Major Practice Areas
- Screening of design applications
- Partial design registration
- Set or suit design registration
- Secret design registration
- Animated or dynamic design registration
- Multiple design applications
- Typeface/font design registration
Application and Registration
- Consultation on design applications and registration
- Preparation of drawings and representations for design filings
- Filing applications for design registration
- Submission of opinions and responses to office actions
- Prosecution and registration of design rights
- Post-grant management and annuity maintenance of design rights
Disputes, Trials, and Litigation
- Provision of information on patents, utility models, and designs
- Appeals against refusals of design applications
- Infringement analysis and expert opinions
- Cease-and-desist letters and infringement warnings
- Responses to third-party challenges and disclaimers
- Drafting of legal briefs and arguments
- Invalidation trials for registered designs
- Correction trials and combined correction/invalidation proceedings
- Licensing trials and trials on scope of rights
- Criminal complaints regarding infringement
- Civil litigation for infringement and damages
Overseas Applications
- National applications under the Paris Convention (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, etc.)
Technology Transactions and Licensing
- Brokerage of patents, utility models, and design rights
- Licensing negotiations and brokerage services
- Recordation of name changes and ownership transfers
- Recordation of prior rights and security interests
- Registration of license agreements