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About

Provided by Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Schwabe helps clients create, build, and protect the value of intellectual property. Paired with deep industry experience, Schwabe offers a full arsenal of proactive and defensive strategies and tactics for prized intellectual assets. Ours is a track record of client relationships that outperform expectations for service and deliver results in ways not imagined possible.

Fortune favors the bold.

Whether yours is a tangible product or a breakthrough advancement, our role is to help you harness the market power of your ideas and realize the financial potential of your IP. We are one of the largest intellectual property practices in the Pacific Northwest region. We work with innovative clients around the corner and around the world. Many of us have advanced scientific degrees, hold patents of our own, and have worked in-house as IP leaders for years before coming to Schwabe. We pair legal insights and legal ingenuity with business sensibility.

Chambers Review

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Intellectual Property - Oregon

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC maintains an acclaimed IP practice capable of providing a wide range of patent, trademark, copyright, and licensing advice. Its client base includes many leading Northwest companies from a number of industries, including technology, engineering, natural resources and manufacturing, as well as healthcare and biotechnology. The department is known for the depth of talent possessed by its bench, with recognized expertise in strategic counseling and prosecution issues. The firm is further highlighted for its expanding IP litigation practice, with notable strengths in patent infringement cases and trade secret disputes.

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Work Highlights

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC represented WaveCel in a patent infringement matter against a local competitor, Studson, related to helmet technology.

Strengths

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The firm handles complex cases that require nuanced technical understanding.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

The Schwabe team brings a highly strategic perspective to product design protection, quickly identifying the features that will best support long-term brand and IP strength.

Intellectual Property respondent
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Schwabe has the capability to provide excellent support across the entire IP landscape.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

The team is responsive, efficient and always reliable.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

Schwabe is incredibly responsive and highly competent.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

The firm handles complex cases that require nuanced technical understanding.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

The Schwabe team brings a highly strategic perspective to product design protection, quickly identifying the features that will best support long-term brand and IP strength.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

Schwabe has the capability to provide excellent support across the entire IP landscape.

Intellectual Property respondent
USA

The team is responsive, efficient and always reliable.

Intellectual Property respondent
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Schwabe is incredibly responsive and highly competent.

Intellectual Property respondent
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Notable Practitioners

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Scott Eads

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Senior Statespeople

Scott Eads is extremely well regarded for his experience handling large patent portfolios and patent infringements mandates. He is particularly esteemed for his work in the life sciences and technology industries, and has experience representing clients before the district courts as well as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Scott is an excellent IP adviser.

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Nika Aldrich

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Band 2

Nika Aldrich is recommended for his expertise in representing clients in litigation arising out of patent infringement, especially with regard to computer hardware and software. As leader of the firm's IP litigation group, his expertise further spans trademark and copyright disputes.

What distinguishes Nika is his strategic discipline and composure under pressure. He quickly identifies what truly matters in a dispute and develops a focused, efficient strategy.

Nika is very commercially savvy.

Nika is smart, direct and fair.

Nika is stellar to work with. He is a very responsive, strategic thinker, who provides incredible communication and puts clients at ease through stressful times.

Nika is a brilliant litigator.

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Michael Cohen

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Band 3

Michael Cohen is a respected IP adviser, with a practice focus on trademark management and protection. He is also active in handling data licensing and trade secrets matters.

Mike is quick to provide practical advice that takes business needs into account.

Mike provides clear, pragmatic guidance that balances legal risk with operational efficiency.

What distinguishes Mike is his ability to integrate legal analysis with commercial reality.

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Steven Prewitt

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Band 3

Steven Prewitt is well-versed in advising on corporate IP strategy, managing trademark portfolios and providing counsel in relation to patent infringements. He is particularly recognized for his in-depth experience in utility and design patents.

What distinguishes Steven is his ability to combine deep technical understanding with strong commercial judgment. He does not approach IP as a series of isolated filings, he thinks strategically about portfolio positioning, competitive risk and long-term defensibility.

Steven consistently provides exceptional client service and brings a sophisticated, commercially minded approach to IP strategy. He is also highly responsive, strategic and proactive.

Steven gives excellent patent advice and representation before the patent board.

Steven is among my favorite attorneys to work with, in part due to his calm can-do demeanor and also due to his depth of experience in dealing with the USPTO.

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Intellectual Property

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Scott Eads

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Senior Statespeople

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Nika Aldrich

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Band 2

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Michael Cohen

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Band 3

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Steven Prewitt

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Band 3

Members

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Industries

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Consumer Products, Manufacturing, and Retail

Healthcare and Life Sciences

Indian Country and Alaska Native Corporations

Natural Resources

Ports and Maritime

Real Estate and Construction

Technology