Intellectual Property

The attorneys in our Intellectual Property practice help clients protect and exploit the full value of their intellectual property, and our success on their behalf has placed us among the nation’s top IP firms in the areas of litigation, patents, and trademarks.

We offer comprehensive IP services, bringing sharp legal skills, deep knowledge of engineering, and excellent business judgment to every matter. Our aim is to offer consistently exceptional service and maximize our clients’ competitive advantages while minimizing their risks. The group’s services include:

  • Litigating patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and related antitrust matters
  • Negotiating and drafting all agreements necessary to develop, license, obtain, transfer, and commercialize technology
  • Preparing and prosecuting patent applications
  • Representing clients in patent interference proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Providing comprehensive brand management services
  • Providing infringement avoidance counseling
  • Conducting intellectual property due diligence
  • Providing alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation .

Our clients include:

  • Fortune 500 companies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Start-ups
  • Leading academic institutions
  • Individual inventors, in both cutting-edge and established technologies.

Our IP practice members are active in trade associations serving client industries, and we are recognized legal authorities in many of them. Our patent attorneys have diverse technical backgrounds, including degrees in chemical engineering, biotechnology, optical engineering, microelectronics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. Many members of our group have substantial experience as U.S. patent examiners or as practicing engineers in the commercial sector.

NP2.0 Website

In a Web 2.0 world, our clients are impacted almost daily by the laws affecting digital content and technology, which are changing at an unprecedented pace. To help our clients meet these new challenges, Nixon Peabody is committed to providing business counsel for our client’s Web 2.0 initiatives and to participating in the Web 2.0 phenomenon in the delivery of legal services.

Nixon Peabody’s NP 2.0 initiative brings together valuable information regarding intellectual property law, Internet law, and regulation and compliance in a digital world. Our NP 2.0 website is a collaborative, one-stop resource delivering all kinds of information related to copyright and Internet law, including:

  • Wiki articles on copyright and Internet law
  • A blog on recent copyright and Internet law cases and legal developments
  • Downloadable copyright forms (in PDF)
  • Helpful links
  • Upcoming events

We invite you to participate in NP 2.0 by posting a comment on one of our blog entries, or by applying for editing privileges in order to join our team of wiki collaborators. By contributing to our NP 2.0 website, you can help make it a valuable, collaborative resource for everyone.

Patent Reform Legislation

The practice has also put together the Nixon Peabody Patent Reform News & Resources website to provide information about proposed, pending, and passed patent reform legislation.
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