Intellectual Property
Your business depends on your competitive edge, and your competitive edge is your intellectual property.
How you protect intellectual property can decide your success in government contracting. Our attorneys combine government contracts and intellectual property law, including a registered patent attorney.
Intellectual Property services
Data Rights
Ownership and protection of information created under contracts and assistance awards, across agencies and funding types.
License Agreements
Agreements that limit the use and distribution of your valuable IP and software.
Patent Protection
Inventions made with government funding, and opinions on infringement, validity and freedom to operate.
Software Protection
Analyzing funding sources, agencies, IP clauses and development history to protect your software.
Subcontractor IP Rights
What subcontractors can protect, and where the limits are, under government funding.
Technical Data
Ownership and distribution limits for scientific and technical information produced with government funds.
Trade Secrets
Protecting trade secrets in contracts and federal assistance awards across agencies.
Selected matters
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
- OTAsIdentified and segregated critical intellectual property under OTA agreements.
- LicensingDeveloped the IP strategy for a medical administration system and drafted its licensing agreements.
- Patent waiversRepresented clients seeking advance patent waivers from the Department of Energy.
- Data rightsDrafted a special technical data license for synthetic data set software.
- Development contractsNegotiated IP provisions for a mail sorting machine development contract.
- PatentsManaged patent portfolios and negotiated royalty agreements.
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