Representative Services
- Represent clients in trademark selection and protection for word, design and service marks.
- Represent clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in patent and trademark prosecution, patent interferences and appeals.
- Provide programs to assist clients in identifying intellectual property assets and protecting trade secrets.
- Conduct search and analysis of patents and trademarks.
- Provide patentability, validity, infringement and right-to-use opinions covering a wide range of technical disciplines.
- Represent clients in protection for trade dress and product configurations.
- Procure copyright protection for all works of authorship, including computer software, consumer products, company brochures, catalogs and literature.
- Represent clients in patent litigation.
- Participate in a wide variety of significant litigation, including that which involves
- Trademark infringement and dilution
- Trade secret theft
- Copyright infringement
- Lanham Act claims for false designation and false advertising
- Violations of state law rights of publicity
- Infringement actions involving significant patents
- Negotiate and prepare patent licenses and technology transfer agreements.
- Counsel clients and negotiate on their behalf on issues involving software licenses including source code escrows and associated maintenance contracts.
- Secure clients’ rights to worldwide intellectual property protection.
- Assist clients through a step-by-step IP asset management process to identify, package and exploit their IP assets.
- Conduct a thorough audit of clients’ existing IP assets, including both patented and as-yet unpatented discoveries; proprietary software systems; novel business methods; confidential and proprietary technologies, processes and brand assets.
- Work with clients to help them design meaningful, deployable and profitable licensing strategies.
- Negotiate and document transactions that implement a clients’ asset management program.
Representative Matters
- Prepared and prosecuted a family of patent applications covering a new class of drugs for a pharmaceutical concern.
- Provided comprehensive representation in patent and licensing matters for several companies having large patent portfolios.
- Defended one of the largest manufacturers of wedding albums in a patent infringement action.
- Defended one of the largest U.S. paper companies in a patent infringement action.
- Supported the national trial lawyer of an automotive parts manufacturer in a patent infringement action brought by the automotive parts manufacturer involving the design of a custom automobile wheel.
- Represented a tool and die company in an action for patent infringement against a plastics company.
- Defended an avionics test equipment manufacturer against claims that its equipment infringed a patent held by the plaintiff.
- Defended a company in an infringement case that involved a patent on recirculating steam ovens used for the commercial production of a fast food chicken item.
- Defended a manufacturer of various closures in an infringement and licensing dispute with a chemical manufacturer over oxygen scavenger chemicals used in cap liners for U.S. and foreign beer producers.
- Defended a company in an infringement claim for machinery to duplicate two-sided keys.
- Represented a metal stampings company in a dispute over a license of the patent portfolio for cut-resistant yarns used in the production of safety wear.
- Represented a leading valve manufacturer in a trade dress infringement case.
- Represented a chemical company and its subsidiary against charges of trademark infringement and unfair competition for use of the color blue on PVC tubing and electric junction boxes.
- Represented two chemists who were sued by a chemical manufacturer for trade secret misappropriation on the technology for copper additives to diesel fuel.
- Represented a large bank in a trademark infringement action against a bank in another state.
- Represented a chemical company against a former employee and another company in a trade secret misappropriation action involving chemical formulas and processing information.
- Represented a university’s research corporation and its licensee in a trade secret case against the licensee’s former CEO for illicit transfers abroad of liquid crystal display technology developed at the university.
- Coordinated with the U.S. Department of Justice on the criminal prosecution of several Taiwanese executives under the Economic Espionage Act.
- Represented the country’s largest vendor of computer equipment and two sales managers in a criminal investigation and private civil litigation over charges of trade secret theft from a competitor’s computerized database.
Leader
- Ash D. Patel
Partner | Atlanta
404.407.3607moc.eniHnospmohT@letaP.hsA - Meet the team
- AALL Copyright Committee
- ABA Section of Intellectual Property
- Advertising Law Internet Site
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Text 1971)
- BMI Licensing Center
- Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP)
- Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
- Claim Construction Project
- Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices
- Copyright & Fair Use
- Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Copyright Clearance Center Online
- Copyright Law and Litigation Resource
- Copyright Law of the United States of America
- Copyright Legislation (U.S. Copyright Office)
- Copyright Office Record Search – Library of Congress
- Cornell – Copyright Law
- Cornell – Patent Law
- Cornell – Right of Publicity/Right of Privacy
- Cornell – Trademark Law
- Cornell – Unfair Competition
- Crash Course in Copyright
- Creative Commons
- e Official Gazette for Patents
- esp@cenet
- European Patent Office
- European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
- FedCirc.us
- Franklin Pierce Law Center IP Information Mall
- Free Patent Tools from Maxval
- Hieros Gamos – Intellectual Property
- ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
- Index to Manual of Classification of Patents
- Intellectual Property Law Blog
- Intellectual Property Law News (Findlaw)
- Intellectual Property Links
- Intellectual Property Offices Around the World
- International Journal of Intellectual Property -Law, Economy and Management
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
- IP Insider (American Lawyer)
- IP Newsflash
- IP Spotlight
- IP Watchdog
- Japan Patent Office
- John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law
- Journal of Intellectual Property Law
- Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
- Links to Patent and Other Intellectual Property Information Resources
- Madrid Protocol Forms (U.S. PTO)
- Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
- Music Copyright Infringement Resource
- Music Copyright Page (University of Washington)
- National Association of Patent Practitioners
- National Patent Jury Instructions
- Patent Assignments on the Web
- Patent Fetcher
- Patent Information Users Group
- Patent Prospector
- Patent Alert
- PatentlyO
- Patents.com
- PCT Newsletter (WIPO)
- PLI’s Patent Law Center
- State Trademark Agencies and Databases
- Summaries of Testimony for November 29, 2000 Hearing on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Trade Secrets (Blog)
- Trade Secrets and Noncompete Blog
- Trade Secrets Blog
- Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR)
- Trademark Document Retrieval (USPTO)
- Trademark Goods and Services Classification Index
- Trademark Official Gazette
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System (TTABVUE)
- TTABlog
- Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property
- U.N. Documents
- U.S. Copyright Forms
- U.S. Copyright Information Circulars
- U.S. Copyright Office
- U.S. Department of Energy Patent Database
- U.S. Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office FOIA Reading Room
- U.S. Patent Information
- USPTO
- USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- USPTO Examiner Handbook to the U.S. Patent Classification System
- USPTO Forms
- USPTO Guide to Filing A Design Patent Application
- USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
- USPTO Official Gazette Notices
- USPTO Patent Application Information Retrieval
- USPTO Patent Classification System – Classification Definitions, Class Listing
- USPTO Patent Database
- USPTO Trademark Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
- USPTO Trademark Electronic Applications Applications (TEAS)
- USPTO Trademark Electronic Search Systems (TESS)
- USPTO Trademark Information
- USPTO Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP)
- USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure
- Washburn – Intellectual Property Law
- WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
- WIPO ccTLD Best Practices for the Prevention and Resolution of Intellectual Property Disputes
- WIPO Copyright Treaty
- WIPO Documents
- WIPO Gold
- WIPO International Classifications
- WIPO Lex – Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
- WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System
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