Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets

Katten's Intellectual Property team provides a complete range of services for domestic and international clients in all major industries seeking to protect and benefit from their intellectual property and to defend claims asserted by others. Inventors and corporations alike turn to us for counsel regarding their innovations in biotechnology and life sciences, electrical and electronic systems, computer hardware and software, e-commerce and business methods, telecommunications, product design, and mechanical systems. 

Katten's seasoned attorneys develop, enforce, protect and defend our clients' patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret rights in jurisdictions across the United States and abroad. We partner with clients to develop global strategies and programs to safeguard and maximize the value of their intellectual property, and to audit their intellectual property assets, including domestic and international licensing and transfers of technology, to ensure that these assets are correctly identified and properly protected. We manage our clients' intellectual property portfolios, including registration and enforcement of patents, trademarks and copyrights worldwide, and administration of intellectual property agreements. Additionally, we have considerable experience representing clients in high-profile lawsuits when their most valuable intellectual property is at stake.