USA Guide 2026 : Rhode Island
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Provided by Hinckley Allen
Intellectual property is often a company's most competitively sensitive asset, and protecting it demands counsel that understands both the law and the business behind it. Hinckley Allen's Intellectual Property team serves individual entrepreneurs and large corporations alike, helping clients protect, manage, and strategically leverage their IP portfolios across domestic and international markets.
The team integrates seamlessly with the firm's broader capabilities, including corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfers, and commercial agreements, ensuring that IP strategy is developed in alignment with business goals.
When disputes arise, the team brings extensive litigation experience across patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters in courts throughout the United States. The approach is deliberate: understanding the risks, costs, and potential outcomes, and litigating only when it serves the client's broader objectives.
Services span the full range of IP needs, including:
The goal is always the same: protect what matters, and position clients to grow.
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Hinckley Allen’s intellectual property team advises domestic and international clients on protecting, managing, and leveraging IP assets. The practice group is noted for aligning IP strategy with broader commercial objectives, including corporate transactions, licensing, and technology matters, and for its experience handling patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret disputes, including litigation.
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Hinckley Allen represented Emissive Energy Corporation in intellectual property matters, including developing a patent portfolio for ergonomically designed pistol‑mounted flashlight technologies.
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Hinckley Allen's pragmatic, business-oriented approach and commitment to the regional innovation ecosystem make them a true strategic partner.
The attorneys at Hinckley Allen are extremely responsive and qualified.
Any IP issues we bring to Hinckley Allen are handled proficiently and to our satisfaction, no matter how complex the idea we want to patent or how lengthy the IP license negotiation.
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Christine Bush is recognized for her impressive trial work, focusing on patent, trademark and copyright disputes. She is vice chair of the litigation department at the firm.
Without David Joseph's assistance, we would be lost in the complexity of intellectual property matters.
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
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