Patents

The Lanier Ford registered patent attorneys regularly assist clients in acquiring and protecting patents and exploiting their economic value through licensing. Among other services, they can—

• Provide patentability opinions.
• Prepare and file patent applications in the United States and abroad.
• Create and negotiate licensing agreements.
• Enforce patents and other intellectual property rights through litigation.
• Provide opinions about the validity or infringement of patents when a competing organization alleges that your organization has violated its patent rights.
• Work with organizations to develop strategies for managing patent portfolios.
• Monitor pending and existing federal, state, and international applications, registrations, and renewals for patents.
• Watch competitors to keep you abreast of their activities in the area of intellectual property.
• Provide freedom-to-operate opinions to determine whether or not your prospective product or invention is likely to infringe another patent.

The Lanier Ford patent attorneys have significant experience in a broad range of technical fields, including the following:

• Computer hardware and software.
• Chemical formulations.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Telecommunications.
• Electro-mechanical devices.
• Mechanical devices.
• Metering and testing equipment.
• Optics.
• Opto-electronic equipment.
• Industrial machinery.
• Radar.
• Digital signal processing.
• Ultra-wideband radio frequency applications.
• Trucking and transportation.
• Plasma applications.
• Biodiesel processes.
• Energy generation.
• Medical devices.

Our registered patent attorneys routinely advise our existing clients, as well as newly formed and emerging businesses.

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