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Patent Attorneys and Intellectual Property Lawyers

Unique assets, processes and brand value are catalysts for business differentiation and drive competitive advantage in the marketplace. Protecting your intellectual property requires experience, depth and sophistication— hallmarks of Bond’s intellectual property practice.

Drawing on cutting-edge technical knowledge, and educational and industry credentials, our attorneys have amassed a considerable track record in helping clients obtain hundreds of patents and trademarks in recent years. We have also successfully litigated high-stakes IP cases in the areas of patent and trademark infringement actions and unfair competition and trade secret litigation.

Patent Attorneys and Intellectual Property Lawyers

You can look to our attorneys for counsel in the areas of domain name disputes, patent application preparation and prosecution, trademarks (global trademark protection, trademark availability searches and opinions, trademark oppositions and cancellations), and copyrights and trade secret protection. Based on years of experience assisting clients with IP issues in the context of business transactions, our attorneys are adept at resolving licensing, franchising, mergers and acquisitions and antitrust disputes.

Our registered patent attorneys hold bachelor’s and advanced degrees in fields such as physics, biology, chemistry, aerospace, electrical and optical engineering. Our attorneys have worked at research companies, engineering firms and large multinationals, developing a breadth and depth of technical and business knowledge, experience and insight.

Who Relies on Bond: The Geniuses and Game-Changers

Bond's Intellectual Property team represents some of the most recognized companies in world, including a blue-chip computer giant and a multinational technology pioneer of many of the world’s ground-breaking innovations. Bond also has a rich tradition of representing trailblazing academic and research institutions in IP matters. Our clients include leading public and private research universities; an R&D company focusing on defense and intelligence solutions; and health care research organizations. We also represent service-oriented businesses, manufacturers and financial institutions.

Our clients also include university spin-outs, entrepreneurial start-ups, and midsize to Fortune 100 technology companies. Bond clients are forging frontiers in these industries:

Aeronautics
Biotechnology
Chemical
Computer hardware
Electronics
Energy
Energy Storage
Financial services
Industrial
Internet
Manufacturing
Materials science

Medical devices
MEMS inertial sensors
Nanotechnology
Networking
Optics and optical systems
Photonics
Plasma processing
Semiconductors
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP technology

International Patent Prosecution — U.S. National Stage Entry

Our patent team regularly partners with foreign counsel and IP firms worldwide to manage the U.S. national stage entry of PCT applications and all subsequent prosecution before the USPTO. We understand that non-U.S. applicants and their local advisors need a trusted U.S. counterpart who is not only technically skilled and competent but also responsive, transparent, and cost-conscious. From preparing and filing national stage entries under 35 U.S.C. § 371, we work closely with foreign colleagues to develop claim strategies tailored to their client's commercial objectives and grounded in the requirements and nuances of U.S. patent law and practice.

Our attorneys bring deep technical backgrounds across the mechanical, electrical, software, and life sciences disciplines and decades of patent prosecution experience, enabling us to engage substantively with examiners and craft arguments that resonate. We provide clear, concise reporting at every milestone so that foreign counsel can keep their clients informed without unnecessary back-and-forth, and we structure our fee arrangements to give international clients predictability and value. Whether you are filing national stage entries or managing a global portfolio that includes U.S. counterparts, we are equipped to serve as a reliable, efficient extension of your team.

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Domain Name Disputes

We understand that our clients rely on the power of their trademarks and brand to communicate the unique quality and distinctiveness of their services. Our experience in preparing trademark opinions, and in filing, prosecuting and maintaining both U.S. and foreign trademark applications and registrations is demonstrated by the number of trademark matters we handle. Currently, we are managing over 2,000 active trademark files in countries around the world.

Our intellectual property attorneys follow the life of a mark from selection, clearance, prosecution, and maintenance to portfolio management, trademark audits, licensing, watch services, and litigation.

We regularly assist on freedom-to-operate and clearance studies and opinions, as well as infringement and validity studies and opinions.

Internet Law

We handle complex, high-stakes technology cases involving patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and unfair-competition matters. Our attorneys have litigated IP cases in courts nationwide including federal courts in Delaware, Illinois and Texas, and the International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.

We routinely handle patent and trademark protection proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We also work internationally through our network of associates and the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

Patent prosecution is a core practice area for our Intellectual Property team. We house 11 Registered Patent Attorneys who hold various Bachelor of Science degrees and several who hold PhDs or Masters degrees. In the past several years, we have helped our clients obtain hundreds of patents.

We usually file patent applications within 30-60 days from receiving an invention disclosure, although the timing depends on inventor availability and feedback. We closely monitor the bandwidth of the Intellectual Property team so that we have sufficient capacity to complete each patent application in a timely manner. We are also very proactive in seeking inventor input and have been praised by our clients for the speed in which we are able to get patent applications on file with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

We represent patent holders and third-party requesters in both inter partes review and ex parte reexaminations. We handle all procedural aspects of post-grant proceedings and advise clients on litigation strategies involving such proceedings.

For clients in the commercial, academic, nonprofit and government sectors, we negotiate and draft protection for IP rights including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright and technology know-how. We also advise clients on IP employment and IP consulting agreements.

All too often, companies react to trade secret theft and competitive threats due to employee departures, rather than position for it. Under these circumstances, they are faced with no choice but to engage in costly litigation.

Our Trade Secret Protection Audit assists companies in identifying critical intangible assets and guides the development of procedures, contract language, employment and non-disclosure agreements designed to protect them. Undertaken periodically, audits are able to help companies anticipate possible threats and reduce the areas of risk most often encountered in the course of conducting business. In performing this due diligence, our attorneys may also call upon other professionals in connection with the evaluation and testing of protocols related to the protection of computer data.

See the link below for more information on the Trade Secret Protection Audit.

In addition to the audit, our capabilities include: