Intellectual Property
Protecting Competitive Advantage at Every Turn
A focused, tight-knit team of highly experienced patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright lawyers, Carrington Coleman counsels and strategically protects clients that vary from innovative startups to global multinationals. Our clients know that our Intellectual Property (IP) practitioners communicate, execute, and strategize with a depth of experience and agility while offering a value proposition at mid-market rates that few firms can match. For many companies, IP is a vital business asset, and Carrington Coleman’s IP team can help procure and protect your IP endeavors and investments. Our IP attorneys have deep technology roots and are passionate about solving our clients’ most complex IP challenges.
In addition to our significant patent and trademark litigation practice, our team has a significant trade dress practice protecting and enforcing the distinctive visual appearance of a product or its packaging — elements that form consumer impressions and can shape and preserve your brand and long-term brand value.
When it comes to technology, we speak your language. Several of our IP attorneys have technical degrees and decades of experience representing some of the world’s leading semiconductor, telecommunications, software, automotive, and pharmaceutical companies, among many other industries. Whether you are an early-stage start-up or a multinational company with a broad IP asset portfolio, Carrington Coleman’s IP team can protect your interests and help maximize the value of your investment in innovation.
Whether we’re litigating a dispute, prosecuting a patent application, or protecting your assets, clients rely on our ability to distill and communicate extraordinarily complex technical concepts to audiences ranging from engineers and technical experts to judges and laypersons on a jury. Clients know they can turn to us to comprehend, navigate, and translate complex technical issues, helping them realize the full value of their brands, creative works, discoveries, and inventions, or when necessary, defend against claims of others.
Learn more about our Technology & Innovation practice.
Areas of Focus
- Litigation - Litigating patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes in federal courts around the country; challenging and defending patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in post-grant patent proceedings, including inter partes reviews; representing parties before the International Trade Commission; and representing parties in alternative dispute resolutions
- Trademark and Branding Portfolios - Managing domestic and global trademark portfolios, including selection, investigation, common law protection, registration (filing, prosecution, appeals if necessary), maintenance, renewal, and international management through Treaty or with foreign counsel
- Patent Portfolios - Managing patent portfolios, including acquisition (preparation, prosecution, appealing if necessary), maintenance, disposition, and monetization
- Licensing and Transactions - Negotiating a wide range of licenses, technology transfer transactions, joint development agreements, and other technology-related transactions
- Trade Secrets - Advising clients in developing and protecting proprietary rights and investigating and defending against claims involving such rights by others
- Copyrights - Managing common law protection, registration (filing, prosecution), and disposition
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Drafted and/or prosecuted hundreds of patent applications over a 35-year period for a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company
- Defending major bank in five-patent infringement lawsuit against numerous aspects of the bank’s online banking operations. Successfully obtained stay of litigation pending the outcome of IPR proceedings challenging the asserted patents, three of which have resulted in final written decisions finding all asserted claims unpatentable
- Lead counsel in utility and design trademark/trade dress and patent litigation matters, including in federal district courts in Texas, Mississippi, New York, and before the ITC, PTAB, and TTAB
- Represented as outside counsel for managing domestic and foreign trademark portfolio for a Fortune 250 corporation
- Represented major computer manufacturer in a patent infringement case relating to mainframe network architectures
- Won bet-the-company jury trial between two healthcare technology startups on claims including theft of trade secrets
- Obtained a defense verdict and take-nothing judgment in favor of clients in a case involving a covenant not to compete and claims for misappropriation of trade secrets and unjust enrichment
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