Patent Protection and Prosecution

The Intellectual Property (IP) Team at Holland & Knight has both the experience and technological understanding to advise and protect you in the increasingly complex area of patent litigation and prosecution. Working from a broad base of experience, our patent attorneys counsel our clients in a range of industries. From the most peripheral products and technologies, to the most cutting edge and business critical products, prosecuting, maintaining, asserting and defending patents touches virtually every aspect of your business. Developing a forward-thinking patent strategy through product development, patent procurement, due diligence and market analysis is an essential part of doing business.

To achieve those goals, you need an integrated law firm that has the ability to understand and guide you through your business and technology strategies, and the capacity to enforce those rights in a courtroom. Holland & Knight has the experience and perspective to understand and support your business goals and strategies and, with our experienced trial lawyers and their proven track record of success, the ability to enforce your rights in a courtroom.

Patent Litigation

Your company needs trial lawyers that can learn and teach complicated issues proficiently and can understand and stay abreast of the cutting edge legal issues in this rapidly changing landscape. Just as importantly, you need lawyers who understand judges and jurors, and are steeped in the nuances of trial strategy and courtroom dynamics. In other words, you need lawyers with a real track record, that have tried and won cases, but also know how to settle cases quickly and on favorable terms.

At Holland & Knight, our patent litigators are trial lawyers. Many of our lawyers have advanced technical degrees, while others team with patent attorneys steeped in the applicable technology. Regardless, for each case we handle, we develop a strategy unique to that case and that client’s business goals, and achieve the kind of results that brings our clients back to us for the next case.

Patent Prosecution

Holland & Knight understands that your patent portfolio is a critical part of your company’s assets. Our global network of patent attorneys includes lawyers with degrees in, among other fields, electrical engineering, computer sciences, mechanical engineering and chemistry. We cover a wide expanse of industries, from software and networking, to telephone and chip manufacturers, to medical devices, to biotechnology. Our patent attorneys get to know your technology and your business, which allows them to work efficiently and effectively to prosecute and maintain your portfolio.

In addition to prosecution work, our patent attorneys’ skills include:

• handling reexaminations, appeals, interferences and opposition proceedings before the USPTO and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• rendering freedom to operate and willfulness opinion letters
• counseling on design arounds and alternative strategies to either avoid or protect intellectual property