Intellectual Property and Technology
Our Practice - What We Do
In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, successful (and smart) companies have plans in place to protect their intellectual property, such as proprietary technology. They also implement strategies to avoid liability for infringing the intellectual property rights of others. Snell & Wilmer’s Intellectual Property and Technology team offers tactics for both, as well as a superior level of service in a professionally supportive environment.
Intellectual property attorneys at Snell & Wilmer have extensive knowledge of our clients' businesses, issues and concerns. We are equipped to assist in the most efficient manner possible. Services the group provides for our clients on a regular basis include:
- Confidentiality agreements
- Development agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Litigation and alternate dispute resolution
- Preparation and prosecution of domestic and foreign patent applications
- Preparation of trademark registration applications and copyright registration applications.
Our intellectual property attorneys are experienced, and prepared to engage as necessary, in litigation and other forms of dispute resolution to enforce our clients’ intellectual property rights and defend them against the assertion of intellectual property rights by others. Our intellectual property litigation experience ranges from representing Fortune 100 companies in significant patent litigation to resolving smaller matters through litigation or other dispute resolution techniques for medium sized and even emerging companies. Our philosophy throughout is to resolve whatever the business problem is through efficient use of legal resources.
Our Attorneys - Who We Are
Intellectual Property and Technology attorneys have technical backgrounds and degrees in a variety of technical disciplines, including all types of engineering, computer science, materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, physiology and biochemistry. They are admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., which hears all patent litigation appeals.
Our Clients - Who We Represent
Clients of Intellectual Property and Technology are spread across the United States and around the world. Their needs are as diverse as their businesses, and their requirements are as broad as their geography.
Our Experience - What We've Done
The Intellectual Property and Technology team strives to provide creative solutions for our clients in all aspects of securing, exploiting and enforcing rights in technology and intellectual property.Snell & Wilmer’s attorneys handle a broad array of intellectual property and technology matters in the areas of:
- Biology
- Computer vision
- Data processing
- Electronics
- Fiber optics
- Hardware and software
- Image processing
- Mechanical and electrical engineering
- Metallurgy
- Organic and inorganic chemistry
- Pharmacology
- Semiconductors
- Space- and aviation-related technology
- Telephony.
External Links
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Free Patents Online