Intellectual Property & Technology
Contacts
Jeffrey J. McMahan Elizabeth A. Kleinberg
Practice Profile
We work with clients to establish, develop, manage, and protect their IP portfolios. Comprised of both transactional and litigation attorneys, the IP and Tech Group assists clients with their IP needs in the context of new business formation, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, due diligence, asset-based financing, licenses and agreements, employment agreements, higher education, e-commerce, and litigation.
Our practice includes trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, licensing, IP audits, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, new business formation, e-commerce and internet issues, employment agreements addressing anticipated IP issues in the workplace, and litigation.
We help nonprofits and institutions in education and health care identify and address their IP issues, including the review and drafting of IP policies, the negotiation of IP rights in research agreements, and the issues arising from the use of copyrightable materials in publications, classrooms and distance learning programs.
We work with the firm’s Litigation Group to enforce clients’ IP rights as well as to defend them. We have represented clients in cases concerning trademark infringement, copyright infringement, trade secrets violations, and violations of non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-inducement agreements. We have partnered with nationally prominent patent litigation firms to represent clients in patent infringement litigation.