Patents
Squire Sanders intellectual property practice group includes lawyers with engineering, science and other technical degrees who are admitted to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office and support the firm’s offices throughout the world.
Our industry expertise includes experience with the Internet, business methods, electronic commerce, wireless devices and protocols, semiconductor devices, electronics, computer hardware and software, building materials, chemicals, chemical processes, telecommunications, explosives, oil field equipment and services, data and image processing, consumer appliances, medical devices, plastics and rubber extrusion, pharmacology and biology.
We help clients find the best way to protect their innovations and enforce their proprietary rights to the fullest extent possible. We also consider how patentable technologies relate to a business plan, helping to create and implement strategies – including licensing and other technology transfer agreements – to realize their full market value. Our intellectual property lawyers move efficiently and effectively to protect clients’ rights against potential infringement and defend our clients against wrongful charges of infringement.
Our services involve preparing and prosecuting patent applications around the world, including appeal and interference proceedings; reissues and reexaminations; preparing patentability opinions; maintaining the patent; extending the patent term; and preparing infringement and validity opinions in anticipation of potential disputes.