Patent Counsel

What This Involves

Patent work turns on whether an invention is genuinely novel and inventive, and whether protecting it is commercially worth the disclosure it requires. We advise on both. We provide patentability assessments and prior-art analysis, advise on drafting strategy and claim scope, act in prosecution, and advise on validity and infringement questions where a client's position is challenged or where a competitor's patent obstructs them.

How We Advise

We start with a candid assessment of whether the invention is protectable and whether protection serves the client's commercial position. Some inventions are better held as trade secrets. We say so when that is the case.

When to Instruct Us

Before public disclosure of an invention. When assessing a competitor's patent. When considering whether to build in a crowded technical field. When a portfolio is being valued in a transaction.