Intellectual Property Procurement

Now more than ever, intellectual property assets are critical to the successful development and valuation of businesses.  At Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, we strive to obtain broad and comprehensive protection for our clients' intellectual property, enhancing value through application of our technological, legal and business expertise.  Recognizing the importance of our clients’ business investment in intellectual capital, AV&H offers clients powerful protection for their most valuable assets.

Members of AV&H’s IP procurement team have prepared and prosecuted patents in a variety of industries.  AV&H attorneys possess significant experience in a broad array of technical fields, including pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, nanotechnology, water treatment and process chemicals, papermaking chemicals, cable distribution systems, sporting equipment, medical devices, packaging, printing, consumer products, housewares and computer software and hardware.  Our patent preparation and prosecution services include:

• Performing patentability searches and preparing patentability opinions.
  
• Preparing utility and design applications for filing in the United States and abroad.
  
• Prosecuting pending U.S. patent applications, including interference, reexamination and reissue proceedings, and directing foreign prosecution.
  
• Conducting patent training programs and patent portfolio audits.

The firm’s extensive patent counseling and litigation experience enhance our ability to craft and prosecute high-quality patent applications.  By gaining an understanding of our client’s innovations and the state of the prior art early in the product development process, we build efficiencies into our drafting and minimize infringement risk through the manner in which we express the invention.  In addition, based on our deep understanding of patent litigation, we seek to maximize variable claim coverage and enforceability.  We are particularly well-suited to prepare and prosecute patent applications directed to pharmaceuticals in connection with new product launches. 

AV&H also assists clients with procuring trademarks and copyrights in domestic and foreign offices throughout the world.  AV&H attorneys review trademark search reports and advise clients on the availability of proposed marks in connection with new product launches.  When the decision is made to seek registrations, we prepare trademark applications and respond to office actions.  We are also skilled in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings.  In the area of copyright, we are adept at identifying when protection is available for the various forms of expression that constitute copyrightable works, such as packaging, advertising, computer software, website pages, data compilations, technical drawings and product designs.