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Domestic and International Patents · IP Strategy

Whether you are an entrepreneur, startup, growing company or investor, having the right intellectual property can make the difference between success and failure.

We are your partner in starting your company, growing your business, positioning your enterprise to have a competitive edge and increasing the valuation of your venture with well thought out IP. Maybe you are starting out with a bunch of ideas and a vision. Or, perhaps you are more established with a patent portfolio with hundreds of patents supporting your products or services. No matter what stage you are in we can help. Here are just some of the services we provide.

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Patents

Take your ideas from concept, to patent pending, to patented. No matter the technology, we have the expertise, credentials, and industry experience to identify what is of value to your business, write and file any patent application, and prosecute it… in nearly 200 countries and several geographical regions throughout the world.

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Invention Harvesting

Don’t interrupt the creative process. Don’t interrupt the hard work of designing and improving your products and services. We have advanced degrees in engineering and years of hands-on industry experience so we understand and can speak your language, no matter how technical. We routinely sit in on design reviews and engineering sessions, executive meetings, marketing and strategy discussions to transform your work into valuable patents. We do the same by reviewing engineering and design specifications, prototypes, marketing plans and product roadmaps to craft a winning IP strategy.

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Patentability Assessments

Can you get a patent? Should you? What should it cover? We’ll search the world for prior art – other patents, publications, and products or services – that are relevant to your business and innovations. We expertly analyze our findings and give you clear, plain-language, actionable advice so you can make the best decisions for your business and capitalize on your inventions.

04

Trademarks and Other IP

We can advise you and help you obtain other forms of IP protection. A strong, identifiable brand can set your company and its products and services up for success, especially when combined with patents. Sometimes keeping your technology a trade secret makes more sense than patenting it. We can help you make the best decision for your company.

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Patent Portfolio Management

One patent is good. A portfolio of them is even better. We can develop a family of patents that aligns with your business objectives. And, for those with existing portfolios, we monitor and maintain your existing patent portfolio – whether you have 5 patents or 500 – to make sure the valuable ones remain in-force and deliver for your business year after year.

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IP Business Intelligence

We scour and scrutinize the patent landscape of your industry to determine the key patent asset holders, assess threats and identify opportunities. Get answers about who your competition is, identify investment, licensing, and partnership opportunities and flag potential infringement issues. With our vast engineering background and qualifications in patent law, we can even help design around other patents and products to minimize your risk of infringing on existing IP.

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Counsel Mangement and Oversight

You might already have a law firm representing you. Just managing them can become a full-time and confusing job for you. You might not fully understand what they are doing and why. The itemized and exorbitant hourly invoices are enough to make your head spin. Are you being overcharged? Is the work they are doing really necessary? What work should they really be doing? Is there a better strategy than the path you are on? We are in the unique position to answer these questions for you and make sense of it all. For a low fixed price we can audit the work that has been done and advise you. As your partner, we can manage your outside counsel, ensuring you get the best representation possible, while at the same time saving you money from rampant overbilling and unnecessary busy work that serves only to empty your bank account.

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Investor Due Diligence

As an investor – a venture capitalist, provider of seed funding, or private equity investor – you should know exactly what what you are investing in and what your risks and opportunities are. We evaluate the IP of potential investments and portfolio companies giving you a clearer picture of your investment, the risks, and untapped potential.

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Law Firm Collaborations

Patent prosecution is complex and highly specialized. To do it right you need a professional with not only the requisite legal acumen and qualifications, but also years of hands-on engineering and business experience. Many law firms don’t have the expertise needed to provide in-house patent services. If that describes your law practice, we can help. We can lead your patent prosecution efforts and provide other sought after IP services on your behalf. Our collaboration can be on an as-needed basis, under your letterhead or ours, and we can appear on your website as your go-to IP expert. All depending on your needs. Grow your practice, retain existing clients, and attract new ones without the uncertainty and expense of hiring a new team of lawyers.

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Software Development & Hardware Prototyping

As patent professionals, we are often the first outside of your close-knit group to be trusted enough with your vision for the next great company. Your product or service many still be just conceptual. We can help turn that concept into reality. In close collaboration with our software development partner, we can get your venture or project up and running as quickly as possible – without compromising on the quality of your software. Custom cross-platform multi-device compatible mobile apps, enterprise software, or websites from prototype right through to scalable solutions for your live site… we can build it all. And, we can help with ongoing software development and IT operations, including on-going support, maintenance and feature enhancements to ensure the continuous delivery of high quality solutions throughout it’s life cycle. By working with us, your software will be infused with technical innovations while avoiding the potential land mines that exist due to other, existing, intervening IP. You can count on great software backed by patents and other forms of IP that sets you apart in your industry and provides every bit of competitive advantage.

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Startup Investment

We understand the pressures and immense challenges of starting a company. We’ve been founders of high-tech startups ourselves. You have limited resources, are on a tight budget, and need highly specialized, and expensive, services to grow, compete, and obtain funding. We want you to succeed and we want to be a big contributor to that success. For select startups, we invest in your company by providing our full range of services, for a fraction of the cost in exchange for an equity interest. We also may be able to facilitate introductions to some of the venture capitalists and investors in our network.

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Happy Clients

It’s rare that you look forward to a meeting with your patent attorney, but Elliot is a pleasure to work with. Diligent, detail-oriented, manages the process well, and makes the drafting process as lightweight as possible for the inventors. For a startup, finding time to invest in patent filings is always a challenge, so we needed an attorney who truly does the heavy lifting (I’ve worked w/ patent attorneys who toss back portions of the writing and illustration back to the inventors.) Elliot really does make the process a breeze.
CEO and FounderInternet Media Company
Elliot’s an obsessive. That may have worried his parents when he was growing up. But it also makes him the most thorough patent attorney I know.
CEOGawker
Elliot and his team are a great team of specialists that I have used to help with Trademark / Patent work. They come from a business perspective vs just a legal perspective. He cares, treats things like they are his own, has a deep understanding of what it is like to be a start up, and gives a good value for the money. They are easy to work with, make themselves accessible to their clients at all hours day or night, which truly makes them responsive to their clients. I would recommend them to anyone and have continued to use him in my most recent start up and will look to him for ongoing advice and support in the future as well.
CEO and VPCompUSA and Dell
In a couple of years that we have worked together, Elliot has helped us put together a coherent, well thought-out IP strategy. He quickly made sense of our particular ecosystem, and through numerous provisional and utility patents has proven an utter pleasure to work with. Between serious intellectual firepower and fast turnaround, I couldn’t imagine a better working relationship.
Serial EntrepreneurSeveral Internet Companies
Whenever I need advice or services related to intellectual property and the protection thereof, Elliot is the only person to whom I turn. In the entirety of my legal career – the last 10 years of which have dealt with the Internet and intellectual property – I have never met any intellectual property professional who is more on the ball, and more concerned with doing the right thing by his clients than is Elliot. (If only the PTO were as on the ball!)
I have referred many people to Elliot, and I will continue to do so. Elliot is my go-to person for these matters, and deservedly so.
Professor of LawInternet and Cyberlaw
Elliot has been helping us in the field for several years. He has been an utter pleasure to work with and has demonstrated an inordinate amount of patience with scatterbrained founders.
EntrepreneurSilicon Valley

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We have years of experience in law, engineering and strategic consulting. We have been founders of high-tech companies and have patents of our own. We have worked in venture capital. We have been engineers. We are experts working with individual inventors, startups, growing companies, venture capital, consulting groups, and law firms.

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