Intellectual property is often a company’s strongest asset, one that can be protected and leveraged to gain a competitive advantage. It is critical for companies of all sizes to effectively protect and enforce their intellectual property.
Saul Ewing’s team of attorneys and patent agents with diverse backgrounds — including many with Ph.Ds. in various scientific fields — brings a holistic perspective to intellectual property matters across the U.S. and abroad in a wide variety of industries. We provide counseling, secure enforceable rights, handle transactions, and represent clients in litigation in relation to patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and the Hatch-Waxman Act/Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs), as well as advise on overall IP management and compliance, including in the following areas:
- Strategies and opinions
- Patent portfolios
- Patent prosecution and enforcement
- Patent infringement and litigation
- Transactions and licensing
- Inventorship analysis and litigation
- Copyright strategies
- Copyright registration and enforcement
- Copyright infringement and litigation
- Copyright transactions, licensing and agreements
- Trademark strategies
- Trademark portfolios
- Trademark prosecution and enforcement
- Litigation
- Trade dress
- Transactions, licensing and agreements
- Antitrust
- Drafting, filing, and prosecuting before the USPTO
- Prosecuting inbound and outbound Hague International Design applications
- Offensive and defensive counseling and advocacy
- Counseling, including identification of trade secrets and formulation of policies and procedures to protect the same
- Litigating trade secret cases
Hatch-Waxman Act/ANDA Litigation
- Serving as New Jersey and Delaware litigation counsel in all phases of ANDA cases, including at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court
- Litigating cases involving small molecule and polymorph patents as well as large molecule (biologics) patents
- Advocating for clients at emergent proceedings for restraining orders and injunctions
- Enforcing and defending IP rights pursuant to confidentiality agreements
IP Transactions & Licensing
- IP Transactions
- Conducting due diligence of IP assets that are involved in corporate transactions for investors, lenders, financiers, merging entities, and buyers and sellers of businesses
- Handling the acquisition or disposition of IP assets
- Advising on joint ventures and collaborations, including technology transfers for colleges and universities
- Licensing
- Creating and managing licensing programs
- Advising on licensing deals
IP Management & Compliance
- IP Management
- Counseling on the protection and management of IP assets
- Performing due diligence, infringement and invalidity studies, and rendering related opinions
- Developing IP policies
- IP Compliance
- Conducting regulatory reviews of advertising and promotional materials for conformance with the FTC Act and state Little FTC Acts
- Developing and registering sweepstakes, skill contests and promotional games
