Overview
For more than 25 years, Lahive & Cockfield has been enhancing and safeguarding our clients’ intellectual property portfolios, and we were recently named a “Go-To Law Firm” in the high-technology area by American Lawyer Media (ALM). Having addressed issues from the earliest Microsoft patents to today's start-ups preparing for acquisition, our attorneys are experienced in all methods of protecting our clients’ software. When advising clients on patents, copyrights, and trade secrets, we always consider business goals, industry and legal trends, competitors, and market conditions. Our attorneys, patent agents, and technical specialists have computer science and electrical engineering backgrounds as well as the experience necessary to understand our clients’ critical technologies and expand their ideas into valuable business assets.
Services
We advise clients on a full range of intellectual property matters including portfolio development, strategy and implementation. Our experience includes:
- Patent preparation and prosecution
- Patentability opinions
- Validity and infringement opinions
- IP due diligence
- Trade secrets
- International filing strategies
- Licensing and transactions
- Litigation and enforcement
- Trademark prosecution
- Copyright registration
Representative Clients
We represent a broad range of industries and specialty areas such as computer-aided design and modeling, information security and storage, telecommunications, and technical computing software. Our clients include Parametric Technology Corporation, Sycamore Networks, Inc., and The MathWorks, Inc.
