Strategic Approach and Value Proposition

At Lahive & Cockfield, our strategic approach to client representation is aimed at delivering maximum value for the legal dollars invested in our work. Our approach focuses on our relationship with the client and is shaped by the client’s needs.

We recognize that a close client relationship and superior service yield better cooperation and optimal results, so we emphasize among our lawyers and our staff the importance of:

• The relationship with the client
• Superior customized service
• Legal workmanship and creativity

The Client Relationship

As committed partners in interactive relationships with you, our clients, we pledge to be:

• Proactive (anticipating opportunities as well as problems and solutions)
• Responsive (returning calls and e-mails quickly and acting on projects with dedication and a sense of urgency)
• Creative (developing legal solutions that promote your business objectives and are tailored to fit your budget)

We are also committed to:

• Understanding your business
• Understanding your technology
• Building your intellectual property assets
• Working collaboratively to achieve the goals of your team

Lahive & Cockfield recognizes that communication is the cornerstone of a productive relationships with our clients and that listening is at least half of the communications process. We also understand that good communication is not just responsive but is focused on meeting your needs and helping you to achieve your goals.

That is why we foster communication with our business partners and with those on the other side of the table, leading to win-win solutions rather than adversarial breakdowns. We are prepared to do battle for you when necessary; we know how to win in court, but we don’t bring a battlefield mentality to our daily work.

Superior Customized Service

We are dedicated to producing intellectual property solutions that are not just well-grounded in law but are geared to fit your overall strategic needs. We understand that implementation of an intellectual property strategy can be demanding for companies with limited resources, and we know that execution of such a strategy can be complicated yet is critical for a company with global reach into numerous markets and jurisdictions.

That is why our goal is to help you develop or execute an IP strategy that is right for you. Whether you are a start-up enterprise or a global titan, we can help you achieve your goals through the development or enhancement of an IP infrastructure within your organization that will form a foundation for your future success.

A good customized infrastructure includes:

• A functional patent and trademark strategy group focused on practical ways of protecting and leveraging the value of your intellectual property
• A system for documenting and tracking your intellectual property
• A system for educating your employees on their roles in preserving, protecting and maximizing the value of your intellectual property assets
• A system for making timely decisions about your intellectual property to implement your IP strategy, prevent the loss of key rights and enhance the value of your company

Developing or enhancing an infrastructure that is right for you should effectively:

• Protect your current revenue streams that depend on intellectual property rights
• Build upon your revenue streams by creating opportunities for licensing or sale of your valuable properties
• Open the door to future partnerships for the joint development or commercialization of intellectual property assets
• Pave the way and remove any obstacles to key relationships with third parties who will scrutinize your intellectual property, such as prospective lenders, venture capitalists, merger candidates and joint venture prospects

With our depth of experience, we can add value to established structures developed by large organizations. We also can build initial infrastructures for early-stage companies that need help developing IP strategies and building IP estates, as well as pursuing legal rights and remedies associated with their intellectual property. Among other things, we can help you design a customized strategy that will:

• Aggressively build out a valuable patent and trademark portfolio
• Protect key routes to commercialization of your technologies and marks
• Strengthen your intellectual property so it will stand up to the strict due diligence testing of inventors, competitors and future commercial partners

Legal Workmanship and Creativity

We offer to you the benefit of many decades of collective experience in constructing patent and intellectual property portfolios that have successfully withstood the scrutiny of due diligence teams, litigation attacks and other pressure tests.

Our team has experience working with start-up companies, individual scientists and inventors, venture capitalists, and hedge funds, as well as the largest public companies, traditional lenders, federal and state regulators, and overseas associates.

It is our pledge to draw from the multifaceted sources of our vast experience to expand your intellectual property protections and opportunities. We combine a workmanlike approach to every project with results-oriented creativity, so that you can not only withstand attacks by competitors but also thrive in a global marketplace that increasingly rewards institutions with unique and functional IP portfolios.

A patent portfolio, in particular, should have:

• Generic breadth for wide application
• Strong, tight specific coverage for specific applications
• Carefully drafted, hierarchical matrices of claims for strongest protection over time

We are experienced lawyers who know how to produce that work, and we appreciate the creative challenge of doing it in different competitive environments for different companies in a variety of industries.

At Lahive & Cockfield, we know that we must work creatively to maximize the protection and benefits of an intellectual property portfolio within the constraints of time and budget pertinent to each client. We love the challenge and we love the work.