Intellectual property works best as a portfolio, not a pile of unrelated filings. We help you see how patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets reinforce each other and where each one actually earns its keep. Whether you are an early-stage company protecting a first product or an established business cleaning up years of ad hoc decisions, we build an IP strategy that matches what you are trying to do and what you can afford.
Strategy Across All IP Types
Different rights protect different things, and the smart move is usually a combination. We help you cover inventions with patents, brands with trademarks, creative and software work with copyrights, and confidential know-how with trade secrets, then make sure those choices fit together. Sometimes the right answer is to keep something secret rather than patent it; sometimes it is the reverse. We walk through those trade-offs with you so the decisions are deliberate.
Building Your Portfolio
A useful portfolio comes from steady, prioritized choices rather than filing everything that moves. We work with you to spot what is worth protecting, decide where to file first, manage prosecution, and keep maintenance and renewals on track so nothing lapses by accident. We also prune what no longer serves the business, because paying to maintain rights you will never use is just a recurring tax on a decision nobody revisited.
IP In Diligence And Deals
When you raise money, get acquired, or take on debt, your IP gets examined closely. We run IP due diligence that checks who actually owns the assets, whether they are valid and enforceable, what encumbrances exist, and whether you are free to operate. On the other side of the table, we get your house in order before investors or acquirers look, so chain-of-title gaps and missing assignments do not surface at the worst possible moment.
Counsel That Knows The Tech
Good IP strategy depends on understanding the underlying technology, and that is where the firm started. Our attorneys came out of engineering, so the conversation about what is novel, what is protectable, and what is worth the spend happens at the right level. You get advice grounded in how your product actually works, not a generic checklist applied to a business the lawyer never really understood.