Protecting your intellectual assets is vital to staying competitive and investing confidently in developing new products and services. Mintz Levin’s full-service Intellectual Property Practice can help you optimize your IP resources, whether you are an established company seeking an array of patent and trademark protections, or an emerging company seeking to secure strategic business rights.
We work with clients both domestically in the US and Europe, and internationally, and we provide comprehensive, practical advice to a wide range of emerging and established technology-based businesses. Our Intellectual Property attorneys and technology specialists work closely with our business lawyers and are committed to providing clients with dedicated service and the best advice.
Quick Facts
- Fully integrated IP practice of attorneys, technology specialists, and professionals
- Routinely represent clients before the following:
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- US Copyright Office
- UK Intellectual Property Office
- European Patent Office
- Federal and state courts
- International Trade Commission
- Regulatory and administrative agencies
- Reputation as the go-to firm for high-stakes IP litigation sealed by numerous significant litigation victories
- Experienced in complex patent prosecution, including reissues, reexaminations, interferences, oppositions, protests, and patent appeals
- Consistent international patent advisory methodology
- Recognized for excellence by the American College of Trial Lawyers, and by Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, and Super Lawyers
Areas of Focus
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Due diligence for business transactions
- Enterprise-wide IP programs
- Guidance to avoid infringing on the IP rights of others
- IP assessment and valuation
- IP audits
- IP protection strategies
- Licensing and technology transfer
- Opinion work
- Patent and trademark oppositions and appeals
- Patent and trademark prosecution
- Patent litigation
Rankings & Recognitions
- U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”: Practice top-tier ranked nationally for Biotechnology Law (2010 – 2012)
- Recognized for excellence by American College of Trial Lawyers, Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, and Super Lawyers