Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Intellectual Property Department, with nearly 90 attorneys and professionals, is one of the largest intellectual property practice groups found in a full-service law firm. Our practice covers a broad spectrum of services including strategic IP portfolio services, prosecuting and litigating patents, trademarks and copyrights, enforcement of patents and trademarks and defense of IP enforcement actions.
Several of our IP lawyers are also listed in the 16th edition of
The Best Lawyers in America® (2010). Our IP practice advises and helps a diverse and multinational roster of clients. From electrical and mechanical engineering, to chemistry and microbiology, to computer technology and business methods – our attorneys’ backgrounds and experience in several technical disciplines position us to meet a variety of sophisticated business and inventorship needs.
Some recent rankings about our IP practice include:
- Represented over 14,000 inventors from at least 43 states and 16 countries
- Handled over 50,000 trademarks globally
- 11th among all U.S. law firms in number of USPTO applications submitted in 2008 (Trademark Insider, May 2009)
- Over 11,000 original patent applications prepared in various scientific, technology, and industry fields
- Over 50 registered patent attorneys and agents
The firm’s Intellectual Property Department has experience assisting clients in the following areas:
- antitrust
- business methods
- franchises and product distribution
- information technology
- licensing
- interferences
- internet issues
- opinions
- rights of publicity
- technology transactions
- due diligence
- trade dress
- trademarks
- trade secrets
- advertising & marketing issues in emerging media
- brand management issues
From our 11 U.S. offices and together with a network of foreign legal counsel, we handle significant intellectual property portfolios for clients in a wide variety of businesses, industries, products and services sectors. These services include litigating in jurisdictions and forums throughout the U.S and in many foreign countries.
Our Washington, D.C., Intellectual Property practice enhances the effectiveness of our firm’s efforts on behalf of our clients before the USPTO, including interference practice, petition matters, and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) matters. We also counsel foreign and domestic clients as well as trade associations on international trade matters, including matters before the USITC, Section 337 Investigations, Import & Export Laws, Customs, and anti-competition assistance.
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