Overview

Our team of professionals at Lahive & Cockfield has enhanced and safeguarded our clients’ intellectual properties, including their trademarks and copyrights, for more than 25 years. We were recently named a “Go-To Law Firm” by American Lawyer Media (ALM) and a top IP firm by Chambers USA. It is our goal to make it easy for clients to develop their trademark and copyright strategies and maintain their portfolios. We continually demonstrate our ability to evaluate options and develop budgets that meet our clients’ business objectives.  

Services

Our experience ranges from developing trademark and copyright strategies to managing U.S. and international trademark portfolios and litigating infringement cases. Our experience includes:

  • U.S. and international trademark registration programs  
  • Enforcing trademark/copyright rights    
  • Defending right to use trademarks      
  • Monitoring and challenging trademark applications  
  • Online usage of trademarks and the ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)
  • Trademark inter partes proceedings before the USPTO
  • Litigation
  • Providing freedom to use analyses for copyright issues

Representative Clients

The firm’s clients include small companies with one or two registrations as well as software and biotechnology giants, retail companies, and consumer products. We also represent many foreign companies wishing to obtain U.S. registration rights. Some of our clients include:  Atrium Medical Corporation, A.W. Chesterson Company,  BJ’s Wholesale Club, and Parametric Technology Corporation.

Case studies

 
 
Our Thinking Expands Yours

The client, a manufacturer of mechanical seals used for sealing fluids in a mechanical housing, sought to obtain a series of patents to maintain its market-leading position. » read more

News & Events

USPTO and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation (ROSPATENT) Launch Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program on September 1 » read more

Giulio A. DeConti Selected to Best Lawyers in America » read more

CAFC Invalidates Patent Covering Methods of Using Gemzar » read more

December 2, 2010
Peter Dini presents "Antibodies: Overcoming Patentability Hurdles and Claim Drafting Strategies for New Technological Developments" at the ACI Biotech Patents Conference » read more

August 30, 2010
James Velema and Peter Dini present "Patenting of Therapeutic Antibodies" to the NRC Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal, Canada » read more

August 26, 2010
Brian Trinque presents "Nonobviousness of Chemical Inventions" at 240th ACS National Meeting » read more

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