Smith Keane LLP handles all types of intellectual property including:
Patents →
Trademarks →
IP Litigation →
Copyrights →
Proprietary Information →
PATENTS
Smith Keane provides comprehensive patent services, including:
- Patentability searching and opinions
- Provisional patent applications
- Non-provisional patent applications
- Patent drafting and prosecution
- Design patent applications
- International patent applications, including PCT applications and Hague design applications
- Patent portfolio counseling and development
- Patent licensing
- Freedom to operate searching and infringement opinions
- Patent reexamination proceedings
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings
- Patent infringement litigation
- Patent dispute mediation
TRADEMARKS
To protect your brand, Smith Keane’s services include:
- Trademark availability searching and opinions
- Trademark applications
- Trade dress applications
- Trademark prosecution
- International trademark applications, including Madrid filings
- Trademark portfolio counseling and development
- Trademark licensing
- Trademark clearance searching and infringement opinions
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings, including cancellations and oppositions
- Trademark infringement litigation
- Trademark dispute mediation
IP LITIGATION
From conflict identification to resolution, Smith Keane’s provides a complete slate of IP litigation services, including:
- IP infringement identification and analysis
- Cease and desist letters
- Patent litigation
- Trademark litigation
- Copyright litigation
- Trade secret litigation
- IP dispute resolution, including mediation
- IP litigation co-counsel and litigation support/counseling
- IP litigation local counsel
- IP litigation appeals
- United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) administrative proceedings including reexamination proceedings
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings, including inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR)
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings, including cancellations and oppositions
COPYRIGHTS
Smith Keane can help protect your creative expressions by helping you with:
- Copyright applications
- Copyright prosecution
- Copyright portfolio counseling and development
- Copyright licensing
- Copyright infringement opinions
- Copyright infringement litigation
- Copyright dispute mediation
PROPRIETARY INFORMATION & TRADE SECRETS
Smith Keane offers services to protect your proprietary information, including:
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Non-compete agreements
- Trade secret identification
- Information access controls
- Business process counseling
- Educational workshops
- IP related employment litigation and mediation
- Confidential information dispute litigation and mediation
- Trade secret theft litigation and mediation
