Software Patent Attorney Guide

Software Patent Attorneys Wisconsin

Patterson Thuente Skaar & Christensen LLC Patent Attorneys

Patents provide owners with the exclusive right to prevent others from making, using, offering, or selling their protected items and ideas.

A large number of companies, universities and individuals are applying for and licensing patents. At the same time, more businesses are participating in international commerce than ever before. With this increased business activity, working with skilled patent counsel has never been more critical.

In addition to extensive experience with patents, Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen attorneys have strong academic backgrounds coupled with practical experience in their technical fields. They represent inventors whose ideas range from the very simple to the highly complex.

The firm's technical and legal experience enables its attorneys to obtain and enforce patents, which they support through counseling and litigation when clients are challenged by competing interests. Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen is prepared to resolve the sophisticated issues that arise when antitrust law meets intellectual property.

777 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 276-0977

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C Intellectual Property

Nobody wants to be second.

The Intellectual Property (IP) Practice at WHD is committed to making you, your idea and your company number one.

We offer the extensive knowledge and experience necessary to provide clients with a full range of services. We represent both large and small, national and international clients in all areas of intellectual property law, and pride ourselves on meeting the diverse and ever-expanding needs of these clients.

Our Experience

Our attorneys have substantial experience representing clients in connection with procuring, maintaining, and enforcing intellectual property rights. Our technical experience extends to chemical products and processes, mechanical and electrical devices and methods, the life sciences, biotechnology, biochemistry, biometrics, software, computers and integrated circuits, and business methods.

Patent Law

The IP Practice utilizes its technical training and knowledge of patent law to assist clients both domestically and internationally in:
Negotiation of patent-related transactions and drafting of licensing, consulting, and confidentiality agreements;
Preparation and prosecution of utility and design patent applications - advising clients on the steps necessary to properly maintain their rights;

• Prosecution and oppositions before international patent offices;
• Interference, reissue and re-examination proceedings;
• Preparation of patentability, infringement, right-to-use and validity opinions;
• Patent infringement litigation and proceedings; (IP Litigation)
• Patent monitoring and maintenance before the PTO;
• Patent portfolio development.

555 East Wells Street Suite 1900, Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 273-2100
(414) 223-5000 (fax)