CareersPatent Services: U.S. & Worldwide
Intellectual Property
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Our Patent Service Difference
We have extensive experience in numerous technical fields with respect to obtaining and maintaining patent rights, including all phases of mechanical, electrical, software, business methods, and chemical engineering fields.
The industries we serve are equally as broad and include:
- Land, air, and water transportation vehicles
- Electronic appliances
- Athletic equipment
- Tools in numerous categories
- Building components of all types
- Processing of natural resources
- Financial services
- Aerospace equipment
- Manufacturing
- High-tech medical and health products and processes
- Food service
- Gaming
Walter Haverfield’s team of seasoned patent professionals has a strong track record for protecting, defending, and enforcing the intellectual property interests of our clients, whether they are independent inventors, startup companies, universities, or Fortune-rated corporations. We counsel clients in virtually every phase of the patent process, from patent searches to patent preparation and filing. To maximize the benefits and understand the landscape, we also provide patentability searches, freedom-to-operate reports, and non-infringement legal analysis and opinions.
Our experience and full-service bench strength allow us to help clients create effective patent strategies and manage domestic, as well as international, patent portfolios of all sizes. We have worked with clients located in nearly every corner of the world and therefore understand the various cultural and regulatory differences that exist abroad.
Our patent services include:
- Patent clearance
- U.S. patent preparation and prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- Preparation and prosecution of applications in foreign patent offices
- Preparation and prosecution of designs in the U.S.
- Preparation and prosecution of designs in foreign patent offices
- Management of patent portfolios in the U.S. and worldwide
Experience
- Preparing and prosecuting hundreds of utility and design patent applications
- Representing a client in the semiconductor industry in an ex parte reexamination proceeding, resulting in a reissued patent
- Working with clients in various technology industries including telecommunications, electrical and computer science, gaming, robotics, computer software, e-commerce, digital signal processing, semiconductor chip fabrication, financial services, medical devices, and the mechanical arts
- Preparing and prosecuting utility and design patents for high-profile domestic and international clients
- Preparing patent availability, infringement analysis, and freedom-to-operate reports
- Performing patent searches related to patent availability and patent infringement
- Managing all aspects of international and foreign patent applications including communicating with foreign associates
- Preparing thousands of replies to Patent Office Actions arguing for the patentability of patent applications
- Drafting over 100 patent applications ranging in technology fields from artificial intelligence, wireless communications, antenna design, semi-conductors and memory chip design, industrial automation, online banking systems, encryption, software-defined networking, and network function virtualization
- Preparing and filing over 50 new patent applications for a variety of clients having expansive technical fields
- Prosecuting numerous patent applications in the fields of medical devices, imaging devices, financial software, business methods, and more
