Patterson IP Law

Managing Shareholder: Ryan D. Levy

Number of Shareholders: 5

Number of Attorneys: 14

Patterson IP is a premier intellectual property firm consistently ranked top tier in the region. Patterson IP is a boutique intellectual property firm in Tennessee, serving clients locally and internationally on all matters of IP law.

Patterson IP serves clients worldwide to protect, advance, and enforce rights in their inventions, innovations, ideas, and brands.

We advise on all aspects of intellectual property. Through custom-tailored legal services, we help businesses and individuals develop, protect, enforce, and defend their patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and technology.

Protection

Patterson IP provides extensive, all-inclusive legal protection services for all types of intellectual property, including names, logos, brands, inventions, designs, specialized know-how, and other valuable innovations and ideas.

Our team of highly specialized attorneys have deep knowledge of both intellectual property law and industry-specific subject matter, skillfully providing protection through these core services:

• Patents
• Trademarks and Branding
• Copyrights
• Trade Secrets
• Rights of Privacy and Publicity
• Licensing
• IP Portfolio Management

Litigation

The Patterson IP litigation team includes attorneys with advanced degrees and professional backgrounds in chemical and biochemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, life sciences, and civil engineering. Our team’s technical strengths complement our attorneys’ legal experience in comprehensively and efficiently represent clients’ interests when their intellectual property is at stake.

Our IP Litigation Services:

• Patent Infringement
• Trademark Infringement
• Copyright Infringement
• Inventorship Disputes
• Disputes in the International Trade Commission, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
• Trade Secret Misappropriation
• Unfair Competition
• Breach of Contract
• Domain Name & Cybersquatting Disputes
• Breach of Privacy
• Unauthorized Use or Disclosure of Personal Information
• Right of Publicity Misappropriation

International

From Patterson IP’s base in Nashville, Tennessee, the experienced Patterson IP team provides intellectual property protection to clients around the globe, helping clients secure foreign patents and trademark registrations, obtain ITC § 337 exclusion orders blocking importation of counterfeit goods, manage international licensing with foreign partners and manufacturers, and more.

Our attorneys are well-versed in international patent law and are intimately familiar with the PCT filing process. We help clients strategize where and whether to file as well as prosecute PCT applications. We also work on international intellectual property law issues with foreign counsel to ensure clients’ patents are appropriately styled and assist with the direct filing of patent applications in foreign patent offices.

Additionally, Patterson IP acts as a Global IP Law firm helping clients obtain and enforce their trademarks worldwide. Our trademark attorneys have broad experience with the Madrid Protocol and can advise on international trademark registration and enforcement.

Counseling

Patterson IP is committed to helping our clients with all aspects of intellectual property law matters, from launching a new brand or product, to acquiring an IP portfolio, to auditing your own intellectual property, to evaluating whether a competitor’s trademarks and patents may affect your business.

Our IP counseling services:

• Infringement analysis
• Examining & analyzing IP portfolios of target companies
• Conducting IP searches
• Freedom-to-operate opinions
• Advising on comprehensive IP strategies
• Identifying & procuring potential copyrights, trademarks, patents, & trade secret

Transactions

Patterson IP assists clients and their general counsel in all aspects of Intellectual Property (IP) Transactions. Our attorneys help navigate the challenges of IP related to transactional law, from licensing and development to acquisition and divestiture.