Software Patent Attorney Guide

Software Patent Attorneys South Carolina

Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier Intellectual Property

Nexsen Pruet's intellectual property group represents clients with a broad range of intellectual property issues, including Internet law. The attorneys who practice in this area include seasoned patent, trademark and copyright attorneys with a broad range of technical backgrounds and experience, attorneys who are experienced in intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution, and transaction attorneys who understand technology issues important to businesses, such as licensing, technology transfer, employer/employee rights in intellectual property, and issues important in the buying and selling of businesses such as due diligence and valuation.

Services Provided
The technological background and legal experience of the firm's attorneys provide the skills and insight required to find practical solutions to meet the needs of our clients. The firm offers a full range of services in intellectual property law. Representative services include:

• Preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark and copyright applications.
• Licensing, negotiating and drafting agreements regarding patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
• Arbitrating and mediating intellectual property disputes.
• Obtaining international patent and trademark protection, including Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) practice.
• Maintaining domestic and international patent and trademark portfolios.
• Identifying and protecting trade secrets.
• Identifying trade dress infringement and related unfair competition claims.
• Litigating intellectual property matters through the various court systems and in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

1441 Main Street 15th Floor 29201, Columbia, SC 29202
(803) 253-8205
(803) 253-8277 (fax)
Email: wklettnexsenpruet.com

Needle & Rosenberg PC Patent Practice

Our patent practice offers the highest level of legal, technical and scientific knowledge serving a broad range of industries. We provide our clients with focused patent prosecution in key areas: biotechnology, chemical, electronics/ software, mechanical, medical and pharmaceutical technologies.

Electronics/Software

Our Electronics/ Software Patent Practice Group has prosecuted patent applications in all areas of software, Internet and electronics, including communications technology, wireless technology, business methodologies, financial technology, retail transactions, semiconductors, digital signal processing, bioinformatics, healthcare informatics and optical networking.

We provide patent services to numerous clients in the software, Internet and electronic fields, including, Cisco, EMC Corporation, Radiant Systems, Inc., and Halliburton, as well as many smaller companies and start-ups. We also represent numerous universities and governmental agencies in software and electronic patent matters.

Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 720-2144

Womble Carlyle’s patent attorneys

Womble Carlyle’s patent attorneys are included in the Intellectual Practice Group (IP), which comprises more than 45 attorneys handling intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution and litigation; antitrust; distribution; and trade practice matters, including all related litigation. While the attorneys of Womble Carlyle’s IP Group are located in each of the Firm’s nine offices, the high technology focus of the Firm allows the entire IP Group to work very effectively as a single unit.

Attorneys in our IP Group have extensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property, representing international, national, regional and local concerns. The professional legal representation of our clients is complemented by our very personal involvement with our clients and our willingness to be flexible in the manner in which we approach our clients’ projects.

The experience of our lawyers extends to all aspects of domestic and foreign intellectual property law, including:

Detailed patent investigations and analyses in all technical areas, including providing opinions on questions of patentability, infringement, design around, state-of-the-art, and due diligence studies;

Procurement of U.S. and foreign patents in all technical areas, as well as trademark and copyright registrations;

Enforcement of intellectual property rights including patent, trademark and copyright litigation, licensing, negotiation and arbitration;

Reports and opinions on the registrability of trademarks, logos and designs, including trade dress protection;

General client counseling regarding confidentiality agreements, government research funding, university-industry relations, license agreements, corporate sponsored research contracts, development agreements, joint ventures, due diligence strategies, technology transfer agreements, software protection, and employment agreements; and

Technical assistance to general business counsel, in-house counsel, technology transfer managers, inventors, and business investors on all aspects of intellectual property, its scope and strength, title, contract and licensing matters and employment contracts, disclosures, invention submission procedures and intellectual property audits.

550 South Main Street Suite 400, Greenville, SC 29601
(864) 255-5400
(864) 255-5440 (fax)