Intellectual Property
The Intellectual Property Law group of Nelson Mullins provides comprehensive patent, trademark, and copyright services to a large base of domestic and international corporations. Clients having worldwide patent and trademark portfolios select the Firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) lawyers to manage and enhance those portfolios, protect their intellectual property rights, and avoid the pitfalls of infringing the intellectual property rights of others. Nelson Mullins IP lawyers also have significant experience in representing clients in contractual proceedings and in IP litigation in both the United States and overseas in Europe, Asia, and South America.
The Nelson Mullins IP group includes a number of attorneys who are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Attorneys and technical specialists from the Firm are scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, many with Ph.D. degrees, masters, and bachelor degrees in technical disciplines such as electrical engineering, computer science, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, immunology, and mechanical engineering. The group includes both former Patent Examiners and attorneys who have served as judicial clerks with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears patent-based appeals. In addition, the Firm’s IP lawyers include adjunct intellectual property law professors at local law schools and authors of various publications. These attorneys know how to engage scientists in technical language, but they also know how to relate their clients’ cases to judges and juries.
In addition to its IP litigation practice, the Firm is experienced in ensuring that a client’s intellectual property is protected, whether by patents, trademarks, copyrights, or trade secrets. The IP group maintains a large docket of both domestic and international patent application filings and also operates a trademark portfolio support practice. Both its patent prosecution and trademark prosecution practices are based on efficient and time-tested practice parameters designed by attorneys with deep experience in managing private practice and in-house international filing programs.
Nelson Mullins IP lawyers often work in conjunction with other sections of the Firm or other attorneys around the nation to enhance the value and efficiency of client service well beyond the bounds of a traditional intellectual property practice. For example, the experience and resources of the Firm’s nationally recognized litigation section are particularly valuable when IP litigation arises. Moreover, Nelson Mullins lawyers handle venture capital transactions on a routine basis and frequently negotiate complex technology transfers, licenses, and acquisitions in a wide variety of industries.
When confronted with intellectual property issues in a rapidly changing worldwide economy, it is critical to choose lawyers having broad-based experience and knowledge in both technology and the law. This is why clients from many of today’s high-profile industries, including those in electronic commerce, telecommunications, computer software, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, as well as universities and clients from the more traditional manufacturing sectors, seek counsel from our Firm.
Nelson Mullins IP attorneys understand both a client’s business and its technology. In addition, by using the Firm’s leading-edge information management systems, we are able to respond to client needs and issues quickly and effectively. From the beginning of an issue, our IP attorneys seek to find business solutions to clients’ problems. Sometimes that requires us to demonstrate our litigation management and trial skills in the courtroom, but many times it allows us to resolve IP issues without litigation and in a manner that still results in an enhancement to our client’s IP portfolio. Whatever your IP needs, the Nelson Mullins experience provides the means for achieving your goals.
Our IP attorneys have specific knowledge and experience in the following areas:
Clean Technology
Electrical & Computer
Life Sciences
Litigation
Mechanical
Medical Devices
Patents
Software
Trademarks & Copyrights
Transactions