Intellectual Property
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Provided by Perkins Coie LLP
Perkins Coie’s IP practice includes more than 250 lawyers focused on IP litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent and trademark prosecution, strategic portfolio counseling, technology licensing, copyrights, and trade secret and unfair competition counseling. Its clients include companies in all technologies and industries around the world. The IP practice has extensive experience litigating patent and trademark infringement actions, internet disputes, trade secret, and gray market and anti-counterfeiting claims for companies in the online, biotechnology, medical products and electronics industries. More than 175 of Perkins Coie’s attorneys have degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and life sciences-related fields. Perkins Coie’s clients benefit from its interdisciplinary approach to matters, which combines extensive legal and technical experience with strong corporate and litigation resources in a leading technology law firm. Perkins Coie has one of the largest patent groups in Colorado, including 15 attorneys focusing on IP full-time. Our attorneys are particularly strong with electrical, software, semiconductor, Internet-based businesses, business applications and mechanical technologies.
Chambers Review
Perkins Coie is increasingly commended for its strength across patent and trademark matters, including disputes and portfolio management concerns. The firm attracts a broad client roster, including entities in the healthcare, technology and pharmaceutical sectors. The team's experience includes providing expert counsel on due diligence in relation to IP transactions and licensing matters.
Work Highlights
- Perkins Coie represented Endevica Bio in all of its patent procurement and licensing matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The attorneys at Perkins Coie are very smart, responsive and effective."
"They take a very practical approach to issues."
"The attorneys at Perkins Coie are very smart, responsive and effective."
"They take a very practical approach to issues."
Notable Practitioners
Michael Warnecke provides expert representation to clients in both patent and trademark disputes, drawing on notable strength in cross-border mandates.
David Fournier is a well-regarded patent lawyer with expertise in patent prosecution and procurement. He is chair of Perkins Coie's patent prosecution and portfolio counseling practice.
"David Fournier takes the time to understand the client's business and how the strategy fits into the overall business objective of the client. He generates very good work product."
"We are very pleased with the quality of David's work. He is very familiar with our portfolio and experienced."
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