Practice Strengths

We draft and prosecute utility and design patent applications and provide patent counseling and litigation services across a full range of technologies and arts. Through our network of international affiliates, patent protection can also be assessed, secured and enforced worldwide.

In addition to prosecuting patent applications, we prepare patentability assessments and opinions; advise on validity and infringement issues; conduct patent due diligence in business combinations; identify patents that can be sold, retired or exploited to secure maximum value; and negotiate and draft all forms of patent-related agreements, such as licenses, joint development agreements and rights transfers.

Baker Hostetler also provides enforcement monitoring services and can provide client-specific and portfolio-specific Internet portals. These portals allow clients to easily and efficiently assess the status and value of their Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio for general commercial purposes and compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Leadership in Action

Patents: Realizing the value of patents

Client: ImagExpo, L.L.C., a subsidiary of SPX Corporation, a multibillion-dollar global provider of technical products and systems, industrial products and services, flow technology and service solutions

Type of Matter: Patent infringement case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Our Client's Challenge: Patent infringement suit brought by ImagExpo to enforce a patent relating to collaborative software.

The Goal: Obtain damages for past infringement.

Our Strategy: Brought suit in the Eastern District of Virginia, known as the "rocket docket," to bring suit to trial quickly.

Results: Obtained a favorable settlement for ImagExpo/SPX Corporation.

About Our Intellectual Property Team

Our team of dedicated IP lawyers and patent agents has the diverse backgrounds and core strengths required to ensure that the full spectrum of domestic and international IP is considered in securing IP and formulating IP strategies. Members of our IP team have worked as engineers and in-house patent, trademark and copyright counsel for companies and agencies as diverse as Borg Warner, Capitol Records, DuPont, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Justice Department (Civil Division, Intellectual Property) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Our team members also include adjunct IP law professors, columnists, the co-founder of the longest-running journal on computer technology and regular lecturers for the Zurich Institute of Technology, Georgetown University and George Mason University. In addition, our team members frequently speak and write for continuing legal education programs and industry events and are quoted in the press on emerging issues.

Baker Hostetler is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Licensing Executive Society (LES), The International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC), International Licensing Industry and Merchandisers Association (LIMA), as well as numerous local and regional IP organizations.

Solution
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