Intellectual Property Litigation

Our IP Litigation Difference

Whether defending or enforcing matters related to a client’s patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secrets, Walter Haverfield’s full-service approach is instrumental to protecting against would-be competitors and leveraging their competitive advantage. In other matters, our attorneys initiate challenges of validity related to a competitor’s intellectual property rights to ward off unfair competitive threats.

Whatever a client’s intellectual property litigation needs, we have the experience and knowledge to help, providing representation in all areas of intellectual property litigation, including:

• Enforcing patent rights in U.S. federal courts
• Defending against alleged infringement of U.S. patents in U.S. federal courts
• Protecting patent and trademark rights for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to block the importation of goods infringing on U.S. trademarks registrations and copyrights
• Filing complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking orders to block the importation of goods infringing on U.S. patents
• Enforcing trademark rights in U.S. federal courts
• Enforcing copyrights in U.S. federal courts
• Protecting trade secrets in state courts and U.S. federal courts
• Re-examining patents before the USPTO
• Cancelling trademark registrations before the USPTO
• Reviewing inter-party and post-grant validity of patents before the USPTO