Intellectual Property.
An idea is only an asset once the law says it is yours. We register, license, and defend patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and we pursue infringers in step with our technology and data privacy colleagues when the copying moves online.
500+Trademark and patent filings managed through to grant
40+Jurisdictions covered through associated filing networks
92%Of oppositions and cancellations resolved in our clients’ favor
Overview
Your competitors are one filing away from owning what you built. The brand, the invention, the codebase — if it earns revenue, it deserves registration, documentation, and a plan for the day someone copies it. We build that plan before the infringement, not after.
Patent prosecution and licensing, trademark clearance and registration, copyright protection, trade-secret programs, and portfolio audits. When negotiation fails we litigate infringement and validity before courts and boards — methodically, and to the end.
Rights that travel need filings that travel: international trademark routes, PCT patent strategy, and enforcement coordinated from our Chicago office with associated counsel in London and Singapore executing the local steps. One instruction covers the whole portfolio, wherever the infringement surfaces.
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They registered the mark in nine countries before launch, then stopped the first copycat inside a month.Founder survey, 2025
A licensing deal that pays us every quarter — and it took one phone call to start.Inventor client, 2025
Recent work
Matters we're proud of
Trademark
Global brand registered across twelve markets ahead of product launch
Patent
Infringement action settled with a running royalty in our client’s favor
Licensing
Cross-license negotiated between competing device manufacturers
Trade secret
Injunction secured against a departing engineer and the new employer
Latest articles and knowledge
Trademark squatting: the first-to-file playbook that beats it
Software patents: what is still protectable and what is not
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