Overview
Innovation is exhilarating, but its fruits can be jeopardized by strategic missteps or miscalculations, old-fashioned fraud, or even theft of valuable ideas. In an increasingly sophisticated marketplace our patent prosecution professionals provide strategic legal counsel for protecting your hard-won inventions, or patent rights you’ve acquired in your business strategy.
Foley Hoag is a top law firm with offices in Boston, New York, Paris and Washington, D.C. Our respected patent attorneys, patent agents and technology specialists help a wide variety of clients – including startups, Fortune 500 companies and the most honored names in academia – successfully develop and manage intellectual property to achieve their business goals. We provide them with a deep understanding of technology and science combined with proven legal expertise in patent, IP and business law. We have unsurpassed experience in prosecuting patents for new pharmaceuticals, chemical compounds, medical devices and biotech processes.
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Patent Prosecution
Our lawyers can work with you to procure and manage your patent portfolio domestically and internationally. Our patent prosecution professionals are backed by an experienced support staff of docketing specialists, foreign filing agents, patent assistants, and paralegals to establish worldwide protection for your innovations. Working closely with our global network of foreign patent lawyers, we prepare and prosecute your patent applications globally, including international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Due Diligence, Opinions & Patent Strategy
The attorneys at Foley Hoag are patent experts with broad-based capabilities. We help financial institutions, venture capitalists and traditional companies evaluate intellectual property through a variety of services, including patent portfolio audits, clearance studies and patent landscape analyses.
Foley Hoag patent prosecution professionals can also leverage the firm’s intellectual property litigation group and corporate lawyers for integrated intellectual property portfolio services, such as due diligence, opinions and intellectual property-related litigation. We deliver sophisticated scientific expertise combined with specialized legal training, spawning creative solutions to your intellectual property evaluation scenario.
Whether you are considering a merger or acquisition, looking to raise financing, or contemplating intellectual property litigation, Foley Hoag's highly trained professionals can guide you to your business goals through, around or over the legal and technical obstacles you’ll encounter.
