enforce its intellectual property assets. (Ongoing)
Patent services for AT&T Corporation
Prepared and prosecuted patent applications for AT&T regarding telecommunications technologies. (2009)
Patent services for California Institute of Technology
Preparing and prosecuting patent applications for Caltech in areas such as neural prosthetics, petroleum engineering and nanotechnology. (Ongoing)
Patent services for Pacific Market International
Prepare and prosecute patent applications for PMI's Stanley, Aladdin and MiGo brands of consumer products. (Ongoing)
Patent portfolio management for Voxeo Corporation
Our San Francisco patent practitioners manage the portfolio for Voxeo—a leading provider of premise-based and hosted interactive voice response (IVR) and VoIP applications—which has a seminal patent on running voice applications based on Web-type instructions (voiceXML) posted on a Web page. (Ongoing)
Patent services for Clearwire Corporation
We prepare and prosecute patent applications for related to wireless computer networks, and support intellectual property due diligence efforts in connection with corporate financing and business transactions. (Ongoing)
Patent services for Leviton (Voice and Data Division)
We prepare and prosecute patent applications relating to the company's data and telecommunications products. (Ongoing)
Patent services for Stanford University
Preparation and prosecution of patents for Stanford since 1985. Have procured patents regarding photonic crystal technologies, carbon nanotube, and capillary electrophoresis separation and detection technology that has been licensed to a large biomedical instrumentation company. (Ongoing) |