Practice Areas

Drafting and prosecution of utility and design applications. Office action responses, examiner interviews, appeals to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and coordination of foreign filings through local counsel.

USPTO practice is federal; clients are served nationwide.

Preparation of reexamination requests and representation of patent owners in reexamination proceedings. The work includes prior art investigation, substantial-new-question analysis, claim charting, and amendment strategy.

Reexamination can provide a lower-cost route than inter partes review for testing patent validity.

Patent due diligence supporting transactions, portfolio assessment, freedom-to-operate analysis, and license and technology transfer agreements.

This service is available to other law firms on a subcontract basis for deal support.

Machine learning is increasingly embedded in machines rather than running beside them: virtual sensors that replace physical hardware, state estimators that infer what cannot be measured directly, learned components inside control loops, and models that predict failure before it happens. These inventions are difficult to patent well. The technical improvement is real but it lives in the interaction between a trained model and a physical system, and claiming it requires understanding both.

The firm also prosecutes conventional mechanical, electrical, embedded software, and energy systems applications. This technology focus is a defined capability, not a limitation on the patent practice.