Firm Experience and Expertise

Partners in the firm have unique technical, legal and business experience that enabled them to play leading roles in the following areas that have earned billions of dollars for the companies they worked for and represented.

Patent Portfolio Development, Due Diligence and Acquisition
  • Energy generation and control, including hybrid and electric vehicles
  • Machine learning
  • Consumer electronics
  • Processing, control and display (including LCD) technology extensively used in TVs, VCRs, DVDs, satellite receivers, and monitors
  • MPEG, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265, and Versatile Video Coding (VVC)/H.266 technology extensively used in TVs, cell phones, media, media players, media production and distribution, PC, and professional and broadcast equipment
  • Wireless communications, such as cell phones
  • Microelectronics structures and manufacture
  • Personal care formulations
  • UV protective products for rinse-off and leave-on products
  • Micro-encapsulation, organo-silicone compounds, film formers, and light-activated molecules
  • Topical delivery of compounds in pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications
  • Industrial chemical separation techniques
  • Biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent prosecution (including therapeutic antibodies, recombinant proteins, biomarkers, methods of treatment, formulations, biomarkers, biosimilars, and agricultural biotechnology), inter partes reviews, opinions, and licensing
  • Drug discovery, diagnostics, and personalized medicine
  • Molecular biology
  • Medical Devices
  • Life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals including biologics, therapeutic antibodies, recombinant proteins, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), peptides, expression vectors, enzymes, methods of treatment, pharmaceutical compositions and formulations, methods of manufacturing biologics, biosimilars, biomarkers and diagnostics, biotech delivery systems, small molecules, compound screening, and agricultural biotechnology.
  • Chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, including pharmaceutical compositions and formulations, small molecules, compound screening, organic and inorganic chemistry, electrochemical cells, nonwovens, cosmetic chemistry, and absorbent articles.

Patent Licensing Program Development
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Imaging (including Digital Cameras, Phone Cameras and Scanners)
  • Hybrid and Electric Vehicle
  • Wireless Licensing Programs (including Cell Phones and EReader Tablets)
  • Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Technologies and Materials
  • Patent pools, such as those for MPEG and HEVC

Patent Licensing Assertion and Negotiation
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Imaging
  • Hybrid Vehicles
  • Wireless Devices and Systems
  • Automotive Components
  • Medical Electronics

Patent Litigation/IPRs
  • Biologics and pharmaceuticals
  • Electric vehicles (including hybrid electric vehicles)
  • Image compression
  • Stereoscopic image decoding techniques
  • 2D/3D compatible viewpoint rendering
  • Automotive information sharing
  • Multi-path remediation of computer networks
  • Wireless mesh networking
  • Hard Disk Drives
  • Electronic Educational Products
  • Optical Fiber Telecommunications Products
  • Medical Devices
  • Distributed Data Processing Systems
  • Compression-Molded Consumer Products

Technology Transactions
  • License and Technology Transfer Agreements
  • Collaboration and Cross-License Agreements
  • Material Transfer and Evaluation Agreements
  • Sponsored Research Agreements
  • Common Interest Privilege Agreements
  • Consulting Agreements
  • Non-Disclosure Agreements