Patent, Trademark and Copyright Group

The attorneys in the Patent/Trademark/Copyright (PTC) Group at Lathrop & Clark are committed to helping clients protect their investments in new ideas, products and market identities. We optimize the value of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets and aggressively protect our clients’ intellectual property. Our goal is to provide intellectual property protection strategically aligned with our clients’ business objectives.

Whether you are a high tech start-up, an entrepreneurial company, a Fortune 500 company, or a manufacturer, researcher, inventor, engineer or designer, the PTC Group can assist you in protecting ideas, products and processes that bring value to your business. The PTC Group works with clients to develop and manage their intellectual property portfolios by protecting existing intellectual property assets, developing procedures to identify and protect new inventions and other future assets and strategically mining the full value of those assets to generate revenue through licensing efforts and other means.

Our patent attorneys and agents have technical backgrounds in chemical, electrical, mechanical and civil/environmental engineering, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software and business methods, food processing, packaging materials and plastics. Our patent attorneys are skilled in U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, enforcement and defense.

Our trademark attorneys guide clients in creating strategic exclusive trademark rights and powerful brand equity, both in the U.S. and abroad. We regularly represent clients before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and are skilled in creating U.S. and foreign trademark strategies. Our attorneys collaborate with clients in protecting domain names from cybersquatters. Diligent monitoring and enforcement helps ensure that nothing interferes with the goodwill created by a trademark.

The PTC Group also assists clients in protecting, registering, licensing and enforcing their valuable copyrights in all types of works including, computer software, user interface designs, web sites, publications, architectural plans, and product designs.

The PTC Group trial lawyers have extensive experience litigating a wide range of intellectual property cases, including patent, trademark, and copyright infringement actions, trade secret misappropriation, and licensing disputes. Our experience includes aggressive pretrial settlement negotiations, jury and non-jury trials, appellate litigation in federal and state courts, mediation, and arbitration.

Through creative and strategic counseling, the PTC Group helps clients effectively solve complex issues involving all types of intellectual property. Our collective education and experience enable us to serve a wide range of businesses and industries, including pharmaceutical, medical device, manufacturing, software development, chemical, food processing, packaging, paper making, technology spin-offs, publishing, finance, insurance, advertising, art and design.

The PTC Group provides strategic legal advice to inventors and businesses, helping our clients capitalize on their existing intellectual property portfolios as well as other opportunities.

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