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Specializing in intellectual property law, Gordon & Jacobson provides client representation in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related matters.
Patents
We provide comprehensive services on all issues related to utility and design patents, including evaluating and searching inventions, providing patentability opinions, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, conducting appeals to the Patent Office Board of Appeals and to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), prosecuting patent reexaminations and reissues, devising patent protection strategies, negotiating licenses and drafting license agreements, conducting freedom-to-practice studies, drafting infringement opinions, and providing litigation support (including discovery motions, practice, and procedural and evidentiary research).
In addition, we can manage worldwide patent portfolios filing and maintaining patent applications and patents in important foreign jurisdictions. We file Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications, and national stage applications in Canada, Europe, Japan and other Pacific Rim countries, South America countries, and other countries in which our clients have an interest in protecting their intellectual property.
For the convenience and edification of our newer clients, we offer the following introduction on the patent application process.
Trademarks
We provide comprehensive services on all issues related to trademarks including evaluating and searching marks, providing clearance opinions, filing and prosecuting trademark applications, initiating and responding to opposition and cancellation proceedings, managing worldwide trademark portfolios, negotiating trademark licenses and drafting trademark license agreements, drafting trademark infringement opinions, and providing litigation support.
In addition, we have taken action to curtail the unauthorized adoption of domain names which were confusingly similar domain names and trademarks owned by our clients.
For the convenience and edification of our newer clients, we offer the following introduction on the trademark application process.
Copyrights
We use copyrights to protect our clients software, semiconductor masks, and artistic and literary works. We have instituted suit to enforce a client's copyrights in view of infringement, and successfully negotiated favorable settlement when a client has been accused of infringement.
Agreements
We have extensive experience drafting both simple and complex agreements for our clients, including, licensing agreements, cross-license agreements, technology transfer agreements, software 'shrink-wrap' licenses, assignments, confidentiality agreements, and employment agreements.
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